RECENT OLD FAVORITES PROFILES FUN STUFF WRITTEN WITH (OR ABOUT) MY WIFE   RECENT Time For A Male Anti-Sex Pill The Daily Beast, June 25, 2009 In the wake of the Sanford scandal, the only hope for American public life not becoming an endlessly embarrassing comic opera now lies with Big Pharma. The nation needs a new Manhattan Project—and this one should have bipartisan support. Read... The GOP's Deficit Bluff The Daily Beast, June 19, 2009 If Republicans keep criticizing Obama for running up deficits, Clinton budget office veteran Matt Miller says, he should tell them to put their money where their mouth is: Pass a law. Read... Will Business Kill Health Care? The Daily Beast, June 16, 2009 As Obama kicks off his summer drive for health reform, Matt Miller, who was in the White House during Hillarycare, on why corporate America wants to stay at the heart of the welfare state. Read... Obama's Health Care Kickoff The Daily Beast, May 12, 2009 Even if yesterday's vague pledge by health-care industry executives to slash costs is realized, our system would remain radically inefficient. Read... Time To Scrap Employer-Based Health Care Public radio's "Marketplace", May 11, 2009 The idea that we should look to our company, not our country, for health care, makes no sense. Read... Obama's Bipartisan Triumphs The Daily Beast, April 28, 2009 Contrary to conventional wisdom, says former Clinton budget advisor Matt Miller, Obama has reached across the aisle in his first 100 days. He's advancing GOP health, energy, and education goals—so why aren't the Republicans supporting them? Read... Wanted: CEOs Against CEO Greed The Financial Times, April 21, 2009 Wall Street's reputation is rightly in ruins, but if non-financial business leaders don't take unconventional action, business will suffer more broadly. Read... Obama's Secret Plan to Raise Taxes The Daily Beast, April 8, 2009 When Obama returns home, former Clinton adviser Matt Miller says he'll face a mounting budget crisis‹and will have to come clean about needing to raise our taxes. Read... The Fed Calls the Shots The Daily Beast, March 22, 2009 For all the arrows aimed at Tim Geithner right now, it's really Ben Bernanke's arsenal of tricks that can manipulate the economy—and his surprise move the other day was just a warm-up. Read... Give The Bonuses Back—Or Else The Daily Beast, March 17, 2009 President Obama has promised to use "every single legal avenue" to retrieve the bonuses AIG paid to its executives. Why doesn't he just demand their return? Read... Relax, Rich People! The Daily Beast, March 12, 2009 No matter what the GOP says, Obama's new taxes are hardly radical. In fact, he's giving you a better deal on your mortgage than the middle class. Read... How to Shake Down the Banks The Daily Beast, March 6, 2009 From prison, Bill Lerach, America's premier class-action lawyer, has a roadmap to get all that bonus money back from the Wall Streeters who got us into this mess. Read... Four Bombshells Obama Just Dropped The Daily Beast, February 27, 2009 Ignore the misinformed analysis of President Obama's new budget and focus on these four hope-infused talking points. Read... Here Comes Obamanomics The Daily Beast, February 26, 2009 The revolution—metaphorical and fiscal—hidden in Obama's new budget. Read... Obama Wants to Move the Center Left The Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2009 The president's liberal critics miss the bigger picture. Read... You Don't Deserve to Be Rich The Daily Beast, February 22, 2009 The sooner we shed our illusion that people end up financially where they deserve to, the faster we'll fix the economy. Read... It's 1928 Again: Prepare To Change Your Thinking Politico, February 11, 2009 Between 1928 and 1940 the way we viewed eveything changed. In the next few years it will again. Read... Take It From McCain's Advisers: The GOP Would Raise Taxes Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2009 A political party shouldn't rely on a dead idea Read... Nixon's the One—to Imitate on Education New York Times, December 28, 2008 Why Obama Should Nationalize School Funding A Little Read... Memo to Obama: Don't narrow your options Politico, December 8, 2008 How to avoid the mistake presidents don't realize until it's too late Read... A Pre-Nup for the West Wing Washington Post, December 6, 2008 How Barack Obama Can Put an End to Kiss-and-Tell Memoirs Read... The Upside of Downward Mobility Fortune, December 22, 2008 Fortune's feature excerpt from The Tyranny of Dead Ideas Read... How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Trillion Dollar Deficits Fortune.com, November 20, 2008 The title, with a nod to Dr. Strangelove, pretty much says it all Read... Health Care Next! The Big Money, Slate's new business site, September 24, 2008 Why universal coverage looks downright cheap given everything else we're throwing money at Read... Obama Doesn't Have to Run as a Liberal Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2008 Some "Sister Souljahs" on policy to boost Obama's crossover cred Read...   OLD FAVORITES Opening the Capitalist Mind Fortune, March 19, 2007 We already have a huge welfare state hidden on corporate payrolls—time to move it where it belongs Read... The Revolt of the Lower Upper Class Fortune, October 20, 2006 The coming class war between the merely affluent and the ultrarich Read... Is Persuasion Dead? New York Times, June 4, 2005 Confessions of a desperate columnist Read... Start a War, No Money Down! New York Times, May 14, 2005 The Republican infomercial we never saw Read... Wanted: Responsible Demagoguery New York Times, May 11, 2005 Being a Democrat means being better even when you're bad Read... What Is the Democrats' Secret Number? Fortune, February 23, 2005 Dissecting the tacit assumptions in the Democratic mind Read... The Fix Everything Plan Fortune, January 5, 2005 How to shrink the deficit, save Social Security, and salve our social ills in a few strokes Read... Listen to My Rabbi's Wife Fortune, September 29, 2004 Want a foolproof plan to generate 100% voter turnout? Make elections lotteries. Read... My Cross-Examination of Alan Greenspan My syndicated column, March 17th, 2004 Every prosecuting columnist has his fantasy Read... Clinton Military Triumphs in Iraq! My syndicated column, April 9, 2003 When Rush Limbaugh ranted on this one, 3000 angry dittoheads emailed with kind suggestions Read... I Don't Know—A Poet's Lesson for Politicians My syndicated column, January 1, 2003 Read... My Enron Confession My syndicated column, January 16, 2002 A little schadenfraude goes a long way Read... The Empathy Gap My syndicated column, September 19, 2001 Thoughts on our national soul the week after 9/11 Read... Act II Slate, March 25, 1998 A one act playlet in which Monica goes film noir Read... Special Sauce Slate, August 6, 1998 Another one act playlet that reveals what Bill and Monica were really doing Read... It's Not the Adultery or the Lies that Matter My syndicated column, January 26, 1998 Why everyone was confused about Clinton's real sin Read...   PROFILES The Poor Man's Capitalist Sunday New York Times Magazine, July 1, 2001 A profile of Hernando de Soto, based on three days I spent with him in Haiti Read... He Just Said No—to the Drug War Sunday New York Times Magazine, August 20, 2000 A profile of then-New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, the highest ranking official ever to call for partial drug legalization - -and an amazing athlete, as you'll see... Read... Unpublished profile of Gene Sperling November 1999 Originally rejected by the New Republic because it was "too favorable," then run in shorter form Read...   FUN STUFF WRITTEN WITH (OR ABOUT) MY WIFE Get a Life! Fortune, November 28, 2005 A cover story Jody and I wrote together on how to restructure senior jobs so that people don't need to work 24/7 if they don't want to. Jody is the most interesting thinker in the country on these issues, and the force behind this piece. Read... Listen to My Wife New York Times, May 25, 2005 Indispensable guidance from the Unreasonable Woman Read... Singled Out Sunday New York Times Magazine, April 18, 2004 The story of how Jody and I discovered we were uninsurable in the individual market for health coverage, despite being (we thought) relatively young and healthy. This piece really touched a nerve. Read... My wife.com The New Republic, January 17, 2000 Scenes from domestic life Read... Propped Up The New Republic, December 30, 1996 Why our marriage is a window into an enduring democratic dilemma Read...