RECENT OLD FAVORITES PROFILES FUN STUFF WRITTEN WITH (OR ABOUT) MY WIFE   RECENT THE GREAT RECESSION IS JUST THE BEGINNING The Washington Post, July 21, 2010 Read... AMERICA'S BUSINESS INGRATES The Washington Post, July 14, 2010 Read... JOBS NOW, DEFICITS . . . SOON! The Washington Post, July 8, 2010 Read... WE MUST RATCHET BACK BANKERS' PAY The Washington Post, July 1, 2010 Read... A CASE FOR 'RADICAL CENTRISM' The Washington Post, June 24, 2010 Read... THE GORE DIVORCE: TALK ABOUT INCONVENIENT TRUTHS The Washington Post, June 4, 2010 Read... RACE TO THE TOP: A SPRINT WHEN WE NEED A MARATHON The Washington Post, June 3, 2010 Read... BUSINESS CAN BE A FORCE FOR GOOD The Washington Post, May 27, 2010 Read... WHAT DO THE PRIMARIES MEAN? BEATS ME The Washington Post, May 20, 2010 Read... A BONUS SONG ON THE BRITISH ELECTION... IT'S CAMERON! mattmilleronline.com, May 13, 2010 Read... BUYOUTS, NOT BAILOUTS, FOR TEACHERS The Washington Post, May 13, 2010 Read... THE 'NO GOOD OPTIONS' ERA: WE'RE ALL GREEK NOW The Washington Post, May 5, 2010 Read... HOW GOLDMAN MIGHT SEEK REDEMPTION The Washington Post, April 29, 2010 Read... GOLDMAN SACHS AND THE REVOLT OF THE LOWER UPPER CLASS The Washington Post, April 21, 2010 Read... JACK BAUER GOES SUBPRIME! The Washington Post, April 15, 2010 Read... DID ROBERT RUBIN APOLOGIZE? YOU BE THE JUDGE. The Washington Post, April 9, 2010 Read... RESCUING CAPITALISM FROM WALL STREET The Washington Post, April 8, 2010 Read... THE REPUBLICAN CRACKUP The Washington Post, March 31, 2010 Read... PREEXISTING CONDITIONS FOR THE GOP The Washington Post, March 24, 2010 Read... TIME TO BRING OUT THE BUDGET ASTERISK The Washington Post, March 17, 2010 Read... HEAVEN CAN WAIT: THE HEALTH-CARE EDITION The Washington Post, March 10, 2010 Read... WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM SINGAPORE'S HEALTH-CARE MODEL The Washington Post, March 3, 2010 Read... GOING FOR HEALTH-CARE GOLD: WHO'S GOT THE BETTER GAME PLAN? The Washington Post's online edition, February 24, 2010 Read... IT'S NOT OUR DEBT THAT'S UNSUSTAINABLE, IT'S OUR POLITICS The Washington Post's online edition, February 17, 2010 Read... AMERICA THE UNGOVERNABLE? The Huffington Post, January 28, 2010 Read... The Bad Ideas Epidemic The Daily Beast, January 26, 2010 After a year in office, Obama still hasn't moved America beyond dead ideas on health care, financial markets, and taxes. The case for why we need new thinking. Read... Top Ten Things Democrats Should Do Before Abandoning Ambitious Health Care Reform The Huffington Post, January 23, 2010 Read... Test Your Understanding Of American Politics The Huffington Post, January 20, 2010 Happy new year, I guess....my haiku take on the real lesson of Massachusetts... Read... Time for A Big Debt Deal With China The Huffington Post, December 17, 2009 In an age of relative American decline, private placement of U.S. Treasury debt with the world's leading Communist power is an embarrassment whose time has come. Read... The GOP's New Health-Care Hoax The Daily Beast, December 12, 2009 Shame on John McCain-and every other Republican who says the Senate health deal would foist single-payer on the country. Read... Congress can deal with jobs and deficit together The Financial Times, December 11, 2009 Call it "the 3 per cent solution". Read... Liberals, Rejoice! The Daily Beast, December 9, 2009 The Senate deal that's killed the public option isn't cause for tears. Why the left's dream of universal coverage is finally within reach—and what the Democrats need to do next. Read... The Runaway Senate The Daily Beast, November 20, 2009 When Democrats can't even agree to debate the health care bill, the president is no longer in charge of his party. Why Obama needs to crack the whip. Read... Does Obamacare Hurt The Young? The Daily Beast, November 17, 2009 It's the latest GOP attack: Obama's plan will force the young and healthy to subsidize the old and sick. But, big corporations are already doing just that. Read... The Democrats' Midterm Nightmare The Daily Beast, November 7, 2009 As House leaders push to pass health-care reform, a major political headache looms: The bill's impact won't be felt until long after already anxious voters go to the polls in 2010. Read... Why The "Trigger" Will Work The Daily Beast, October 25, 2009 Health care's public-option "trigger" is great news for liberals and conservatives alike, because it gives both groups exactly what they want. Read... A Real Employee Free Choice Act The Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2009 Big business is fighting the most important health-care reform. Read... Scaring Grandma: The Right's Shameless Gambit The Daily Beast, September 28, 2009 Once the party of fiscal sanity, the Republicans are now wailing that the Democrats' health-care plan cheats seniors out of money. Read... Why Liberals Should Drop The Public Option The Washington Post, September 8, 2009 Why we can have progressive reform even if there is no public option... Read... Lessons For Obama From Ted Kennedy's Noble Flops The Financial Times, September 7, 2009 What the president can learn from Kennedy's failure to make the traditional liberal sale. Read... Kerry Can Save Obamacare The Daily Beast, August 14, 2009 Obama's plan isn't winning over the 85 percent of Americans who already have insurance, The Daily Beast's Matt Miller writes. But the big loser of the 2004 campaign has a great idea. Read... Take A Chill Pill The Daily Beast, August 8, 2009 No matter what the critics say, health-care reform isn't in trouble yet. Matt Miller says the bill should get through Congress and offers a prescription for making it easier to swallow. Read... America's Health Care Should No Longer Be Tied To Jobs The Financial Times, July 31, 2009 Keeping employers at the center of the welfare state imperils health reform. Read... To Save Health Reform, Cut Congress' Benefits New York Times, July 22, 2009 A surprising way to make universal health care affordable. Read... Right is wrong to attack Obama's health plan Financial Times, July 13, 2009 Why Republicans are wrong to attack Obama's plan... Especially when he's really on the verge of enacting Romney-McCain reforms. Read... Business Should Let Go Of Health Care Public Radio's Marketplace, July 10, 2009 President Obama is hoping for a vote on the health care overhaul bill before Congress goes on its August recess. Commentator Matt Miller says business owners must also rethink their approach to health care. Read (or Listen)... Why Prevention Won't Cure Health Care Fortune, July 9, 2009 Washington says prevention is one of the keys to paying for universal coverage. It's not. Read... 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...