…given Rush Limbaugh’s despicable slurring of the Georgetown student advocating for full coverage of contraception under the Health Care law, notice that Reagan’s signing of the 1986 tax reform act…

…finally be ticking up to high noon. The modern GOP—the party of Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushes—is staring down its own demographic extinction. Despite assorted and sadly wishful pooh-poohing on…

…lower revenue and larger budget deficits. There are no two ways about this – as Ronald Reagan discovered in the early 1980s. (In our new book, White House Burning, we…

…It would force significant reductions in the overall amount allocated to Defense, an area that has fed incessantly on revenues since Reagan’s priority on militarization, coupled with Bush II’s preemptive…

…government in future years. (As Clinton found in 1993, when he was told the “bond markets” (i.e. the Reagan tax cuts) wouldn’t allow him to enact all his policy ideas….

…made private equity’s harsh treatment of jobholders possible also made possible the WalMart “revolution”. That is, reaganomics adopted a pro-Business viewpoint, based on a distorted notion of what markets are…

…policies, essentially since Reagan, that favor the rich–from deregulation to relaxation of anti-trust to reduction in tax burdens to privatization to deunionization. To add further rich-friendly policies to our tax…

In the New Yorker comes this note lost in the shuffle of the NH primary. I sense a pervasive theme of bigger government interference: Since Ronald Reagan, Republican Presidents (and…

…unfavorably with the 1970s. The highly touted Reagan years, for instance, saw much slower growth than, say, the big government LBJ administration or the even bigger government New Deal years….

…Ratio — the ratio of the average income of the nation’s richest 1 percent to the median household income — has skyrocketed since Ronald Reagan took office. In 1980 the…