The new politics of welfare is the same old sabre-rattling
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Comment is free: Polly Toynbee: Labour's record on getting people into work is admirable. So why pander to tabloid panics about benefit cheats?
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The details of the economic slump have changed since the â92 presidential race, but the main story line remains much the same.
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Comment is free: Martin Kettle: Ministers are afraid to assert the principles that underpin the wider contract between efficiency and fairness
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With the elections over and Democrats poised to take control on Capitol Hill, the Bush administration is making a fresh push to persuade them to help rein in the rising costs of Social Security and government health-care programs by offering to open talks with "no preconditions."
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For presidential candidates, the post-Watergate system of financing campaigns with public money has become the great divide.
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Chicago Tribune - In the summer of 1996, for instance, the Massachusetts senator was agonizing over his vote on President Clinton's plan to end welfare as the nation knew it.
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The Democratic presidential candidates have moved from the politics of piling on to the politics of unity.
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Sex, lies and power games are just the latest symptoms of a Republican party adrift from its ideals
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On social and economic policy, President Bush and Senator John Kerry present a philosophical contrast that is one of the starkest in modern presidential campaigns.
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Too often, the consequence of a tight presidential race is the sacrifice of principle to the win-at-all-costs ethos. It should thus come as no surprise that the Bush administration is once again jettisoning prudent trade policy for political calculation.
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November comps were the same-old same-old, but change is likely on the way.
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All the tactics of a political campaign &#151; TV ads, grass-roots organizing, town hall meetings and polling &#151; are being tapped to influence opinion and pressure lawmakers in the explosive debate on Social Security.
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Some are starting to wonder whether Mayor Daley's ambitious pledge of four years ago was more politics than policy
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A fresh round of mass demonstrations over proposed cuts in welfare spending is set to take place.
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New Labour is no longer the party of shiny, happy people, and it is no longer fashionable. This may be no bad thing: the party will learn patience and gain intellectual strength.
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As the two parties brace for the coming debate over restructuring Social Security, polls and focus groups for both sides have shown that voters -- especially older ones, who vote in disproportionately heavy numbers -- distrust any change that has the word "private" attached to it.
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Bush's push to reform Social Security and other programs frames a deeper clash between individualism and safety net.