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Mike Signer

Mike Signer is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute.

The Greening of Massachusetts

Much to Mitt Romney’s chagrin, Massachusetts has been in the news a lot recently as the birthplace of President Obama’s new health care reforms. Despite…

How to Beat the Demagogues

The following is an excerpt from Mike Signer’s column published this weekend in the Daily Beast: In the last few days following the passage of…

Is Obama Too Thoughtful?

The following is an excerpt from Mike Signer’s column published this weekend in the Daily Beast: “[W]e need a commander in chief, not a professor…

Stand with Westphalia

The “aught” decade that just ended was bracketed by 9/11, perpetrated by al-Qaeda terrorists who had enjoyed havens in Sudan and Afghanistan, and a thwarted…

Obama’s Budget Delivers on Energy

Elections really do have consequences. After years of virtual inaction from the Bush administration on a clean economy, the president’s new budget is a politically…

State of the Union: The Philosophical President

“There was quite a bit of lecturing, not leading.” This is what Sarah Palin said about Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech. Yes, I…

Vision of a State: Ultra-Federalism in Afghanistan

President Obama’s provocative, considered decision to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan was a major moment in his presidency. By the president’s own description, the…

The Incredible Hulk in Copenhagen

Among some members of the chattering class, it’s become something of a meme to assert that the Obama administration is too deferential to its opponents…

The Neoconservative Père et Fils

PPI Senior Fellow Mike Signer has written a piece in Dissent magazine on Irving Kristol, his son, Bill, and the morphing of neoconservatism from an…

Drive Like a Jetson

When you watch an episode of “The Jetsons,” what gets you isn’t so much that Elroy wore an antenna on his head or that the…