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Regulatory Improvement Commission: A Politically-Viable Approach to U.S. Regulatory Reform

The natural accumulation of federal regulations over time imposes an unintended but significant cost to businesses and to economic growth. However, no effective process currently…

Ending the Endless Election Season

National elections in the United States now stretch out over nearly 24 months, with each new electoral cycle seeming to start up almost as soon…

A National Infrastructure Bank: A Road Guide to the Destination

Download the entire memo. President Obama has proposed a National Infrastructure Bank, a simple declarative sentence that left most listeners wondering what he meant. The…

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Obama Took His Time In Calling Boston Marathon Attack ‘Terrorism’

McClatchy’s Anita Kumar quotes PPI President Will Marshall on the President Obama’s response to the Boston marathon attack: In his first term, the president was criticized…

America Turns Left On Social Issues, But Not On Government

In his article for McClatchy Newspapers on “Social Issues and Public Opinion”, David Lightman quotes PPI President Will Marshall: Some saw Barack Obama as a…

President Obama, Republicans Fight the Class War

In his article for Politico on “Class Warfare,” Jonathan Martin quotes PPI president Will Marshall: Will Marshall, head of the centrist Democratic think tank Progressive…

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“Cut and Invest” vs. Austerity

President Obama’s new budget attempts to define a progressive alternative to conservative demands for a politics of austerity. Having just returned from a gathering of…

Fiscal Cliff Deal Could Show the Way Toward a Grand Bargain

Writing for the Daily Beast, Will Marshall argues that Obama is in a strong position to challenge the new Congress to pass a fiscal grand…

Election Watch: 2012 Is in the Books!

I won’t bore readers with much about what they already know: Obama won; Democrats increased their margins in the Senate; Republicans lost House seats but…

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