...n of Republicans is waiting to deliver on a much-hyped manifesto for change. To top it off, the president’s prospects for reelection aren’t looking particularly promising either. That this could be said of two Presidents—Bill Clinton in 1994 and Barack Obama in 2010—says two things. Mark Twain was probably right when he said that history doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes. But given the points of similarity that do exist, Obama should expect the wo...
by Marissa Tjartjalis Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been accused of many things throughout her political career. Yet until her visit to Egypt this past July, being a “Secret Islamist” was not one of them. Pulling up to the Four Seasons in Cairo, however, Clinton encountered a number of surprising allegations. “Hillary Clinton is the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood,” one sign read in the midst of screaming protesters. “Stop the...
...check. The author of the idea check will often insert his own ideas into the supposedly objective report. Idea checking has manifested itself most recently in a fact check done by the Associated Press on former President Bill Clinton’s speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. In his speech, Clinton said, “When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics, but in the real world, cooperation works b...
...on of culpability does not necessarily reveal the motivations underlying the apology itself. More specifically, they lie in the history of prior presidential apologies, or lack thereof, made by such men as Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and Bush himself. After famously stating that he did not have relations with “that woman,” Clinton suddenly found himself impeached and at risk of being evicted from office. Only at that point did Clinton give...
...though Millard lost to Carolyn B. Maloney, polling helped the campaign staff target voters with direct mail campaigns because they could identify which voters agreed or disagreed with Millard on particular issues, such as the Clinton tax cut, gun control, and whether to build a garbage incinerator in Brooklyn. Still, Millard emphasized that he never changed his position on the issues based on the polling. “I certainly never said ‘well, gosh, I us...
...s of reform were shifted, placing greater emphasis on unemployment insurance and old age benefits. Consequently, the Social Security Act passed without including health insurance. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt through Bill Clinton brought us Medicare and Medicaid, the rise of a “health maintenance organization” (HMO) system, and other revisions, but healthcare still fails to cover all who need it. The healthcare crisis has come to a head in th...
Okay, so I’ve put it off as long as possible, and there isn’t much time left now. But this was going to have to happen eventually so here goes. Veepstakes. The No-Goes Michele Bachmann From Wikimedia Commons Michele Bachmann went from making headlines for her bold Tea Party leadership two years ago to utter disgrace in her unwarranted questioning of Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, for ties to the Muslim Brotherhood....
...“I had a career in mind after I cleaned up and got my children back. Without [career training] I wouldn’t be where I am today.” In 1996, vowing to produce “the end of welfare as we know it,” Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). That same year, Peter Edelman, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Huma...
...the borders of new post-Soviet states. Pioneering academics like Bales, who was a sociology professor at Roehampton University in London at the time, developed the methodology to “count” modern slaves. At the very end of the Clinton administration, the U.S. government passed its first comprehensive anti-slavery law, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (HR 3244), which strengthened existing trafficking laws in the United States by defi...
...ht, and no worse way to disappoint than by stepping forward and revealing you have nothing to say. To be fair, Moore’s absence from literature’s limelight did end a bit before A Gate at the Stairs. In June 2008, after Hillary Clinton had left the Presidential campaign, Moore wrote a brief, weird appreciation of Clinton for New York, filled with cloudy metaphors and contradictions. She compared Clinton to, alternately, an animated raccoon, Mick Ja...
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