RECENT OLD FAVORITES PROFILES FUN STUFF WRITTEN WITH (OR ABOUT) MY WIFE   RECENT Nixon's the One—to Imitate on Education New York Times, December 28, 2008 Why Obama Should Nationalize School Funding A Little Read... Memo to Obama: Don't narrow your options Politico, December 8, 2008 How to avoid the mistake presidents don't realize until it's too late Read... A Pre-Nup for the West Wing Washington Post, December 6, 2008 How Barack Obama Can Put an End to Kiss-and-Tell Memoirs Read... The Upside of Downward Mobility Fortune, December 22, 2008 Fortune's feature excerpt from The Tyranny of Dead Ideas Read... How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Trillion Dollar Deficits Fortune.com, November 20, 2008 The title, with a nod to Dr. Strangelove, pretty much says it all Read... Health Care Next! The Big Money, Slate's new business site, September 24, 2008 Why universal coverage looks downright cheap given everything else we're throwing money at Read... Obama Doesn't Have to Run as a Liberal Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2008 Some "Sister Souljahs" on policy to boost Obama's crossover cred Read...   OLD FAVORITES Opening the Capitalist Mind Fortune, March 19, 2007 We already have a huge welfare state hidden on corporate payrolls—time to move it where it belongs Read... The Revolt of the Lower Upper Class Fortune, October 20, 2006 The coming class war between the merely affluent and the ultrarich Read... Is Persuasion Dead? New York Times, June 4, 2005 Confessions of a desperate columnist Read... Start a War, No Money Down! New York Times, May 14, 2005 The Republican infomercial we never saw Read... Wanted: Responsible Demagoguery New York Times, May 11, 2005 Being a Democrat means being better even when you're bad Read... What Is the Democrats' Secret Number? Fortune, February 23, 2005 Dissecting the tacit assumptions in the Democratic mind Read... The Fix Everything Plan Fortune, January 5, 2005 How to shrink the deficit, save Social Security, and salve our social ills in a few strokes Read... Listen to My Rabbi's Wife Fortune, September 29, 2004 Want a foolproof plan to generate 100% voter turnout? Make elections lotteries. Read... My Cross-Examination of Alan Greenspan My syndicated column, March 17th, 2004 Every prosecuting columnist has his fantasy Read... Clinton Military Triumphs in Iraq! My syndicated column, April 9, 2003 When Rush Limbaugh ranted on this one, 3000 angry dittoheads emailed with kind suggestions Read... I Don't Know—A Poet's Lesson for Politicians My syndicated column, January 1, 2003 Read... My Enron Confession My syndicated column, January 16, 2002 A little schadenfraude goes a long way Read... The Empathy Gap My syndicated column, September 19, 2001 Thoughts on our national soul the week after 9/11 Read... Act II Slate, March 25, 1998 A one act playlet in which Monica goes film noir Read... Special Sauce Slate, August 6, 1998 Another one act playlet that reveals what Bill and Monica were really doing Read... It's Not the Adultery or the Lies that Matter My syndicated column, January 26, 1998 Why everyone was confused about Clinton's real sin Read...   PROFILES The Poor Man's Capitalist Sunday New York Times Magazine, July 1, 2001 A profile of Hernando de Soto, based on three days I spent with him in Haiti Read... He Just Said No—to the Drug War Sunday New York Times Magazine, August 20, 2000 A profile of then-New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, the highest ranking official ever to call for partial drug legalization - -and an amazing athlete, as you'll see... Read... Unpublished profile of Gene Sperling November 1999 Originally rejected by the New Republic because it was "too favorable," then run in shorter form Read...   FUN STUFF WRITTEN WITH (OR ABOUT) MY WIFE Get a Life! Fortune, November 28, 2005 A cover story Jody and I wrote together on how to restructure senior jobs so that people don't need to work 24/7 if they don't want to. Jody is the most interesting thinker in the country on these issues, and the force behind this piece. Read... Listen to My Wife New York Times, May 25, 2005 Indispensable guidance from the Unreasonable Woman Read... Singled Out Sunday New York Times Magazine, April 18, 2004 The story of how Jody and I discovered we were uninsurable in the individual market for health coverage, despite being (we thought) relatively young and healthy. This piece really touched a nerve. Read... My wife.com The New Republic, January 17, 2000 Scenes from domestic life Read... Propped Up The New Republic, December 30, 1996 Why our marriage is a window into an enduring democratic dilemma Read...