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  • print • June/July/Aug 2015

    The Moynihan Family Circus

    How a fifty-year-old report on the black family and poverty continues to distort American social policy • Stephanie Coontz

    ... men. Moynihan sharply denounced the “racist virus” that afflicted America, and later, as a US senator, he broke with other Democrats, including President Bill Clinton, by opposing the Personal...

  • print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2014

    The Solipsist State

    A reexamination of the rationale for the invasion of Iraq stresses the ideological eclipse of reason • Scott Beauchamp

    ... make an easy target for liberals, but they don’t explain why nearly the entire liberal establishment (Hillary Clinton, Bill Keller, Madeleine Albright, John Kerry, et al.) supported the war, too. A...

  • interviews • June 27, 2014

    Bookforum talks with Thomas Beller

    Aviel Kanter

    ... acknowledged the sense of unease or of not being on solid ground. At the same time, I didn’t want to approach the material like I was a detective, or Kenneth Starr investigating Bill Clinton, or the...

  • print • June/July/Aug 2013

    Born to Run Things

    A new study suggests that America’s corporate elite lacks an organizing sense of mission • Daniel Gross

    ... company CEOs were unable to unite behind comprehensive reform. Reflecting on industry’s inability to play a useful role in the 1993 debate over Bill Clinton’s push for universal health care, Mizruchi...

  • print • Apr/May 2013

    The Return of the Repressed

    An East German novelist grapples with a forgotten past • Marjorie Perloff

    ... elect Bill Clinton, explained to me how hard it was for liberals, never mind people on the left!, to find suitable jobs in recent years, how stale and demoralizing...

  • papertrail • January 27, 2014

    Jonathan Mahler on the fetishization of long-form articles; Nixon's assessment of Philip Roth

    ...://mediamatters.org/mobile/blog/2014/01/23/how-the-new-york-times-magazines-hillary-clinto/197726> such as Biden, Cuomo, Bill Clinton. Jarhead author Anthony Swofford will judge this year’s Jeff Sharlet...

  • print • Dec/Jan 2014

    The Gospel According to Norman

    Two new books wrestle with Mailer’s myths and his legacy • Christian Lorentzen

    ... mayor in 1969 (he’d also declared and then aborted a campaign nine years earlier, and out of frustration with Bill Clinton considered running in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1996), and...

  • print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2013

    City on the Make

    A close-in look at the seamy world of DC’s power elite • Jim Newell

    ... Virginia--whose “principal identity is as a professional best friend to Bill Clinton. . . . To deprive McAuliffe of the words ‘Bill Clinton’ would be like depriving a mathematician of numbers.” Under...

  • print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2013

    Dead Center

    Two new accounts of the 2012 campaign show just how Team Obama gave America the business • Thomas Frank

    ... for example, about Obama’s “hyperrational” personal style, his peculiar relationship with Bill Clinton, and his disastrous belief, supposedly either inspired or reconfirmed by an Ezra Klein article...

  • print • Apr/May 2012

    Obama’s World

    How the White House crafted a new foreign-policy doctrine without anyone really noticing • Michael Lind

    ... American triumphalism shared by the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush alike. “Obama . . . had, it turned out, a different definition of America’s leadership role than the one to which...

  • papertrail • September 21, 2012

    Sep 21, 2012 @ 12:56:00 am

    ... affair with Bill Clinton. The book is supposed to contain three things that an earlier book about the scandal didn’t: “more salacious details about Lewinsky and Clinton, ostensible complaints by...

  • print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2012

    Look Out Below

    Two new books chart the failures of elite rule • Jim Sleeper

    ... true, as Nation correspondent Chris Hayes argues here, that growing numbers of Americans who’ve worked hard and played by the rules, as Bill Clinton put it, are deciding that the rules have been...