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Mark Schmitt

Mark Schmitt is Director of the program on political reform at the New America Foundation and former executive editor of The American Prospect.

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Righting the GOP

On Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

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All About Obama

Five books consider the Obama presidency.

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Forum Responses

Response: Schmitt response to Anxieties of Democracy

It didn’t get much attention, but July 26 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed by George H. W. Bush in 1990. Having transformed both physical infrastructure and...
Mark Schmitt

Response: Homer Simpson Politics

Homer Simpson Politics It is tempting to read Martin Gilens’s essay for its thorough confirmation of what I think I know about politics: that campaign finance distorts policy, that economic inequality reinforces...
Mark Schmitt

Response: Stories and Stats — Forum Response

Elections create stories, it’s true, moments that bring a sense of narrative structure to our world, reinforcing either our hopes (that virtue is rewarded, that majorities agree with us) or fears, or,...
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