In 1936, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won reelection to a second term in one of the biggest landslides in American history. The outcome was a clear mandate in support of FDR's New Deal—an agenda of large-scale social and economic programs administered by the federal government. Sixty years later, in 1996, William Jefferson Clinton also won reelection to a second term, after declaring earlier that year that "the era of big government was over." How did the Democratic Party get from FDR to Bill Clinton? Now that the Democrats are out of the White House, will they continue the move to the center that Clinton initiated, or will they try to reinvigorate the traditional liberal base of the Democratic Party? Does that traditional base still exist?

The Bush plan, even after its full enactment, will still leave the incredibly complicated nightmare of the federal income tax largely in place. Let us hope that, once President Bush can claim victory for his tax cut, he will turn his attention to real tax reform in the coming years, emulating President Putin’s bold vision of a low, simple, flat tax.

What currently makes British politics so different from American politics?

Both NEA and AFT political contributions lean heavily toward the Democratic Party