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Things were so different when I first became interested in technology back in 1992! True, I was a teenager then, and I firmly believed that the US was that terrible country presided over by the arch-conservatives Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Viewed from Europe, this was a country where sick people died in the streets because no one would lif
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
As the violence continued, President Clinton attempted one last-ditch effort to resuscitate the peace process. In late December 2000, Clinton presented his proposal, “The Clinton Parameters,” which proposed that the new Palestinian state would include 94 to 96 percent of the West Bank (though the parameters did not mention Gaza, Clinton clarified i
... See moreDaniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
... See moreClinton and Gore were inaugurated on January 20, 1993. At the beginning of the first term, they developed a "two-page agreement outlining their relationship". Clinton committed himself to regular lunch meetings; he recognized Gore as a principal adviser on nominations and appointed some of Gore's chief advisers to key White House staff positions. C
Another lever was accountability. As the governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton was confronted early on with an impossible equation whereby his constituents wanted more public spending, but they hated any politician that raised taxes to finance that spending. Clinton experienced the bitter results: after becoming governor in 1978, he lost his reelectio
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Bill Clinton was moderating this panel. On it were Mauricio Macri, a former businessman who had defeated Argentina’s
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
The Clinton administration, led by Lawrence Summers, signed into law the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, which ripped down the firewalls that had been established by the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act. Designed to prevent the kind of meltdown we are now experiencing, Glass-Steagall established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. It se
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
The Republicans shut down the federal government and forced Bill Clinton to balance the budget, something that would have been regarded as a fringe daydream even a year prior. Taking matters one step further, they then impeached the man as well. To this day, the corporate press claims (and perhaps even believes) that the Republicans were more upset
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
The next year, on September 29, 1987, Reagan attached a signing statement to a debt bill, declaring his right to interpret it as he wished, saying the president could not be forced “to follow the orders of a subordinate.” While few people paid attention to it, this statement was a shot across the bow of American democracy. It advanced the theory of
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