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SYNDICATED COLUMNS & ARTICLES

" Op-Ed Contributor: The Dead Center "New York Times, January 29, 2004.

" Democrats Target Deficit "USA Today, January 27, 2004.

" Marriage Aid That Misses the Point "The Washington Post, January 22, 2004.

" It's Jobs, Stupid "San Jose Mercury News, January 18, 2004.

" O'Neill Has Done His Country a Favor "Newsday, January 16, 2004.

" Nice Work If You Can Get It "Wall Street Journal, December 26, 2003.

" High-Tech Jobs Are Going Abroad! But That's Okay "Washington Post, November 2, 2003.

" Tax Wealthy to Pay for Iraq War "USA Today, September 15, 2003.

" Time Bomb Ticks Beneath the Economy "LA Times, August 29, 2003.

" The Honeymoon Continues For George "The Observer (London), August 03, 2003.

" Deflation Risks Bigger Than Optimists Let On "USA Today, June 23, 2003.

" Get a Job "New York Times, May 19, 2003.

" The Economy Is on the Move -- Downward "LA Times, May 01, 2003.

" Reelection? The Staying Power of an Odd Recession "The Financial Times, April 21, 2003.

" Reelection? Father Didn't Know Best "Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2003.

" The State of Our Citizenship "Boston Globe, January 23, 2003.

" Bush Proves He's an Upper-Class Act "Los Angeles Times, January 07, 2003.

" Tame the Deficit Hawks "Wall Street Journal, January 06, 2003.

" A Winning $700-Billion Balancing Act "Los Angeles Times, November 27, 2002.

" Can the Democrats Be Saved? (Part 2) "Slate.com, November 10, 2002.

" Can the Democrats Be Saved? (Part 1) "Slate.com, November 10, 2002.

" For Democrats Adrift, Some Fiscal Therapy"The Washington Post, November 10, 2002.

" Quick Tax Relief for an Ailing Economy "The New York Times, October 15, 2002.

"Stop 'Spinning' and Start Fixing the Economy" The Los Angeles Times, November 16, 2001.

"Lost Jobs, Ragged Safety Net" The New York Times, November 12, 2001.

"The Global Economy Is Teetering" The Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2001.

"Take a Guess: Who's Going to Pay for the Terror Economy?" The Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2001.

"Mobilizing American Industry for War" The Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2001.

"How Did Spending Become Our Patriotic Duty?" The Washington Post, September 23, 2001.

"Out of the Box" The New Republic, September 10, 2001.

"How Long Can Consumers Keep Spending?" The New York Times, September 2, 2001.

"Surplus Silliness" The Wall Street Journal, August 29, 2001.

"Democrats Are Falling Into the Austerity Trap" Los Angeles Times, August 24, 2001.

"Electrosoft: A Fable for Today" Los Angeles Times, July 2, 2001.

"Back of the Hand to the Safety Net" Los Angeles Times, June 21, 2001.

"The Political Center, Straight Up" The Washington Post, June 17, 2001.

"Bush is Glued to His Script " Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2001.

"Drop Your Standards" The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 11, 2001.

"Little Guy Left in the Lurch" The Washington Post, April 23, 2001.

"There's No Big Binge in Half a Point" Los Angeles Times, April 19, 2001.

"Use the Budget Surplus for Universal Health Care" Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2001.

"Corporate Power in Overdrive'" The New York Times, March 18, 2001.

"The Democrats Aren't 'Just Resting'" The Washington Post, March 11, 2001.

"What Kind of Party for the Democrats?" The New York Times, February 25, 2001.

"Bad Economy Would Not Be All Bad for Bush" LA Times, January 16, 2001.

"Working, But Not 'Employed'" The New York Times, January 9, 2001.

"The treadmill of the new economy: Interview by A J Vogl, " January 1, 2001

"Forget the Sweet Talk: The Political Wars Continue " LA Times, December 29, 2000.

"Bush Will Be Feeling Tugs Right And Left " December 27, 2000.

"A Tax Cut for Those Who Need It" The Washington Post, December 27, 2000.

"Amid the Mess, It's the Same Ol' Same Ol'" LA Times, November 16, 2000.

"A Clear Win for Alan Greenspan" Financial Times, November 10, 2000.

"How Selective Colleges Heighten Inequality" The Chronicle Review, September 15, 2000.

"The Case for 'Progressive' Vouchers" The Wall Street Journal, September 6, 2000.

"Look Who Demands Profits Above All" Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2000.

"You can't have it both ways, AlÖ" The London Observer, August 21, 2000.

"Your Job Is Change" Fast Company, August 21, 2000.

"How Bouncing Bush has Cornered Gore" The London Observer, August 13, 2000.

"One Education Does Not Fit All" The New York Times, July 11, 2000.

"Microsoft Case - The Transformation Of Government From Regulator Of The Old Economy To Definer Of The New" The Washington Post, June 11, 2000.

"It's a Hot Economy, but Not for Janitors, Others" The Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2000.

"The Democrats May Be Hoist on Clinton's Own Petard" The Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2000.

"How Challengers Go From 'Wow' to 'Oops'" The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2000.

"Why the editors are wrong. The Case for Bill Bradley" The New Republic Special Endorsement Issue, March 6, 2000.

"Coolidge's Democratic Disciples" The New York Times,February 8, 2000.

"Don't Democrats Believe in Democracy?" The Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2000.

"The Two Great Forces of the Future" The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000, December, 1999.

"Good and Bad Nationalism" The Boston Globe, November 29, 1999.

"...And Does Anyone Know How to Define an 'American' Interest?" The Washington Post, November 21, 1999.

"A Shareholder, and a Citizen" New York Times, November 5, 1999.

"Help the World Connect" Wall Street Journal, October 4, 1999.

"Coping With the Shortage of High Tech Workers" ComputerWorld, September 6, 1999.

"The Other Surplus Option" New York Times, August 11, 1999.

"Despite the U.S. Boom, Free Trade Is Off Track" LA Times, June 18, 1999.

"No Easy Answers To Easy Credit Fallout" USA Today, June 8, 1999.

"Trading Insecurities" Financial Times, May 20, 1999.

"To Lift All Boats," We don't all start from the same place. But we can make the going easier. The Washington Post, May 16, 1999.

"In Kosovo, Power of Tribe Outweighs Power of Technology," USA Today, April 12, 1999.

"Where Clinton's Third Way Went Wrong," Harper's Magazine, April 1999.

"JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES; His radical idea that governments should spend money they don't have may have saved capitalism ," Time 100 Special Issue, March 29, 1999.

"Best place to invest surplus: our children," USA Today, March 3, 1999.

"The Wrong War," The Financial Times, March 4, 1999 (London).

"Regulation is out, Litigation is in," from USA Today, February 11, 1999.

"Talking Back to Greenspan," from The New York Times, Monday, January 26, 1999.

"Clinton’s leap in the dark: How the plight of the 'next-to poor' has distorted the reform of welfare," from the London Times Literary Supplement, Friday, January 22, 1999.

"Use Budget Surpluses For People's Real Needs," from The Los Angeles Times, Friday, January 22, 1999.

"Trial ties up Senate? Don't worry; Congress is irrelevant," from USA Today, Thursday, January 7, 1999.

"Three-legged trick to square vicious circle of job losses," from The Guardian, Tuesday, January 5, 1999.

"Europe's Great Leap of Faith," from The New York Times, Monday, January 4, 1999.

"The Euro: A Warning Letter from America," from The Observer, Sunday, January 3, 1999.

"Consumers Won't Pay... Yet," from The Los Angeles Times, Friday, December 4, 1998.

"The Real Policy Makers," from The New York Times, September 29, 1998.

"The President Has No Presidency To Defend," from The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 1998.

"The Future of Clinton's Past," from The Nation, September 7-14, 1998.

"The Sham Of Saving Social Security First," from Harpers, June, 1998.

" Democracy And Megacorporations May Be Mutually Exclusive," from The Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1998.

"Gates Can't Hoard All The Keys For Himself," Detroit Free Press, May 7, 1998.

"A Tobacco Challenge," from The Boston Globe, April 12, 1998.

"The Care and Feeding of the Rich," from The New York Times, April 5, 1998.

"A Better Way to Raise the Minimum Wage," from The Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1998.

"Broken Faith: Why We Need to Renew the Social Compact," from The Nation, February 16, 1998.

"When Naptime Is Over," from The New York Times Magazine, January 25, 1998.

"Deflation, the Real Enemy," from The Financial Times, January 16, 1998.

"Putting The Surplus, If Any, To Work," from The New York Times, January 9, 1998.

"Party Favors: In the raising of campaign funds, the currency is power by association." The New Yorker, October 13, 1997.

"Sky and Ground: What the U.P.S. strike delivered." The New Yorker, September 8, 1997.

"Trade Accords that Share the Wealth ," The New York Times, September 2, 1997.

"UPS and the Down-waging of Blue-Collar America ," The Boston Globe, August 20, 1997.

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PUBLIC RADIO'S MARKETPLACE COMMENTARIES

" The Next S&L Crisis " May 5, 2004.

" The College Cut-off " April 28, 2004.

" Why Are We Still Bailing Out the Airlines? " March 31, 2004.

" Outsourcing And America's High-Tech Future " March 24, 2004.

" Greenspan Redux " March 17, 2004.

" The Town Drunk " March 10, 2004.

" Pumping And Dumping " March 3, 2004.

" No Free Lunch " February 25, 2004.

" Political Heat " February 18, 2004.

" Democratic Economics " February 11, 2004.

" The Balloon Clause " February 4, 2004.

" Who Owns New Knowledge? " January 28, 2004.

" Promoting Marriage " January 21, 2004.

" Its Still Jobs, Stupid " January 14, 2004.

" Republican Pork " December 24, 2003.

" Iraq's Debt " December 17, 2003.

" Steelyard Blues " December 3, 2003.

" Seniors Up, Juniors Still Down " November 26, 2003.

" Watching Over Fannie and Freddie " November 18, 2003.

" Why Factory Jobs Are Disappearing -- All Over " November 5, 2003.

" Drug Money " October 29, 2003.

" The Ethical Collapse Continues " October 22, 2003.

" Dollar Diplomacy " October 15, 2003.

" California Hangover " October 8, 2003.

" The Ongoing Scandal On The Street " October 1, 2003.

" A War Tax On The Very Wealthy " September 24, 2003.

" Bringing Back Manufacturing " September 17, 2003.

" Poor Nations Need To Trade " September 10, 2003.

" School Daze " September 3, 2003.

" A Dirty Air Act " August 27, 2003.

" Media Ownership Redux " August 20, 2003.

" A National Minimum Vacation " August 13, 2003.

" Verizon " August 6, 2003.

" Have Corporate Earnings Really Turned Around? " July 30, 2003.

" The Recession's Over! Or Is It? " July 23, 2003.

" Baseball's Favorite Game " July 15, 2003.

" Housing Trouble " July 9, 2003.

" Jobs Are Everything " July 2, 2003.

" The New Drug Benefit: A Squandered Opportunity For Reform " June 25, 2003.

" Human Capital Is Our Greatest Asset, And We're Squandering It " June 11, 2003.

" Sheltering Everything Except America " June 04, 2003.

" New College Grads Don't Need Another Degree " May 21, 2003.

" Going It Alone On The Dollar " May 14, 2003.

" The Real Economic Choice Ahead " May 07, 2003.

" Pulling Together? " April 30, 2003.

" Whose Oil? " April 23, 2003.

" The Home As Nest Egg " April 16, 2003.

" Now That The War Is Over, It's The Economy, Stupid. " April 09, 2003.

" Rebuilding Iraq " April 02, 2003.

" Wall Street And The War " March 26, 2003.

" America Goes It Alone " March 19, 2003.

" Good Corporate Governance Isn't Always Good Corporate Citizenship " March 12, 2003.

" Oil Prices And Deflation " March 5, 2003.

" Betting The Ranch " February 26, 2003.

" How Long Will This Bear Last? " February 12, 2003.

" The President's Deficits " February 05, 2003.

" The President's New Interest In Domestic Policy " January 29, 2003.

" What's Happening To Our Schools " January 22, 2003.

" This Jobless Recovery Is Worse Than The Last " January 16, 2003.

" How Not To Stimulate The Economy " January 08, 2003.

" The Holiday That Won't Stop " January 03, 2003.

" Tooth Fairies and Economics Plans " December 18, 2002.

" The End of the Christmas Bonus " December 11, 2002.

" Extend Unemployment Benefits " December 04, 2002.

" The New Era of Big Government " November 27, 2002.

" It's Already Christmas in Washington " November 20, 2002.

" Cut the Payroll Tax" November 13, 2002.

" Bush Isn't Happy This Morning" November 6, 2002.

" The States in the Hole" October 30, 2002.

" Wall Street Can't Afford to Backtrack on Reform " October 23, 2002.

" Why The Economy Isn't Being Talked About, Although It's On Everyone's Mind" October 09, 2002.

"Back To Normal?" December 14, 2001.

"Learning a Hard Lesson about Company Stock Plans" December 6, 2001.

"What's Happening at the Grass Roots" November 16, 2001.

"Why Bush's Trade Agenda Is Going Nowhere" November 8, 2001.

"Will Terrorism Stall Globalization?" November 2, 2001.

"The House Stimulus Package Is An Outrage" October 25, 2001.

"Underlying Strengths?" October 19, 2001.

"Sacrifice Or Spend?" October 11, 2001.

"The Fiscal Response Is Too Tepid" October 5, 2001.

"Circuit Breakers For Layoffs" September 28, 2001.

"A Stimulus Right Now, Aimed at Lower-Wage Workers" September 27, 2001.

"American Optimism and Consumer Confidence" September 18, 2001.

"Finding our Enemy" September 13, 2001.

"Security and Privacy" September 12, 2001.

"The Blame Game Over The Stock Bubble" September 9, 2001.

"The Butcher Is Back" August 24, 2001.

"Prescription Drugs and More" August 16, 2001.

"The New Post-Industrial Struggle" August 10, 2001.

"American Vacations" July 20, 2001.

"An Unemployment Recession?" July 5, 2001.

"What Happened to Marriage," June 21, 2001.

"Why You're Spending More Time in Airports ," June 8, 2001.

"Cutting Taxes?" June 7, 2001.

"A "C" To Success," May 24, 2001.

"Russian Capitalism," April 26, 2001.

"The Real Economic Drag," April 12, 2001.

"No Escape," February 2, 2001.

"American Sweatshops," January 18, 2001.

"Look Who's Missing From The President-Elect's Economic Summit," January 4, 2001.

"Scrooge is Alive and Well and Living in America," December 21, 2000.

"Giving Thanks," November 23, 2000.

"Who Won the Presidency," November 9, 2000.

"What the Candidates Arenít Telling You about Social Security," October 16, 2000.

"Ten-year Budgets Donít Exit," October 12, 2000.

"When Government Buys and Sells," September 28, 2000.

"Who's Setting the New Rules?" September 14, 2000.

"Bad Actors," August 31, 2000.

"The Real Convention," August 17, 2000.

"A Republican Convention in The City of Brotherly Love," August 3, 2000.

"What They Won't Tell You About Taxes," July 20, 2000.

"America the Stingy," July 6, 2000.

"Prescription Drugs for the Elderly, Politics, and My Birthday," June 22, 2000.

"When the Fed Picks the Presidents," June 8, 2000.

"Coolidgeomics," May 25, 2000.

"Prison Labor," May 11, 2000.

"The Candidate's Non-Debate about Social Security," April 27, 2000.

"The Real Target," April 13, 2000.

"What Happened to Loyalty?," March 30, 2000.

"A Plea to Alan Greenspan," March 16, 2000.

"The Corporate Tax Shelter Industry," March 2, 2000.

"The Marriage Penalty," February 17, 2000.

"What Expansion?," February 3, 2000.

"The Free Trade President," January 20, 2000.

"Dump Dumping," January 6, 2000.

"Carded," December 24, 1999.

"What Seattle Means," December 9, 1999.

"A Thanksgiving Feast," November 24, 1999.

"Auditors Asleep," November 11, 1999.

"The New Careerism," October 28, 1999.

"What If China Devalues?," October 14, 1999.

"Love Affair Between Big Business and Big Labor," September 30, 1999.

"What If The Bubble Bursts?," September 16, 1999.

"Labor Day," September 2, 1999.

"Budget Surplus?," August 19, 1999.

"Immigration Law and High Tech Jobs," August 5, 1999.

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BOOKS

Reason: Why Liberals will win the battle for America (2004)

I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society (2002, Beacon Press)

The Future of Success (2001, Knopf)

Locked in the Cabinet (1997, Knopf)

The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism (1992, Vintage)

The Resurgent Liberal: And Other Unfashionable Prophecies (1991, Vintage)

The Power of Public Ideas (ed.) (1990, Harvard University Press)

Tales of a New America: The Anxious Liberal's Guide to the Future (1988, Vintage)

New Deals: The Chrysler Revival and the American System (1986, Penguin)

The Next American Frontier (1983, Penguin)

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