<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Harold Meyerson</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/meyersonharold?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><description>Harold Meyerson</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Remember the Raise?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2952-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2952-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The markets are anxious. There's every sign that the world's investors have grown nervous about the continued ability of the American consumer to keep the economy perking along. Companies that sell big-ticket items are floundering: General Motors reported  a $1.1 billion quarterly loss yesterday.  Conversely, drug and utility stocks are doing all right; companies that rely on nondiscretionary spending remain a safe bet.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greetings From Mexistan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48138-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48138-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It may be just about the most inspiring sight imaginable: hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the main square of some capital city, demanding democratic self-rule. "They're doing it in many different corners of the world," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last week, "places as varied as Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan and, on the other hand, Lebanon, and rumblings in other parts of the world as well. And so this is a hopeful time."]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future of the Past]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28417-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28417-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  At first glance, it looked to be a triumph of the human spirit. There, at a joint news conference last week in Jerusalem, stood the patriarchs of the rival faiths of the Middle East  --  Israel's chief rabbis, the deputy mufti of Jerusalem, leaders of the Catholic and Armenian churches  --  Jews, Muslims and Christians, together at last.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[CAFTA's Profit Motive]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11310-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11310-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Spreading democracy is one thing. But do we really want America to be known for spreading the pricing practices of our drug companies?]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Target of Opportunism]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58466-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58466-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   For Tom DeLay, Terri Schiavo came along just in the nick of time. "One thing that God brought to us is Terri Schiavo, to help elevate the visibility of what is going on in America," DeLay told a group of Christian conservatives last Friday.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tackling Arnold]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38566-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38566-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Phil Angelides looks like a nerd. Gangly and elongated, earnest in manner, liberal in politics, he is in almost every way the polar opposite of the current governor of California  --  whom, Angelides announced yesterday, he is seeking to replace in next year's gubernatorial election.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Candidate Ready for His Closeup]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22111-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22111-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   LOS ANGELES  --  Someone once asked Jean Renoir, the great French filmmaker whose flight from the Nazis plunked him down in Los Angeles in 1941, why he'd never made a film about his adopted city. After all, even after World War II ended, Renoir continued to split his time between France and L.A.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor's Inner War]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5696-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5696-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   LAS VEGAS -- The era of bad feelings has descended on American labor.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[ISO: Working-Class Democrats]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45577-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45577-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   How do the Democrats win back the allegiance of the white working class? The problem may be deeper than even the most pessimistic Democrats fear it is.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[L.A. Picks a Mayor]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27627-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27627-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   LOS ANGELES -- The street lamps are festooned with banners reminding people about the Academy Awards, as if anyone here needed reminding. The police are scrambling to mollify the African American community after the latest South Central car chase, in which a cop shot and killed a black motorist who turned out to be a 13-year-old boy. And the race for mayor, though Election Day is less than three weeks away, hasn't really dented the public's consciousness, which in matters of politics is characteristically dent-resistant.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting for Islamic Law]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9445-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9445-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Suppose, as a result of George W. Bush's decision to go to war there, that Iraq turns into Iran? Just what do we do then?]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assault on Social Security]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55666-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55666-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Tonight the president of the United States will come before Congress and call for the repeal of the New Deal.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Voice for All of Us]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36713-2005Jan25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36713-2005Jan25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In those tumultuous days when I was in college, back in the late '60s, Johnny Carson was the establishment. Network television was hopelessly establishment, and "The Tonight Show" was its apotheosis. We had our own music, our counterculture, and when some of its performers popped up on late-night TV, why, that was just one more instance of Herbert Marcuse's repressive tolerance. Showcase and defang, that's what Carson was up to.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Texans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19407-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19407-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Forty years ago tomorrow, Lyndon Johnson took the presidential oath on the steps of the Capitol, and American -- and inaugural -- politics have not been the same since.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[President of Fabricated Crises]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2304-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2304-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Some presidents make the history books by managing crises. Lincoln had Fort Sumter, Roosevelt had the Depression and Pearl Harbor, and Kennedy had the missiles in Cuba. George W. Bush, of course, had Sept. 11, and for a while thereafter -- through the overthrow of the Taliban -- he earned his page in history, too.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'Other America'  May Be Coming Back]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48620-2005Jan4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48620-2005Jan4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Once upon a time, in a land that stretched from one great sea to another, half the elderly were poor. When their work life was done, they retreated into their rented room or their trailer, or their room at their children's home, or even the county poorhouse. Their rulers looked at their plight and concluded that, "at least one-half of the aged -- approximately eight million people -- cannot afford today decent housing, proper nutrition, adequate medical care . . . or necessary recreation."]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energetic New Faces . . .]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32609-2004Dec28.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32609-2004Dec28.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   This was a year the Democrats would just as soon forget. George W. Bush's victory may not have signaled a Republican realignment so much as a consolidation of the GOP's Southern base. But in the most high-stakes election we've had in quite some time -- we are  talking about repealing the New Deal, are we not? -- Democrats suffered a stunning defeat.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bullish, Bearish Bush]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18009-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18009-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  That was a looser President Bush who came before the press on Monday. The election was over, John Kerry was now history's footnote, and Bush's cockiness was back in full force. No longer did the press corps' questions inspire fear or rage. Bush sidestepped them with ease when he wanted to; he almost seemed to enjoy sidestepping them.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Labor, Tough Choices]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A133-2004Dec14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A133-2004Dec14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   After the Democratic debacle of 1994, when Newt Gingrich's Republicans took control of Congress, no one predicted that it would be labor, of all the dejected Democratic constituencies, that would subject itself to fundamental change.  Yet that's exactly what happened. John Sweeney, then president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), waged a successful insurgent campaign against longtime AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, promising to turn around the labor movement's flagging political and organizing programs.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternally Rumsfeld]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45508-2004Dec7.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45508-2004Dec7.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/meyersonharold</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>  Rumsfeld faced calls for his resignation this summer over the abuses at the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq. Republicans close to the White House said the decision to retain him was driven by the calculation that replacing him would appear to be a concession that the administration made mistakes in Iraq.</em>]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item></channel></rss>
