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Should Public Policy Center on Society’s Well-Being?

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David Yamada
Should public policy adopt core values of well-being, human dignity, and compassion? Should it embrace outcomes that are therapeutic versus those that are anti-therapeutic? Should it reject measures that are based largely on economic productivity, with little to no regard as to how wealth and resources are distributed and deployed?

The Green New Deal We Need Is Profoundly Conservative

Green New Deal Marchers in Detroit

Charles J. Whalen
When congressional Democrats unveiled their Green New Deal resolution in early 2019, the agenda was praised by pundits on the left and vilified by their counterparts on the right. But observers across the political spectrum seemed to agree that the resolution was “radical” and perhaps even “socialistic.” Both sides had it wrong. The essence of that proposal, now at the center of Biden’s climate policy, is not only the Green New Deal we need; it’s profoundly conservative.

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Should Public Policy Center on Society’s Well-Being?

The Biographer and the Politician

The Commentator Interviews Jamie Raskin

The Green New Deal We Need Is Profoundly Conservative

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