A new book has sparked debate with its provocative claim that progressive public policy in the US is broken<\/p>\n
Is progressive public policy in America broken? Do many left-leaning laws actually make life more expensive for struggling people? Is regulatory red tape hindering growth and innovation? Have Democratic-run cities, such as New York and San Francisco, become giant billboards against liberal governance?<\/p>\n
These arguments wouldn\u2019t sound out of place in a policy paper from a conservative thinktank. Yet their newest champions are two of America\u2019s best-known left-leaning journalists, the New York Times\u2019 Ezra Klein and the Atlantic\u2019s Derek Thompson \u2013 and they believe the left is overdue for a reckoning of sorts.<\/p>\n
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