New York Times :: Clinton's One Big Idea
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> The progressives of a century ago, like Teddy Roosevelt, recognized
> that technology was inexorably expanding economic activity from the
> regional to the national level, and they responded by carrying
> economic regulation to the national level. They passed national
> antitrust laws and food-and- drug laws and gave new forms of
> government support to national labor unions.
>
> The analogous insight today is that with technology driving
> economic organization well beyond national scope, progressive
> governance has to catch up. Many on the left still haven't seen
> this, but Mr. Clinton has.

Beats the Cold War.
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 11:03 PM