by Warren Brown | Jan 30, 2012
So much of Washington is political theater, meant to do nothing except entertain, advance political ambition, or provide political cover. Consider what happened here last Wednesday. The augustly titled House Subcommittee on Government Reform and Regulatory Affairs,...
by Warren Brown | Oct 20, 2011
The trouble with our winners-losers society is that it often misses the point of the game. Consider the recently concluded talks between the United Auto Workers union and Detroit’s car companies. Critics of those agreements contend that the manufacturers got four...
by Warren Brown | Sep 28, 2011
Conventional wisdom says this city makes nothing, that we are just a place of words and bureaucracy. Conventional wisdom is not quite right. Washington manufactures crises—big-time crises, completely unnecessary crises, costly crises, the kind that drain money and...
by Warren Brown | Sep 16, 2011
I have been hoping that the United Auto Workers and the Detroit car companies would reach quick, amicable agreements in their current round of contract negotiations. Even though Chrysler and GM – where the union seems to be initially focusing its attention – can not...
