The Times rewrites the present

Last night I sat down with the New York Times Magazine to give Matt Bai’s long, long cover story on “The Clinton Referendum” a look. I’d read good things about Bai and thought I’d see what he had to say about the Clintons. I made it a couple hundred words into the article before reading this:

Listening to [Bill Clinton] talk, I found it hard not to wonder why so many of the challenges facing the next president were almost identical to those he vowed to address in 1992. Why, after Clinton

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