Grist: Watching the collapse of the effort to create a cap-and-trade plan for carbon emissions in 2009-10 was profoundly depressing. Reading Theda Skocpols insightful history [PDF] isn`t much more fun - but its certainly useful, in a Santayana kind of way. Since this is a mistake we cant afford to repeat (the planet is running out of spare presidential terms and congressional sessions), Skocpol performs a real service by helping figure out what went wrong.
The first thing to be said, I think, is that...