...This chapter focuses on the three assaults on regulation, highlighting the efforts in the executive branch to rein-in the regulatory agencies, and in Congress to pass omnibus regulatory reform legislation. The assaults proceeded along many dimensions as the business community's influence...

...This chapter focuses on the progressive scholars and activists who have made impressive gains in creating narratives and carrying their message to the people with considerable financial help from progressive funders. Like the assaults on federal regulation, the assaults on the civil justice system...