A WPA for Today
Departments
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Noted
Responses to Peter Dreier's piece on "Lessons From The Health Care Wars," Spencer Ackerman's piece on The Obama Doctrine, and Alex Halperin's "Drill, Maybe Drill?", plus a note from Prospect executive editor Mark Schmitt.
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Three Reasons a GOP Landslide Won't Happen
Come November, Democrats will still be stronger than the troubled GOP.
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Noted
Responses to Peter Dreier's "Lessons from the Health-Care Wars," Spencer Ackerman's "The Obama Doctrine Revisited," and a note from Prospect executive editor Mark Schmitt.
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Up Front
Gov. Bob McDonnell's favorite holidays; taxing the vain; and The Question.
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Camp Gitmo
A journalist's first field trip to the infamous prison.
Features
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Safe Words
In recent decades the government has stopped urging Americans to have safe sex. Now, we're seeing the consequences.
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Work History
FDR created millions of jobs in just a few months' time, but the same feat would be impossible today.
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Making Bank
Regulatory agencies are looking to simple savings accounts to lift consumers out of poverty.
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Guilt by Association
A network of organizations that uses environmental concerns to justify anti-immigration views is now courting liberals.
Columns
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Beyond Limits
Sometimes, to understand man, we need to look to the stars.
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Courting Diversity
Can we insist that diversity matters and still express disappointment when the conversation is overly focused on a nominee's identity?
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The Next Phase
Presidents build their ability to govern by governing, and now is the moment when policy smarts pay off.
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Better Than Tea
Let the Republicans drink the Tea Party's brew. Progressives shouldn't wish for the equivalent.
Culture
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The Ultimate Sunblock
Schemes to reverse climate change through geoengineering attract an odd cast of characters.
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The Private-Equity Time Bomb
Private buyouts have sucked the value out of hundreds of firms, leaving them in debt and at risk.
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Renaissance Fair
In an era when female artists top the music charts, do we need a women's music festival?
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Who's Afraid of Tariq Ramadan?
Islam's most prominent internal critic is not a double agent for extremism.
Special Report
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Watching the Watchers
The corruption of credit-rating agencies was at the heart of the financial collapse. So far, Congress has not had the nerve to pursue fundamental reform.
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Out of the Black Hole
Reining in the reckless market in over-the-counter derivatives.
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Banking on Presidential Leadership
Obama's engagement salvaged health reform.
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Cleansing the Temple
Can financial reforms straighten out one of America's most byzantine institutions, the Federal Reserve?
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Simplifying Securitzation
With a better system, the economy can have plenty of credit without the outlandish risks and excess banker profits.
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Coalition of the Unwilling
Diverse individuals and businesses are hurt by
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Sand in the Gears
The case for a tax on financial speculation.
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No More Phony Accounting
Cooked books helped produce the collapse --
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Consumer Protection as Systemic Safety
If we safeguard consumers, we also save the entire financial system from its own excesses.
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Too Big for Us to Fail
We need counterweights not just to Wall Street's toxic products but to its malign influence.
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Reform and Its Obstacles
There is no mystery about how to simplify the financial system. The main obstacles are political.
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Shadow Banking
Reforms pending in Congress would not touch the abuses of hedge funds and private equity.
