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Beyond Hillary: By Invitation Only
Prominent women are one-third less likely to be encouraged to run for office than prominent men.
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Continental Drift
As Europe suffers the effects of a financial crisis made in the USA, its left opposition parties are surprisingly stymied. For many Europeans, the hope for change is Barack Obama.
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Beyond Hillary: Woman Versus Machine
Women do best in places where political machines are weak or absent and worst where culture is most traditional.
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Janet Napolitano and the New Third Way
Arizona's governor has contained Republicans, reinvigorated Democrats, and provided a new model for progressive politics in the West.
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America's AIDS Apartheid
The domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic is increasingly black and Southern -- and spiraling out of control.
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Beyond Hillary: Strength in Numbers
The Year of the Woman was 16 years ago, and the number of women in elected office has flatlined. Herewith, some ideas on how to build a critical mass of female officeholders.
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Beyond Hillary: 7 Democratic Women to Watch
Profiles of the next generation of progressive women political leaders.
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Can Identity Politics Save the Right?
In response to their standing in the polls, the GOP is falling back on identity politics, branding itself as the party of "Real Americans." How far can this take them?
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The Officers' War
The case of Iraq War opponent Lt. Ehren Watada reveals the toll the war has taken on career military personnel. Though his refusal to serve in Iraq is unusual, his disenchantment with the war is not.
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How Big Government Got Its Groove Back
The New Democrats' intellectual architect argues that today's economy requires an expanded role for government and a commitment to ensuring economic growth benefits everyone.
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Offshoring Silicon Valley
American computer software engineers go the way of factory workers.
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The Militarist
Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain may protest that he hates war, but no American leader has promoted it more avidly. McCain is not only the most hawkish neocon on the horizon; he genuinely sees war as America's most ennobling enterprise.
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Good Jobs for Americans Who Help Americans
Human services is the fastest-growing labor market. Here's how to restore middle-class earnings by making every human-service job a good job.
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Bubble and Bail
For most of the 20th century, America manufactured things. For the past 30 years, though, it has chiefly manufactured debt. Wall Street, with the aid of both political parties, gravely damaged the economy.
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How We Got Into This Mess
Trade, the war on unions, and underfunded schools all lowered wages. Cheap credit propped us up -- but now the debt is due. Herewith, a national economic strategy to turn America around.
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The Green Gap
As the number of green-collar jobs rises, pioneering activists are working to ensure that many of those jobs go to inner-city residents.
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The Obama Doctrine
Barack Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a serious presidential contender in decades. But will voters buy it?
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The Republican War on Voting
Using the Department of Justice, friendly governors, and its usual propaganda outlets, the GOP has propagated the myth of voter fraud to purge the rolls of non-Republicans.
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Populism Rising
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be neophyte class warriors, but their populism is more than just rhetorical -- and must be, if the Democrats are to win the election and govern successfully.
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The Next President and the Middle East
To keep the world's tinder box from exploding even more violently, George W. Bush's successor is going to have to pursue a radically different Middle Eastern policy. Some policy pointers: Get out of Iraq. Work with (some) Islamists. Create the Palestinian state. Thereby, undercut al-Qaeda.
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The Democrats' Choice: Manager or Visionary
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have two different approaches to fixing the economy, and the country. It's less about what to do than how to do it.
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The 2008 Veepstakes
Who should round out the Democratic ticket? Prospect writers and editors weigh the merits and demerits of some of the oft-mentioned contenders.
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Politicians Bet the Farm
Faced with tough budget decisions, many states are turning to gambling as an answer to their economic woes. But most end up getting far more than they bargained for.
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Black Hawk's Gamble
Black Hawk is one of three Colorado towns that decided to allow limited-stakes gambling. Residents have learned the hard way that the house always wins.
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Black and Brown Together
In Mississippi, African American leaders are the foremost champions of the state's growing Latino immigrant population. Some day soon, they hope, the new alliance will transform the state's reactionary politics.
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Can the Democrats Think Big?
With the economic crisis becoming more dire by the day, Democrats will win on pocketbook issues only if they recover the imagination and nerve to offer remedies on a scale equal to the problems.
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