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Patty Murray in 19 Takes

Jamelle Bouie, Patrick Caldwell

May 21, 2013

How the senator from Washington quietly became one of Capitol Hill's most influential players
Naming Names in the Dodd Frank Mess

David Dayen

May 21, 2013

It’s not just faceless Wall Street lobbyists who are doing the damage; a guy named Mark Wetjen has some explaining to do.
If at First You Don't Succeed, Bomb, Bomb Again

Matthew Duss

May 21, 2013

Those who have been proved most wrong in the Middle East remain immune to the caution with which others now approach events in the region.

Big Bad Banks

Dimon Forever
Harold Meyerson
State Politics

How E.W. Jackson Throws a Wrench into the Cuccinelli Plan
Jamelle Bouie
The Military's Suicide Scandal
Nancy Goldstein
The New Psych Bible

Face It: You're Crazy (But So Is Everyone Else)
Gabriel Arana
Voting Rights

Five Voting Fights You’ll Care About Come Election Time
Abby Rapoport
Arrested Gov't

Scandal Makers
Paul Waldman
Hot Math

Sex, Economics, and Austerity
Jeet Heer
James Beard Award Winner

As Common As Dirt
Tracie McMillan

"Scandals" Distract from Deeper Problems

The Prospect's Jamelle Bouie appeared on Up with Steve Kornacki this weekend where he discussed how lumping the DoJ's secret acquisition of Associated Press phone records with other "'Obama scandals' takes the focus away from actual, ongoing problems" such as the administration's remarkable hostility to whisteblowers and other information-leakers.

Must-Reads

Food Stamps Get Licked by Cuts

Monica Potts

May 17, 2013

Will go hungry for deficit reduction
Benghazi Was Neither a Terrorist Attack Nor an Act of Terror

Paul Waldman

May 16, 2013

If we're going to argue about language, at least we should understand what the words we're arguing about mean.
Rediscovering Albert Hirschman

Robert Kuttner

May 16, 2013

Resistance fighter. Development economist. Philosopher. A new biography of the thinker who redeemed political economy for liberals.
Unions to Banks: Pay Up

Sarah Jaffe

May 9, 2013

Instead of raising taxes, labor leaders in collective-bargaining talks have a new proposal for closing state budget gaps: Go after the financial institutions that ripped off governments.
Will Blog for Swag

Jeff Saginor

May 15, 2013

Why tech reporters should feel a little wrong about all that free stuff they're taking home
Teachers Left Behind

Sharon Lerner

May 15, 2013

As budgets are cut and standards raised, new evidence that teachers are growing disenchanted with their profession

Comment Stream

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Face It: You're Crazy (But So Is Everyone Else)

Gabriel Arana

May 20, 2013

Critics fear the newest edition of psychiatry's diagnostic manual will turn us into a nation of overmedicated zombies. But the truth is mental illness is far more common than we realize.

Conservatives Shift Gears on IRS

Paul Waldman

May 20, 2013

Since people can't really relate to having your 501(c)(4) application delayed, they're trying something new: claiming that conservatives are getting audited by the IRS. Who cares whether it's true?

Virginia GOP Says YOLO, Nominates Most Conservative Ticket Ever

Jamelle Bouie

May 20, 2013

Virginia Republicans have placed Ken Cuccinelli at the top of the ticket, with a running mate who might be even further to the right.

A Devil of a Problem for Labor in the City of Angels

Harold Meyerson

May 20, 2013

Los Angeles has the nation’s smartest, most successful union movement. So why is it coming out of tomorrow’s mayoral election so banged up?

The Military's Suicide Scandal

Nancy Goldstein

May 20, 2013

It’s time for the top brass to stop feigning surprise and start addressing the mounting mental-health epidemic.

Big Brother Is You, Watching

Paul Waldman

May 17, 2013

Google Glass is coming, and it's raising some new privacy concerns.

Doesn't Anybody Here Know How to Run a Conspiracy?

Paul Waldman

May 17, 2013

The altered Benghazi emails are another reminder that in politics, no one is half as clever as they think they are.

A Few Words about Angelina Jolie's Breasts

E.J. Graff

May 17, 2013

Last thoughts on the celebrity's op-ed in The New York Times this week

The Magazine

Vol. 24 No. 2

April 2013

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The Fundamentals of Immigration Reform

Demetrios G. Papademetriou

To begin fixing America’s broken system, we must be guided by both our highest values and our economic needs.

The Weeklies

Monica Potts

In the Denver suburbs, as in much of the U.S., the Great Recession turned formerly stable families into the new homeless—and left many living in budget hotels.

U.S. Out of Vermont!

Christopher Ketcham

Move over, Texas: In the Green Mountain State, it’s leftists who want to secede.

Born This Way?

Beth Schwartzapfel

Transgender activists believe that when children insist their birth sex is the wrong sex, their wishes should be honored. Dr. Kenneth Zucker disagrees.

The Once and Future Gov

Harold Meyerson

Two years into his second go-round as governor, Jerry Brown has—to the surprise of many—turned California around.

Retrench Warfare

Robert Kuttner

The Democrats won this round of the fiscal-cliff standoff, but now let’s get to the right debate.