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Guilt by Association
A network of organizations that uses environmental concerns to justify anti-immigration views is now courting liberals.
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Making Bank
Regulatory agencies are looking to simple savings accounts to lift consumers out of poverty.
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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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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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Lessons from the Health-Care Wars
Activism on the ground creates pressure for bolder reform and gives liberal elected officials more room to maneuver.
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The Peter Principle
Republicans have found the perfect spokesman for a substance-free election.
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A Tea Party for Obama
The power of mobilized independent citizens is easily forgotten and often denied by the Washington cognoscenti.
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Change We Can Believe In
Strategies that rely on insider influence can't deliver large-scale change -- but mobilizations outside government can.
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Why Can't Labor Get a Little More Help From Its Friends?
By delaying labor reform, Obama has followed in the
footsteps of earlier Democratic leaders who failed their union
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The Virtual University
The demand for higher education is rapidly eclipsing the ability of
traditional universities to provide it. The solution lies online. -
Give 'Em Hell, Barry
What Barack Obama can learn from Harry Truman's inspired use of partisanship.
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An Unnatural Alliance
Progressives and green
groups are lobbying alongside
energy companies in
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Drill, Maybe Drill?
Upstate New York is in a battle over natural-gas drilling.
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The Obama Doctrine, Revisited
Is the president living up to his foreign-policy promises to quash fear and promote dignity? He's doing better abroad than he is at home.
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A Path to Peace
It's time to take America's Middle East policy off autopilot and change our approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Unintended Precedents
A Supreme Court ruling in a terrorism case is making it harder for many other important lawsuits to proceed.
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The Part-Time Bind
Mothers who need flexible work-from-home opportunities make easy prey for online marketing scams.
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The Recruits
Al-Qaeda knows how to appeal to young Western Muslims, but the United States still has a lot to learn.
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A New Southern Strategy
In South Carolina, an Obama campaign veteran puts his organizing strategies to work in government.
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The Art of the Possible
Eight policy -- and political -- wins that are achievable for Obama right now.
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Daddy Issues
Obama is putting action behind years of talk about fatherhood and poverty.
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Eric Holder's War
How the attorney general's relationship to his president, his adopted city, and his race are shaping the Justice Department.
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Germany's Economic Engine
For years, economists said Germany was doing everything wrong. But today it's thriving, even in the wake of the global financial crisis.
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The Ultimate Test Case
Obama has said he wants to change our very mind-set about foreign policy. Afghanistan is where he must prove it.
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Underrating Reform
Even with its compromises, health reform is the most ambitious effort in decades to reorganize a big part of life around principles of justice and efficiency.
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The Ruse of the Creative Class
Cities that shelled out big bucks to learn Richard Florida's prescription for vibrant urbanism are now hearing they may be beyond help.
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Gentrification Hangover
Can a new era of affordable housing be created from the wreckage
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The Work Around
How some supervisors of low-wage workers break the rules
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On the Books
Could microloans help America's informal entrepreneurs become
business owners -- and rescue urban economies in the process?
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