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A Global New Deal
The next New Deal won't work if it's only American. Fixing our economy will require fixing international systems.
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How Bush Broke the Government
To gain a true sense of Bush's legacy, we survey the systematic and politically motivated ways he undermined the federal government.
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Can Partisanship Save Citizenship?
In the 1990s, reformers and academics worried about how to improve civic life. They didn't foresee that technology combined with party politics would renew civic engagement.
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The Number-Cruncher-in-Chief
Meet Obama's budget guru, Peter Orszag.
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Obama's Economic Opportunity
The dismal state of the economy presents Obama with the chance not just to produce a recovery but to restore a more egalitarian society -- and a progressive majority.
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The Audacity of Patience
Obama's savvy coalition-building broke all the rules about how to run for president. If he can take the same approach in the White House, he will be a towering success.
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Getting Real on Climate Change
We'll never succeed in making dirty energy too expensive. Let's make clean energy cheap.
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Are Cows Worse <br/>Than Cars?
Everyone knows driving an SUV or leaving the lights on is bad for the earth. But when it comes to your environmental impact, what's on your plate is just as important.
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Street Fighter
New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, is proving that cities don't need major initiatives like congestion pricing to become more walkable and bikeable.
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The Paper Chase
Dozens of progressive institutions are clamoring to put their agendas on Obama's desk. Will the incoming president actually read them?
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The President Doesn't Matter
Against the great-man theory of the presidency
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Lessons From the ER
Navigating a family health emergency, one policy expert learns it's not just doctors who make mistakes--systems can make them worse.
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An Uneasy Alliance
The mainstream gay-rights movement's slow evolution on transgender issues.
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Trans in the Red States
A grass-roots movement for transgender rights is flourishing in some of America's most conservative regions.
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The Sleeper of the Senate
As chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus could help pass a progressive social-policy agenda. Or he could be its biggest roadblock.
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The Cult of Counterinsurgency
A quiet revolution in the U.S. military has resurrected Vietnam-era strategies to fight the war on terrorism. Retired Lt. Col. John Nagl makes counterinsurgency seem so appealing that it's easy to forget its dark side.
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Republic of the Central Banker
In the middle of our market economy sits an island of central planning, the Federal Reserve. No president or Congress dares challenge the power of its chairman, Ben Bernanke.
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Channel Changer
For years, liberals thought they could catch up in media by
playing by conservatives' rules. Rachel Maddow's success proves
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2008: Five Races to Watch
The Prospect rounds up five of the most interesting and unusual campaigns across the country -- from a blind rabbi in New Jersey to an incumbent governor described as "Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney."
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It's the Green Economy, Stupid
Populism is the theme of the year for Democratic candidates. Oil companies are the problem and green energy is the solution.
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Five Questions About the New Electorate
For a decade or more, we've been promised an electoral transformation: Younger voters, minorities, and women will prevail over the older, conservative majority. Is this the year the predictions come true?
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What to Expect When You're Expecting a Majority
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is poised for a rare achievement: a second consecutive cycle of sizable gains.
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Meet the Next Treasury Secretary
The most difficult economic challenge of the next administration
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The Fence to Nowhere
The Minutemen promised their supporters a high-tech border barrier. Instead, they got a five-strand barbed-wire fence and a bunch of radical splinter groups.
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It's His Party
Barack Obama was more focused on building the Democratic Party than any other candidate in recent history.
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A Liberal Shock Doctrine
History teaches us that presidents have to move quickly to enact progressive reforms before the window of opportunity closes forever. It's a lesson Barack Obama should take to heart.
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How the West Will Be Won
By espousing a brand of liberalism that's heavy on personal freedom and light on divisive social issues, Democrats are finally being heard in the Mountain West.
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Obama vs. the Fiscal Fear Mongers
The story of how the right convinced some centrist liberals to endorse the idea of an "entitlements crisis" shows how difficult -- and necessary -- it will be for the next president to resist conventional wisdom.
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How the Dems Lost on Education
Republicans have exploited the Democratic Party's failure to own the education-reform issue--and students have paid the price.
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The Corrupter of Youth
Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher
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Where Do We Move When America MovesOn?
Victory could pose an existential challenge for the grass-roots groups that arose in opposition to Bush. A MoveOn.org veteran examines the challenge and its opportunities.
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