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The Democrats' Strategic Challenge
If the Democrats win the election, can the next president and Congress make significant progress toward realizing liberal aspirations? Here's how -- a road map for the start of a new America.
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Good Jobs in a Global Economy
The next president can change our trade and labor policies to rebuild the American middle class.
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Why 2009 Is the Year for Universal Health Care
It's not 1994 all over again. The next president can get the reforms that Harry Truman and Bill Clinton couldn't.
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A Conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin
Great presidents build support for transformative change. What can the next president do to revive a sense of common purpose?
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What to Really Do About Immigration
Half a million Mexicans will cross the border annually for the next 15 years. Here's a plan to enable them to stay home.
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Color, Values, America
Our next president must restore the United States as a nation of laws and of rights, rooted deeply in values. This effort must appeal to all Americans and transcend race -- but cannot ignore race.
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Healing Our Self-Inflicted Wounds
How the next president can restore the rule of law to U.S. foreign policy -- and rebuild American credibility and power.
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Leaving "No Child Left Behind" Behind
Our No. 1 education program is incoherent, unworkable, and doomed. But the next president still can have a huge impact on improving American schooling.
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Financing the Common Good
After three decades of government starvation of necessary resources, the next president needs to champion progressive taxation with the proceeds invested in social outlays that make for a more productive economy.
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This Will Mean the World to Us
Despite decades of delay, the next administration could still move us toward a solution before devastating climate change becomes irreversible.
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What Ever Happened to Moderate Republicans?
With the hard right dominating their party, two groups have formed to recenter the Republicans. But even in their old habitats -- Wall Street and the media -- they're struggling to be noticed.
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How Hillary's Done It--So Far
Thanks to her sure-footedness, her rivals' mistakes, and diminishing Democratic divisions, Hillary Clinton has built a commanding lead. But we haven't heard from Iowa yet.
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Issuu Version Of Freshman
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Left Behind?
Ossining, New York, was at the forefront of school integration. But as American law and public opinion turn against race-based programs, can the town continue to use racial targeting to close the achievement gap?
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The Supreme Court's Wrong Turn -- And How to Fix It
After posing as moderates, Justices Roberts and Alito have moved the Court radically to the right.
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Repealing the 20th Century
When most Americans think about the Supreme Court's effect, they think about such cultural hot-buttons as abortion, or due process for terrorists.
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The Revolt of the Comic Books
America's superheroes take on preemptive war, torture, warrantless spying, and George W. himself.
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Prince William's Folly
In the Virginia suburbs of Washington, one county has declared war against its undocumented immigrants. With exceedingly limited political clout, the immigrants are still finding ways to fight back.
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Abolish the Air Force
What it does on its own -- strategic bombing -- isn't suited to modern warfare. What it does well -- its tactical support missions -- could be better managed by the Army and Navy. It's time to break up the Air Force. PLUS: Farley discusses his case for abolishing the Air Force with several bloggers.
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Tomorrow, the World
Flush with cash and ancient hatreds, American evangelicals are incubating a Christian right in secular Europe.
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Who's to Blame for the Brave New Economy?
Are we all complicit in the erosion of economic stability in American life? Or are corporate and financial elites the culprits? Our resident Roberts -- each of whom has authored a new book on the political economy -- argue the responsibility question.
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The Sisyphus from Searchlight
The question of Harry Reid's effectiveness has been a parlor game in Washington since he took over as minority leader. But has Reid been judged too harshly for Democrats' failure to end the war?
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In Iraq Forever
Despite the Bush administration's party line, construction of permanent U.S. bases along with long-term plans for troop presence continue apace.
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Bush's Neo-Imperialist War
Our Iraqi occupation not only rejects American foreign policy since Wilson, it's a throwback to the great power imperialism that led to World War I.
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The Hillarycare Mythology
Did Hillary doom health reform in 1993? Here's the real story, from the Prospect co-editor who was a White House senior health policy advisor at the time.
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God's Precinct Walkers
When students at conservative Christian Patrick Henry College
entered the real world of Republican campaigns in a swing state, they found that God's plan did not always include victory. -
Schools as Scapegoats
Our increasing inequality and our competitiveness problems are huge -- but they can't be laid at the door of our education system.
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Immigration Issues: City on a Hill
Issuing ID cards to immigrants and citizens alike, liberal New Haven charts a course for cities that want to treat immigrants like people.
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The Fence to Nowhere
More than ever, we need to craft an accord on migrant workers.
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Medifraud Amok
Heard about the company that resold the drugs that came back in the mail? That's apparently just a normal day in the life of our under-regulated drug industry.
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Immigration Issues: After Failure
With immigration reform dead, Democrats court Hispanics and Republicans go (more) nativist.
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Leo the Linchpin
Steelworker President Leo Gerard looks like an old-time union leader, but he's put together a labor-environmentalist alliance that bridges some growing Democratic fissures.
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The Bubble Economy
The sub-prime mess, the huge risks taken by hedge funds, and the conflicts of interest that led to Enron are all the consequences of serial bouts of financial deregulation. Will we reverse field in time to prevent another 1929?
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The Trouble with Impeachment
Bush and Cheney merit impeachment and conviction -- that doesn't make it a good idea.
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Share the Credit
Why extending income tax credits to payroll tax payers should be the next big idea in American politics -- politically unassailable, progressive economics on a grand scale.
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First Gonzales, then Bush
Impeachment should be a serious option -- with an intermediary step.
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The Myth of the Balanced Court
In 1980, John Paul Stevens stood at the center of the Supreme Court. Today, he is its most left-wing member -- and he hasn't changed.
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Young, Black, and Post-Civil Rights
There's a new generation of African American political leaders, and they aren't confining their careers to black districts -- they're calling for race-blind, not race-based, policies.
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This Year's Charade
Mitt Romney may be campaigning as the compassionate conservative, but, as George W. Bush has shown, winning the right wing's backing guarantees a right-wing president.
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