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New Kids on the Hill
To see where the parties are headed, look to the youngest members of Congress.
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A Family-Leave Safety Net
Right now paid time off is a perk available to only privileged families. Here's how we can make it an option for all workers.
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The Invisible Workers
For nannies and housekeepers, the home is a workplace, and they're fighting for basic rights.
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Outside the 9-to-5
Some of the fastest-growing professions with nonstandard work hours are dominated by women.
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Pink-Collar Blues
Many male-dominated professions are suffering an epidemic of job loss. But women aren't faring so well in the recession, either.
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When Opting Out Isn't an Option
For too long, "working women" has meant professionals with children. It's time we focus on the majority of female workers.
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The Next Tax Revolt
It's time for progressives to stop pretending that raising taxes on only the very rich will be sufficient to fund an ambitious agenda.
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Green Peacemaker
Can Lisa Jackson, head of the EPA, meet businesses' needs without alienating the environmental-justice movement?
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Wealth-Care Reform
Fixing our health-care system will make us more economically secure. It won't make us much healthier.
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Betting the Fed
The Federal Reserve is a hugely powerful yet unaccountable institution. Will its activism bring a backlash?
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Settling for Radicalism
Israel has looked the other way as its military and government have gradually become more radical, and it may be too late to go back.
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It's Time to Rethink the Problem
Everything Americans thought they knew about risk was wrong. Now what? To restore real prosperity, we'll need to get smarter about what we don't know.
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Risk Is Best Managed From the Bottom Up
We need regulations to address risk in every layer of the system, from the loan or bond, to the bank, to the very structure of the global financial industry.
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States Left Behind
When Obama selected his Cabinet, he caused a fair bit of upheaval in his nominees' home states.
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The Next War Over the Courts
Conservatives are already fired up about Obama's judicial nominations. Is the White House prepared for the fight?
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The Rich and Powerful Can Avoid Risk
Managing and balancing risk in the future is an organic human problem, a political problem, and a problem of power. The question is how to remedy the fact that some players have the power to shift risks and to use the political process for insurance, while others do not.
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A Strong Safety Net Encourages Healthy Risk-Taking
The basic underlying principle of the New Deal was that security is not opposed to opportunity but essential to it.
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Private Risk Is the Public's Business
From the earliest days of the republic, government at all levels has actively intervened to regulate and reallocate risk.
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Housing is Local, and Lending Should Be, Too
We're just now learning how dangerous it is that the sources of finance for homeowners and their neighborhoods have no real connection to those people and places.
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Rights Versus Rites
When it comes to the lives of women around the globe, do local traditions ever trump human rights?
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Progressivism Goes Mainstream
New research on ideology refutes the conservative myth that America is a "center right" nation.
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Charitable Relations
For years, foundations worked in concert with government, creating programs that could then be federally funded and expanded. Will a Democrat in the White House mean a return to this model?
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A Tale of Two Exurbs
Most outer-ring suburbs are being developed into unwalkable sprawl. But it doesn't have to be that way.
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Post-Consumer Prosperity
We won't return to an economy driven by ever-increasing consumption. But by prioritizing investment and consuming less, we just might end up living better.
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A Politics of National Sacrifice
Thirty years after Carter's "malaise speech," the language of humility and civic obligation resonates more powerfully than ever.
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The Education Wars
Unions and reformers are fighting over the future of schools. Now the battle lines have started to blur.
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Our Man in Kabul
Richard Holbrooke learned some hard lessons in Vietnam. Now he is applying them to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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The Radical Minimalist
Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, has a complex faith in market initiatives. But sometimes a "nudge" is not enough.
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The Other Black President
With 35-year-old Ben Jealous at the helm, the NAACP redefines its mission for an era in which black politics are mainstream.
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Anatomy of a Netroots Failure
Darcy Burner won the love of Internet activists but lost her 2008 campaign for Washington state's 8th Congressional District. Maybe the new politics can't write off the old just yet.
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Where Are the Workers?
Union organizing is an increasingly global, top-down effort. But card-check legislation could return employees to their central place in the process.
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You Can Handle the Truth
After eight years of a notoriously secret executive branch, Obama seems willing to consider opening the vault to historians and journalists alike.
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Twilight of the Autocrats
The global financial crisis is threatening the delicate bargain that the Chinese, Russian, and Venezuelan regimes have struck with their citizens.
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Department of Change
Obama cannot rely on Cabinet appointments alone to take the country in a new direction. Here are five government offices Obama will need to remake if he is to realize his agenda.
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Britain's Great Right Hope
As the Republican Party struggles to develop a new message and regain popular support, its British counterpart is on the verge of a comeback. Will the Tories become the model for conservatives everywhere?
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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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