Columns
Drowned Out
Robert B. Reich
How right-wing media abuses its liberal guests -- and why the Hannitys will lose in the end.
The Taxonomist
Robert S. McIntyre
In praise of the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Culture & Books
All the President's Handouts
Robert Kuttner
Review of
Plan of Attack
For America
Alan Wolfe
Review of
Anti-Americanism and
On Paradise Drive: How we Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense
Freedom's New Fight
Jedediah Purdy
Review of
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity.
Hauteur Theory
Richard B. Woodward
Dogville director Lars Von Trier is taking it, unfairly, from all sides.
Moving the Earth
Diane Dumanoski
Review of
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
Silence of the Flock
Mary Gordon
From liberal Catholics, a strange silence on Mel Gibson's
Passion
What Do Mothers Want?
Ann Crittenden
Review of
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women and
Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life.
Departments
Devil in the Details
The American Prospect Staff
Art imitates life for the War President; history appreciation from Mitt Romney; Thomas Jefferson, Republican; plus Tom Tomorrow
Prospects
Paul Starr
The Meaning of Abu Ghraib
Dispatches
A Simple Plan
Matthew Yglesias
A Texas congressman you've never heard of does a grand thing
Mission Semi-Accomplished
Garance Franke-Ruta
The 527s struggle to promote Kerry without actually promoting him.
Waiting to Happen
Jason Vest
Why some military reformers
weren't shocked by Abu Ghraib