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Features
Mapquest.Dem
Michael Lind
What's the matter with Massachusetts? The Democrats are far too dependent on it. Go Midwest, young man.
Movement Interruptus
John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira
September 11 slowed the Democratic trend that we predicted, but the coalition we foresaw is still taking shape.
The Democrats' Da Vinci Code
David J. Sirota
The electoral results they didn't tell you about: progressive victories in the heart of red America.
Special Report
2004: A Report Card
Tova Andrea Wang
The appearance of a disaster averted obscures an election system that's still badly broken.
A Few Good States
Sam Rosenfeld
Maine, Minnesota, and now Georgia are showing that well-run elections are more than possible.
America Observed
Robert Pastor
Why foreign election observers would rate the United States near the bottom.
Color It Wrong
Steven Carbó
The tactics are more subtle than in the old days, but suppression of votes in minority neighborhoods is very much alive and well.
Courting Trouble
Burt Neuborne
Liberal overdependence on the courts, combined with an obsessive preoccupation with church-state symbolism, has reached its limit.
Don't Count on It
Mark Leon Goldberg
Why we need paper trails to back up compromised and fallible voting machines -- and why we're not getting them.
The Democracy We Deserve
Miles S. Rapoport
Theres reason to be optimistic about the prospects for reform. Heres why.
Vanishing Bipartisanship
Tara McKelvey
A conversation with Warren Rudman.
Whither the Ward Heelers?
Harold Meyerson
Democratic “527s” all but supplanted the party, but does ACT have a second act?
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Columns
New Year's Resolutions
Robert S. McIntyre
Four simple suggestions for reporters on the budget beat.
Security Flaws
Paul Starr
Republican privatization plans are more than a threat to Social Security -- they're a threat to national security.
The Enemy of Comfort
Nicolaus Mills
Iris Chang's suicide speaks to the burden of remembering genocide.
Culture & Books
Action Liberalism
David Greenberg
On the trail from the New Deal to Kingman Brewster to Gene McCarthy.
EU Got That Thing
Andrew Moravcsik
Book Review of The United States of Europe: New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
North Malice Forty
Michael Tomasky
What the Republicanization of testosterone means for the Democrats
Departments
Devil in the Details
The American Prospect Staff
Dossier: Red-State Values
The American Prospect Staff
What really goes on in the morally elite states?
Dispatches
A Farewell to Armitage
Spencer Ackerman
Colin Powell's departure has been much discussed. But his deputy's may prove to be the more important move.
The Battle Begins
Robert Kuttner
For decades, Social Security was called the "third rail" of American politics. Suddenly, privatization sounds like a done deal. Not so fast.
The God Squad
Susan Jacoby
What's the difference between a politically conservative Supreme Court and a Court dominated by religious conservatives? Read on.
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