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Features
Inferior Design
Chris Mooney
In late September, a contemporary Scopes trial gets under way in Pennsylvania. For the right, it's been 39 years in the making.
Student Body Right
Christopher Hayes
At evangelical colleges like Pat Robertson's Regent, what they're taught and what they learn are two very different things.
Their War, Too
Harold Meyerson
Are mere pundits responsible when an administration's policy goes wrong? When their sophistic arguments helped sell and sustain it, very.
Special Report
A Culture of Caring
Ayelish McGarvey
With an inspired leader at the helm, Missouri shows the rest of the nation an effective -- and cost-effective -- reform model for young offenders.
Adolescents, Maturity, And The Law
Jeffrey Fagan
Why science and development matter in juvenile justice.
Bayou Betterment
Katy Reckdahl
In Louisiana, a new juvenile justice system is emerging, with the governor's strong support. If reform can happen here, it can succeed anywhere.
Communities Helping Kids
David L. Marcus
Why diversion, outreach, and counseling programs serve troubled children -- and society -- better than prisons.
Cruel Convergence
Sam Rosenfeld
The era of get-tough juvenile justice is also the era of managed care, and children with mental-health needs are caught in the crossfire.
Detention Redemption
Peggy Townsend
In one California county, progressive leaders and law-enforcement officials are transforming a troubled juvenile-justice system
Race and Redemption
Ellis Cose
Reform is coming to juvenile justice. But except in pioneering communities, it still comes too slowly for black and Latino youths.
Reforming Juvenile Justice
Barry Krisberg
A century ago, reformers proved that prisons don't help wayward children. Now America is learning that lesson all over again.
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Columns
Day 1,461 and Counting
Michael Tomasky
It's the fourth anniversary of September 11 -- and Osama bin Laden is still at large.
How Times Have Changed
Robert S. McIntyre
We don't handle gasoline prices as well as we used to. Heck, we don't even handle them as well as we did last April.
Letting Go of Iraq
Paul Starr
Are we stuck with a war that has ceased to offer much hope of success -- or can we get out?
Culture & Books
Always Political
Sam Rosenfeld
A new book on the judicial nomination process makes the historical case for ideological battles.
The Collapse
Spencer Ackerman
Anthony Shadid's Night Draws Near is the first book to explain Iraqis to their occupiers.
The Conservative as Liberal
Stanley I. Kutler
Harry Blackmun left behind a fascinating and revealing self-portrait.
Who Gives a Flying Flag?
Todd Gitlin
The smearing of Joe Wilson, the excuses for Karl Rove: For the pundits of the right, national security is just a bumper sticker.
Departments
Devil in the Details
The American Prospect Staff
Dossier: Back to School
The American Prospect Staff
Dispatches
First Do Some Harm
Tara McKelvey
Physicians and psychologists are now taking part in interrogations. But are they following their professions' rules, or the military's?
Pop-Aganda
Garance Franke-Ruta
A question for Karen Hughes: Why is the administration peddling the kind of schlock to the Arab world that it's always denouncing at home?
The Good Fight
Matthew Yglesias
The new Partnership for a Secure America represents the good kind of bipartisanship. But is bipartisanship enough to dislodge the neocons?
Voice-Over America
Art Levine
Kenneth Tomlinson's other broadcasting scandal.
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