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January 2007 (v18, no1)


Cover design by Point Five Design Download Issue PDF By The American Prospect Staff Cover Story - Features Taking Back the States Ezra Klein Massachusetts Deval Patrick, New Yorks Eliot Spitzer, and Ohios Ted Strickland head a new crop of Democratic governors who can renew American progressivism. Features Murder and Migration David Bacon A U.S. trade deal with Colombia may just have been signed, but foreign investment projects have already cost Afro-Colombians their land and their lives. Rejecting the Right Robert Borosage On issue after issue, conservatives are increasingly isolated from their fellow Americans. Special Report A Gulf of Good Intentions Kellie Lunney Can New Orleans rebuild along green, sustainable, affordable lines? That will take serious resources -- as well as better cooperation. Green Buildings Matter Michelle Moore Green Common Ground Robert Kuttner A conversation with Bart Harvey of Entreprise and Frances Beinecke of the Nature Resources Defense Council. Healthy Communities, Healthy People Georges C. Benjamin The importance of a greener built environment. Help Wanted -- Green Joan Fitzgerald Green development could be a big generator of good jobs -- if America will seize the opportunity. Livable Los Angeles Peter Dreier Not Just for the Gentry Peter Dreier and Beth Steckler Can the "new urbanism" of green city neighborhoods, convenient to transportation and jobs, also provide affordable housing? Sustainable Cities Neal Peirce Smart growth is newly fashionable. But what will it take to turn fashion into national policy? The New Environment for Housing Jill Brooke With a few crusading advocates to lead the way, the market for green affordable housing shows promise.	Columns How to Create Populists Robert B. Reich Our tax, trade, and immigration policies all increase our widening inequality. The Overrated Swing Voter Mark Schmitt Rove was right: There was a vast untapped potential vote out there, which Democrats didn't understand. The Real Judicial Activists Thomas J. Miles and Cass R. Sunstein Liberal justices uphold conservative decisions more than conservative justices uphold liberal ones. The Way Out Paul Starr The strategy we follow in withdrawing from Iraq should focus on minimizing the chances that al-Qaeda will permanently entrench itself there. Culture & Books Back to Class Richard D. Kahlenberg Four books look at ways in which school integration works. In Arabic in English in D.C. Tara McKelvey Up to a point, Al-Jazeera English looks like your cable news. Past that point, it doesn't. Not that you can see it, anyway. Indictment or Challenge? Sasha Polakow-Suransky Jimmy Carter tendentiously equates Israel with apartheid South Africa, but his warning to Israel isn't wrong. The Other War Anatol Lieven Sarah Chayes has authored a magnificent chronicle of our failure in Afghanistan. Departments January/February 2007 (PDF) The American Prospect Staff Up Front The American Prospect Staff The Republican crisis of confidence; Rumsfeld's other Iraq recommendations; plus The Question. Dispatches Arms Dealers to the World Bradford Plumer The defense industry wants fewer controls on its exports of armaments. Doctoring Health Care, I Barbara T. Dreyfuss Democrats, business, and labor look to 2008. Doctoring Health Care, II Robert A. Berenson Yo, Democrats! Medicare is privatizing! The Little Pill that Could Ann Friedman Can RU-486 also treat cancer? Pro-choice advocates hope so.

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