Web Exclusives:January 2007What Evangelical Problem? Some of the biggest power brokers of the Christian right are lovin' Mitt. January 30, 2007 | | web only By the Slice If now is not yet the time for single-payer universal health care in America, now is not the time for universal health care in America, period. January 30, 2007 | | web only On the March Notes from Saturday's demonstration. January 29, 2007 | | web only Everybody Get Together In her new book, Barbara Ehrenreich urges us to reclaim the joy of collective gatherings. January 29, 2007 | | web only The Case For Boldness Democrats should say no to the president's health plan -- and they should push for affirmative measures of their own that eschew weak incrementalism. January 29, 2007 | | web only The Fight We're In What's the best way for Democrats to force Bush to end the war? January 26, 2007 | | web only Broken Family Elif Shafak's new novel The Bastard of Istanbul is an earnest but failed effort to capture the complexities of modern Turkey. January 26, 2007 | | web only Ending an Unhappy Marriage The one good thing about Bush's health care plan is that it would begin de-coupling health care from employment. But there's far more to be done. January 26, 2007 | | web only Horn of Plenty The conflict in Somalia may accelerate -- and complicate -- U.S. Defense Department plans to set up a new command to protect oil interests in Western Africa. January 25, 2007 | | web only Trapped in the Iron Cage TAP talks to Rashid Khalidi about the Palestinians' decades-spanning struggle for statehood. January 25, 2007 | | web only Hedgehog Follies The audacious incoherence of Bush's foreign policy. January 25, 2007 | | web only Surgin' General David Petraeus really is as great as advertised. But given the mission he's tasked with in Iraq, that won't make a difference. January 24, 2007 | | web only Swing and a Miss Nancy Pelosi's tussle with John Dingell illustrates a lesson the Speaker has yet to learn: If you're going to pick fights, you better win them. January 24, 2007 | | web only Snooze of the Union George Bush puts Americans to sleep. Jim Webb wakes them up. January 24, 2007 | | web only Bad Plan, Necessary Step The progressive case for Bush's health insurance tax deduction. January 24, 2007 | | web only Pause for Concern No matter how many times the media says otherwise, it's Hormone Replacement Therapy -- not menopause -- that's dangerous to women. January 23, 2007 | | web only Smears for Fears Wes Clark just got caught up in the rigged rules for discussing Israel-related issues in America. January 23, 2007 | | web only Sleeping With the Enemy Partnering with the private insurance industry is not the way to achieve a decent universal healthcare system. January 22, 2007 | | web only For Richer or Poorer The Roe decision was about class, too. January 22, 2007 | | web only Anatomy of a Ban A line-by-line look at Georgia's proposed abortion-ban bill reveals the future of radical anti-choice legislation. January 22, 2007 | | web only The Mommy Mantra What female politicians lose when they brand themselves as mothers. January 19, 2007 | | web only Saving Grace It's time to reverse the national savings decline with a new plan that mandates flexible savings. January 19, 2007 | | web only Like A Rock The Granite State is remaining defiant in opposition to the DNC's new primary calendar. January 18, 2007 | | web only Disaster by Design Why the Iraq occupation discredits the conservative approach to government. January 18, 2007 | | web only A Fighting Retreat? To end the war gracefully or to inflame domestic political divisions. For Republicans, that is the question. January 18, 2007 | | web only Keeping Up Appearances The Democrats' congressional reform measures do next to nothing to get at the real source of political corruption in Washington. January 17, 2007 | | web only (Mostly) Wrong Again This late in the day, most of the liberal hawks' challenges to Iraq doves are bogus -- but not quite all of them. January 17, 2007 | | web only Willful Ignorance If we want to change the toxic sexual culture on our nations' college campuses, we need to start looking at the sex education our high-schoolers receive. January 17, 2007 | | web only General Boykin's Christmas Vacation There are still more questions than answers regarding American involvement in Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia. January 16, 2007 | | web only They're Baaack The Concord Coalition has returned, still peddling ideological mischief dressed up as bipartisan reform. January 15, 2007 | | web only Why He Was In Memphis Martin Luther King died fighting for labor and a living wage. January 15, 2007 | | web only Hostile Intent Just what is the Bush administration up to regarding Iran? January 12, 2007 | | web only High Definition AT&T spent millions of dollars promoting the idea that "net neutrality" was an undefinable concept. Two weeks ago, that all changed. January 12, 2007 | | web only Unquiet Americans The folly of U.S. meddling in the Horn of Africa. January 12, 2007 | | web only Bad-Faith Negotiation What's missing from the Democrats' new bill on bargaining prescription drug prices. January 12, 2007 | | web only Polarizer Vs. Polarizer America's president rules by dividing the country and tending to his base. So does Iraq's prime minister. January 11, 2007 | | web only The China Syndrome Bush has given democracy-building a bad name. Now China is not only cracking down on reformers at home, it's teaching other authoritarian governments how to do the same. January 11, 2007 | | web only A Raw Deal The full text of an email sent to the families of Minnesota National Guardsmen regarding the extension of their tour in Iraq. January 11, 2007 | | web only Shades of Cambodia Is Bush planning an expansion of the war across Iraq's borders, a la Nixon's invasion of Cambodia? January 11, 2007 | | web only Fixing a Non-Problem Small businesses don't need new tax cuts to offset a minimum wage hike. January 10, 2007 | | web only Notes From Underground Sudhir Venkatesh's new book offers an arresting view of ghetto-level economic relations. January 10, 2007 | | web only Things to Do in Denver When You're A Dem The obvious and irrefutable case for the Mile High City as the site of the '08 Democratic convention. Plus: Remembering Maria Leavey. January 10, 2007 | | web only It Takes All Kinds The discovery of new sources of stem cells is great news. It's not a reason to neglect the funding of embryonic stem cell research. January 9, 2007 | | web only The Personnel Delusion Periodic excitement about "grownups" joining Bush's national security team always ends in disappointment. That's because the president is still the president -- and the president is the problem. January 9, 2007 | | web only Act of Desperation The recent Madrid airport bombing is a sign that the Basque nationalist group ETA is flailing. January 8, 2007 | | web only Beyond PAYGO Democrats ought to make good on their November mandate and push a serious progressive tax agenda -- including repeal of Bush's tax cuts. January 8, 2007 | | web only War is Beautiful Roberto Benigni goes to Iraq in his latest movie. The results are atrocious. January 8, 2007 | | web only Star Wars Under the Bush Administration's space policy, the sky's the limit for commercial and military exploitation of the galaxy. January 5, 2007 | | web only Drawing the Line Thomas Pynchon's latest tome is an adventure serial that plots a history of Protestantism. January 5, 2007 | | web only How Nancy Pelosi Took Control From the archives: The "San Francisco" liberal turns out to be a tough customer. January 4, 2007 | | web only Zionist Vs. Zionist Controversy breaks out within the Israel on Campus Coalition. January 4, 2007 | | web only Sala's Choice Nancy Pelosi's ascendance means the revival of the spirit of Phil and Sala Burton. January 4, 2007 | | web only In the Borderlands Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters use the Afghan-Pakistani border regions as a haven. Changing that situation will take more than either country realizes. January 4, 2007 | | web only Rudy Can Fail In his quest for the GOP presidential nomination, Giuliani is going to have one hell of a southern problem. January 3, 2007 | | web only Keep it Clean There's no good reason to lard the coming minimum wage bill with extraneous new tax cuts. January 3, 2007 | | web only Feeding Frenzy '06 Before moving on, let's take a last look back at 2006 -- a banner year in elite greed and abuse. January 3, 2007 | | web only Consumerism and Its Discontents What two extremes -- the aesthetic and the ascetic -- teach us about our spending habits. January 2, 2007 | | web only No Easy Way Out Democrats need to realize that the Iraq war is likely never going to end without them doing something to end it. January 2, 2007 | | web only The Lemon Factor What's wrong with GM? The cars. January 1, 2007 | | web only |