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January 2009The Confidence Game Right now, confidence in Barack Obama is all that is standing between us and a complete collapse into economic and emotional depression. January 30, 2009 | | web only Post-Partisanship, R.I.P. The struggle between Democrats and Republicans over the stimulus bill is an instructive lesson in the battles Obama will face over the next four years. January 30, 2009 | | web only Saved by the Bureaucrats Liberals have a chance to make bureaucracy work. Here's a rundown of four agencies to watch under the Obama administration. January 29, 2009 | | web only Plunder and Blunder: A Roundtable, Part Two Part two of a two-part discussion of Dean Baker's new book, Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of The Bubble Economy. January 29, 2009 | | web only Obama's Darfur Test The International Criminal Court is expected to issue a warrant for the arrest of Omar al Bashir, president of Sudan, in the coming weeks, heightening tension in the region. January 29, 2009 | | web only An Open Letter to George Mitchell As President Obama's Middle East envoy, Mitchell will need to challenge the belief that nothing can be done to achieve peace in the region. January 28, 2009 | | web only Plunder and Blunder: A Roundtable Part one of a two-part discussion of Dean Baker's new book, Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of The Bubble Economy. January 27, 2009 | | web only With God On Our Side? President Obama acknowledged nonreligious Americans in his Inaugural Address. Will his administration re-separate church and state? January 27, 2009 | | web only Truth, Reconciliation, and Obama As we step around the wreckage wrought by the Bush administration, one awkward but crucial question is how much we need to look backward in order to clearly see the way forward. January 26, 2009 | | web only Gay Narratives in Graphic Form In Alison Bechdel's comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For" -- collected in a recently published anthology -- the personal is political, the political gets personal, and history "bends toward justice." January 23, 2009 | | web only Obama's Minimalist Approach to Guantanamo Obama's draft executive order on closing Guantánamo still doesn't go far enough toward addressing the worst of the Bush administration's moral and legal quagmires. January 23, 2009 | | web only We Have Been Turned Around The long journey to our first black president is finally over. On Tuesday, the crowds gathered to hear a black man proclaim a vision for the future. January 23, 2009 | | web only A Pass for Geithner Tim Geithner received a remarkably light grilling at yesterday's Senate confirmation hearings. January 22, 2009 | | web only Getting Rid of the "War on Terror" Mindset The Obama administration marks the beginning of the end of the war in Iraq. But it's less clear what it means for the larger "war on terror." January 22, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 64) Inside the politics of a new evangelical-progressive coalition, comparing Rick Warren to MLK, and can progressive Christians mobilize? January 21, 2009 | | web only A Farewell to Words Obama's Inaugural Address showed that he's moved beyond simply inspiring us. His oratory is now about naming and giving order to the work to be done. January 21, 2009 | | web only The Prospect on Barack Obama The best of our writing on the 44th president of the United States. January 20, 2009 | | web only What We Talk About When We Talk About Obama Now that he's president, this theorizing about what type of president we're going to get -- a hidden socialist? a compulsive compromiser? a master strategist? -- will be put to the test. January 20, 2009 | | web only What Tomorrow Really Means It is not the end of war, racism, or politics as usual. But it is a chance to reaffirm our commitment to making this country a more ethical, more equal place. January 19, 2009 | | web only Self-Awareness Arrives at the White House It wasn't Katrina that destroyed the Bush presidency; it was downhill from the moment Bush tried to destroy Social Security. He knows it, and Barack Obama should, too. January 16, 2009 | | web only What's Wrong With Theater? Monologist Mike Daisey raises hell about how corporate attitudes broke the American stage -- and why a simple application of government stimulus alone can't fix it. January 16, 2009 | | web only It's Not About Holder The Senate knows Eric Holder is qualified. It'll use today's hearing to stress that the office of attorney general should be independent from the White House. January 15, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 63) This week in the religious right: Reconsidering Ted Haggard, a deeper look at Rick Warren's finances, and Bristol Palin on birth control. January 14, 2009 | | web only The Bush Legacy Takes Shape As you might guess, it's not quite what his supporters have in mind. Despite Republicans' long-standing claims of being the party of fiscal responsibility and growth, Bush has overseen eight years of economic disaster. January 13, 2009 | | web only The Race Card Returns Obama's dream of race-neutral politics lasted as long as it took for his governor to realize he had only one trick left. January 9, 2009 | | web only Would the National Popular Vote Advantage Red-State Republicans? Republican states seem to suffer the worst from the vicissitudes of the Electoral College, but they are also the least interested in switching to a national popular vote. January 9, 2009 | | web only End of the Divorce? Union presidents move to reunite a divided labor movement. January 8, 2009 | | web only Size Matters Economists generally agree that the government has to step in with a plan to jump-start the economy -- but will Obama's plan be big enough? January 8, 2009 | | web only How the U.S. Should Be Involved in Gaza Absent external pressure, the internal logic of politics tends to point toward momentary conflict escalating out of control. But playing that role effectively requires political commitment. January 8, 2009 | | web only The Ignored Choices in Gaza Both Hamas and the Israeli government had options for avoiding this conflict. Now, in the heat of battle, those options have been eclipsed. January 7, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 62) Conservatives fight for the RNC chair, Focus on the Family fears the new Congress, and has Obama "defanged" the religious right? January 7, 2009 | | web only An Ounce of Prevention? The standard story is that prevention saves health-care dollars. But if we're to get better at averting illness, we're going to have to spend more. January 6, 2009 | | web only What Will the Next Republican Coalition Look Like? Forty years ago, "the unpoor, the unblack, and the unyoung" provided a comfortable majority for Republicans, but no longer. January 6, 2009 | | web only Deadly Medicine for Youth Violence New efforts at dating-violence prevention are based on the same old gender stereotypes. No wonder they're not working. January 6, 2009 | | web only |
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