Web Exclusives:October 2006Hold, Hamper, Hinder A primer on the organized effort to suppress voter turnout next week. October 30, 2006 | | web only Risk Assessment, Round 2 The Great Risk Shift's author responds to Klein, Schmitt, and Yglesias. October 27, 2006 | | web only Battlestar Galacticons A close look at the right's scary affinity for sci-fi foreign policy punditry. October 27, 2006 | | web only Who Holds the Power? When discussing the dearth of women in opinion journalism, don't, under any circumstances, let editors off the hook. October 27, 2006 | | web only Still the Right War What about Afghanistan? In light of the Iraq debacle and the resurgence of the Taliban, should we reassess the wisdom of that other post-9/11 war? October 27, 2006 | | web only Crossed Lines? E-mails allege that Curt Weldon's office attempted to obtain information on his opponent from the Navy. October 26, 2006 | | web only "Course" Correction The GOP's implosion and the death of stay-the-course. October 26, 2006 | | web only Trailer Trash On the hoped-for death of a movie. October 25, 2006 | | web only Past Imperfect In attempting to make history in Massachusetts, Deval Patrick can't avoid the Bay State's fraught racial legacy. October 25, 2006 | | web only A Wedge in the Door Look beyond the Part D debacle -- the Bush administration is now taking aim at Medicare's status as a universal entitlement, by indexing premiums to income. October 24, 2006 | | web only It's the Politics, Stupid Gail Collins couldn't do bupkis for women in journalism. That's because there's only so much journalists themselves can do about the problems of women and punditry. October 24, 2006 | | web only Jawbone George The Bush administration can't grasp a crucial truth -- in real diplomacy, talk is cheap. October 24, 2006 | | web only Electroshock You don't need to believe in a vast vote-rigging conspiracy to be worried about the use of e-voting machines in November. October 20, 2006 | | web only Bush's Pyongyang Boomerang From the November print issue: A nuclear Korea, a futile Iraq war, and an aggressive Iran -- such is Bush's progress on the "axis of evil." October 20, 2006 | | web only Debating the Middle Just how is the middle class faring in the modern American economy, and how should progressives tailor their message and program accordingly? An ongoing debate, with contributions by Stephen Rose, Lawrence Mishel, Jeff Madrick, Jacob Hacker, and others. October 19, 2006 | | web only After Victory If the Dems take over Congress, the question remains: what'll they actually do in power? Here's a look at the legislation they'd push. October 19, 2006 | | web only Untruth in Advertising The anti-choice group Feminists for Life is clever. Dangerously so. October 19, 2006 | | web only We Answer to the Name of Liberals From the November print issue: A response to Tony Judt, and a manifesto for liberals in the waning Bush era. October 18, 2006 | | web only Door-to-Door Democracy When it comes to progressive politics, grassroots canvassing is part of the solution, not part of the problem. October 18, 2006 | | web only His Own Worst Enemy How classic GOP campaign advantages -- attack ads, savvy political operatives, a sleepy press -- have helped to do in the moderate Republican opponent of Bernie Sanders. October 17, 2006 | | web only Curt's New Hurt What new information prompted the FBI to activate its investigation into Curt Weldon and his daughter this spring? And from whom did it come? October 17, 2006 | | web only Duty Bound Assessing the civic-republican tradition that has defined Ned Lamont's family history. October 16, 2006 | | web only Cleaning Up the Mess On every issue you can name, victorious Democrats would face an enormous task just picking up the pieces from the wreckage that Bush has left. October 15, 2006 | | web only Without Sanction How to deal with a madman with nuclear weapons if economic sanctions have little impact on him. October 13, 2006 | | web only Discovery Phase The CIA leak case isn't over by a long shot -- and Cheney is still at the center of the story. October 13, 2006 | | web only Sins of Omission I.F. Stone's latter-day critics are attempting to prove what his contemporary enemies never could. They should give it up. October 13, 2006 | | web only Now It's Personal It's time to say it: Republicans are facing widespread and visceral public loathing, and their goose is cooked. October 12, 2006 | | web only Budget Bust The GOP's budget cuts could be costly to the party this year -- but only if the Dems step up and learn to connect national issues with local experience. October 12, 2006 | | web only Tweedledum, Tweedledee The authors of Ethical Realism respond to James Lindsay. October 12, 2006 | | web only The Alternative to Empire The author of The American Way of Strategy responds to James Lindsay. October 12, 2006 | | web only Betting the Farm Claire McCaskill's risky rural strategy in the Missouri Senate race. October 11, 2006 | | web only Accentuate the Negative Do Democrats sound too pessimistic talking about inequality? Nonsense. For the rest of the campaign season, the motto ought to be, "It's fairness, stupid." October 11, 2006 | | web only Problem Politics The GOP spends its time ignoring real problems while seeking politically beneficial solutions to fake ones. October 11, 2006 | | web only Waiting for Barack A leader leads. Before Democrats move to draft Barack Obama as their '08 candidate, they might wait to see if he can. October 10, 2006 | | web only Tactical Retreat It's great that the military is getting serious about counterinsurgency. But tactical improvements alone won't answer the questions that Iraq has raised. October 10, 2006 | | web only The Same Old Song Foleygate just presents one more Republican story of foxes guarding the henhouse, and of political cover-up, and of feckless leadership, and... October 9, 2006 | | web only Strain in Spain African immigrants are pouring into Spain -- and stirring up animosity among other European countries. October 6, 2006 | | web only Against Interpretation The new welfare rules demonstrate conservatives' continued abandonment of states' rights ideology. October 6, 2006 | | web only Judged Dred What a new book on the Dred Scott case teaches us about scapegoating courts. October 6, 2006 | | web only Power Strip Of the many outrages in the detainee bill, the worst may be its assault on the courts. October 5, 2006 | | web only Five Squandered Years How badly has the Bush administration botched the fight against terrorism? Two experts count the ways. October 4, 2006 | | web only Confound It Eric Alterman should accept the paradox: Confoundingly incoherent is exactly what Izzy Stone was. October 4, 2006 | | web only Fall Guy of Foleygate Dumping Hastert won't come close to addressing the real problems with the congressional Republicans. October 4, 2006 | | web only Along Came a Spider The U.S. doesn't just oppose efforts to ban landmines -- it's working to jump-start a new landmine program of its own. October 3, 2006 | | web only Stone Cold Untruths A rejoinder to Paul Berman's misleading review of a new Izzy Stone biography. October 3, 2006 | | web only The Dream-Killer Liberals, take note: War with Iran is a genuine possibility, and it would destroy the prospects of progressive foreign policy reform for years to come. October 3, 2006 | | web only A Missed Mitzvah Moment How George Allen should have handled his racism scandals. October 2, 2006 | | web only A Few Hundred Supernovas We depend on individual billionaires to do what government used to do. That's not a good thing. October 2, 2006 | | web only The McCain Charade The Arizona senator has set up a nice racket for himself -- and for hard-right Republican rule. October 2, 2006 | | web only |