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November 2008Is It Time for Malpractice Reform? It's not just about tort reform anymore. Using progressive solutions to fix the malpractice system could result in better health care for all. November 20, 2009 | | web only A Devil of a Job for Democrats Forget making everyone healthy and saving the polar bears. If Democrats can't solve the jobs problem, next year's elections will be an uphill battle. November 20, 2009 | | web only Iran's Crisis of Resistance Facing heavy domestic criticism, the Iranian regime could seek to recoup lost credibility by causing more trouble in the region. November 20, 2009 | | web only The New Politics of Conscientious Objection in Israel For years, it was the left that argued about selective disobedience -- but the right is now picking up the charge. November 19, 2009 | | web only The Afghanistan Strategy Dodge Separating strategy from questions of resources and personnel obscures the options. November 18, 2009 | | web only Palin for President! Palin's book is full of half-truths and self-congratulation. But for a woman aimed at 2012, such inaccuracies may not matter. November 18, 2009 | | web only Obama Makes the Case for Attending Copenhagen By lowering the expectations for what will be accomplished in the December meeting, the president has made a strong case for his own attendance. November 17, 2009 | | web only The Left Fights Itself In his new book, Michael Bérubé says the left is torn between radical politics and cultural studies. The loser, naturally, is its relevance. November 17, 2009 | | web only When Hope Meets Reality Obama inspired the country with his campaign, and now he must manage expectations of those swept up by his rhetoric. November 17, 2009 | | web only The Left Splits Over Bagram Is sending some Guantanamo detainees to Bagram a good idea? November 13, 2009 | | web only That Old Republican Revival Will the GOP be sufficiently rebuilt to challenge Obama and the Democrats in 2010? Probably not. November 13, 2009 | | web only Girl Talk A new book posits zines as the founding documents of third-wave feminist political culture. November 12, 2009 | | web only The Myth of Judicial Backlash The failure of gay marriage in Maine proves one thing -- it's not the courts voters mobilize against; it's the issues. November 12, 2009 | | web only Policy, Pressure, and Peace If the United States wants peace in the Middle East and Afghanistan, it's going to have to use its leverage. November 11, 2009 | | web only Democrats Leave Women Behind Health-insurance reform was supposed to end the cruelties our system inflicts on patients, not create them. November 10, 2009 | | web only Looking Back, Moving Forward In the wake of this year's election drama, the only advice Democrats should follow is to make good on their promises. November 10, 2009 | | web only Under Eighteen to Life The Supreme Court takes up the question of whether life sentences for juvenile offenders are cruel and unusual. November 10, 2009 | | web only What's the Alternative to Tucker Max? Many progressive young men are rejecting traditional and toxic notions of masculinity. But they're still figuring out what should replace it. November 9, 2009 | | web only Yaakov Teitel and the Allure of Lawlessness Can one man's violence be divorced from an environment where acting on fury is sometimes treated as a virtue? November 6, 2009 | | web only The Fraud of Voting Scandals The right isn't the only party at fault for the continuing battle over voter fraud. November 6, 2009 | | web only Atlas Drugged Her fans still find her intoxicating, but will the right ever truly embrace Ayn Rand? November 6, 2009 | | web only Why Are We Talking About 2010? While the urge to read the political tea leaves is strong, Tuesday's results say little about next year's elections. November 6, 2009 | | web only One Year Later The message for Democrats? Extremists are out and economic concerns are in. November 4, 2009 | | web only Can Reason Win the Drug War? Stoner jokes aside, the debate over America's drug policy is sounding increasingly sane. November 3, 2009 | | web only Taxing Matters Maine and Washington voters are considering initiatives that would limit their state governments' ability to raise taxes -- and provide crucial social services. November 2, 2009 | | web only The Battle Over Bailout The proposed regulations before Congress do not represent the fundamental rethinking of the financial industry many progressives advocate. November 2, 2009 | | web only High-Stakes Health Reform Senate Democrats finally seem willing to take risks to ensure the public option's survival. October 30, 2009 | | web only Can Human Rights Win the War? Top U.S. military officials are starting to sound like human-rights advocates when it comes to detention policy in Afghanistan. October 29, 2009 | | web only A Too Late Solution? J Street's first conference may have been a success, but prospects are still bleak for the two-state solution the organization wants. October 29, 2009 | | web only Fox and Foes The Fox debacle isn't a tale of media versus government -- it's about a television network trying to rewrite journalism's rules. October 27, 2009 | | web only A Feminist Case for War? One of the few remaining rationales for maintaining the occupation is protecting Afghan women. Is that enough? October 27, 2009 | | web only Work/Life Balance Is Not a Woman's Issue Men need family-friendly workplaces, too. So why is this issue framed as something only mothers should care about? October 26, 2009 | | web only Obama's Foxhole The White House is fighting back against Fox News, and journalistic objectivity is at risk of becoming collateral damage in this war. October 23, 2009 | | web only The Israeli Left Implodes The lack of leadership on the Israeli left is all the sadder given the new prominence of the dovish camp among supporters of Israel in the United States. October 22, 2009 | | web only Nothing Is Certain But ... The current fight at the heart of health-care reform isn't the public option. It's the excise tax. October 21, 2009 | | web only Their Own Worst Enemy Health insurers stopped pretending they support reform. In doing so, they may have given new life to the public option. October 20, 2009 | | web only Something Rotten in the State of Texas Why is the execution of a potentially innocent man less scandalous than an affair? October 20, 2009 | | web only Defending Goldstone A report on last year's Gaza conflict has provoked outrage in Israel. But is the reaction justified? October 16, 2009 | | web only The Housing Hangover Waves of foreclosures continue to undermine economic recovery, and Treasury isn't doing enough to solve the problem. October 16, 2009 | | web only All These Governors Do the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey say anything about the Democratic Party's future? October 16, 2009 | | web only Europe-a-Dope The European Union is becoming ever stronger, and no one seems to care. October 15, 2009 | | web only Democrats Take a Pass on Civil-Liberties Reform While we were busy fretting about Obama's Nobel, the Democrats dropped the ball on reforming Bush-era civil-liberties abuses. October 14, 2009 | | web only The Charter Barter On education -- and every other social policy issue -- the Obama administration must play referee among competing experts. Is it up to the task? October 13, 2009 | | web only A Case for Empathy Last week, we got to see what it looks like when a justice is unable to view the world from another's perspective. October 13, 2009 | | web only American Ignorance and Afghanistan We can't keep training the public to think in black and white terms about a very gray war. October 12, 2009 | | web only A March Toward Irrelevance? The National Equality March drew thousands to Washington for workshops, speeches, and "dancestravaganzas." But was anything really done to advance gay rights? October 9, 2009 | | web only Student Union At NYU, a more progressive president means less progressive labor policies. October 8, 2009 | | web only Trouble at the Temple Mount When diplomacy appears deadlocked, the chances of violence rise. Jerusalem's most holy space has once again become a tinderbox. October 8, 2009 | | web only A Stimulus by Any Other Name The Obama administration needs to do more to combat unemployment, starting with aid to states. October 7, 2009 | | web only The Second Coming of Sarah Palin Will Alaska's former governor become the leader of the GOP's religious wing? October 6, 2009 | | web only Dalai Drama How much should we read into Obama's choice not to meet with the Dalai Lama? October 6, 2009 | | web only The Specter of Containment Should we approach today's nuclear threats using Cold War policy? October 2, 2009 | | web only A Problem of Olympic Proportions When it comes to Copenhagen, we should worry less about the Olympics and more about the looming December climate summit. October 1, 2009 | | web only Real Reform for the PATRIOT Act? The Senate is reviewing Bush-era surveillance powers set to expire at the end of the year. This could be the moment to revise the whole architecture of post-9/11 spying law. October 1, 2009 | | web only Time Is on Their Side No one -- especially Democrats -- should believe the hype about 2010 as the new 1994. September 30, 2009 | | web only Is Europe's Left in Crisis? The defeat of Germany's Social Democrats certainly isn't good for socialism in Europe. But is the loss as devastating as many say? September 30, 2009 | | web only The Military's Overlooked Brain Trust Top commanders of the U.S. Army need to start listening to the opinions of the rank and file. September 29, 2009 | | web only Hurry Up and Wait Why passing health-care reform might not be the political boon you'd expect. September 29, 2009 | | web only Can California Be Fixed? The Prospect talks to Repair California, the coalition attempting to call a constitutional convention in the country's messiest democracy. September 25, 2009 | | web only Skipping the Summit for the Movies Our Middle East correspondent skips the Netanyahu-Abbas meeting to watch Ajami, a controversial film that shows the courage needed to truly bring peace. September 24, 2009 | | web only How Will World Leaders Fix the Financial Mess? Economist Ken Rogoff previews the agenda at this week's G-20 Summit. September 23, 2009 | | web only The Vietnamization of Afghanistan Obama's choices in Afghanistan will either break the Democrats' association with Vietnam or confirm it. September 23, 2009 | | web only Kristol and the Tea Baggers Intellectuals don't always guide movements; often, movements guide intellectuals. September 23, 2009 | | web only The Wrong Side of the Mommy Track The Good Wife? More like The Get Back to Work Wife. CBS' new drama is less about political marriage and more about a generation of opt-out women who are headed back to work. September 22, 2009 | | web only Glenn Beck's Party The message of the GOP is being delivered by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. September 22, 2009 | | web only Sister Hacked Diablo Cody set out to make a feminist horror film -- so why is Jennifer's Body the least empowering slasher flick currently on screen? September 18, 2009 | | web only Southern Baggage As long as racism is tolerated within their party, Southern Republicans shouldn't act too surprised when they get pushed on the issue. September 18, 2009 | | web only Hawks and a Hack Job John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsay Graham all want the White House to commit more resources to Afghanistan. Too bad the senators don't have any credibility on the issue. September 17, 2009 | | web only Why Can't Tom Perez Get Confirmed? Obama's pick for head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is caught up in the same politicization that marked the Bush years. September 17, 2009 | | web only Is Obama Too Calm Before the Storm? His staid reaction to the financial crisis may have won him the presidency, but too much complacency could cause him to lose it. September 16, 2009 | | web only Convenient Untruths A 9/11 Commission lawyer catalogues the deceptions that mounted in the attack's wake. September 16, 2009 | | web only Stuff Some White People Don't Like The right's animosity toward Obama isn't about fascism or socialism -- it's about racism. September 15, 2009 | | web only The Return of the Repressed It should come as no surprise that with the election of Barack Obama, the right has returned to a politics of racial resentment. September 15, 2009 | | web only Will the U.S. Stop Treating Settlement as a PR Problem? George Mitchell's visit to Israel to discuss settlements doesn't mean the U.S. is taking the issue seriously. September 14, 2009 | | web only Extreme Makeover, Health-Care Edition Both liberals and conservatives are upset about how Obama has handled health-care reform. Do Americans expect too much? September 14, 2009 | | web only How Van Jones Will Help Win the Health-Care Fight The resignation of Obama's green-jobs czar is a primer on the right's political warfare tactics -- those preparing to defend health-care reform should take note. September 11, 2009 | | web only Health-Care Reform Gets a Booster Shot Obama's speech had some important news: His plan now includes some immediate relief on insurance costs. September 11, 2009 | | web only Combating the Campus Rape Crisis College is back in session, and that means it's time for a lot of ineffective pageantry on rape prevention. Don't our young women deserve better? September 9, 2009 | | web only Who's Leading the Fight Against Consumer Financial Regulation? The Chamber of Commerce doesn't think consumers need real protection after the financial crisis. September 9, 2009 | | web only No Place Like Home After seven years in Gitmo, Mohammed Jawad was supposed to be going home. He almost went back to prison instead. September 8, 2009 | | web only The Three Audiences Obama Has to Please Wednesday's speech is the president's chance to talk three key congressional constituencies into passing health-care reform. September 8, 2009 | | web only The Real Nanny Diaries Americans pay lip service to the idea child-raising is important work, but when they hire people to do it for them, they tend to pay them little and respect them less. September 4, 2009 | | web only The Deification of Matthew Shepard What the gay-rights movement has lost by making Shepard its icon. September 4, 2009 | | web only Barack Obama, Explainer-in-Chief Republicans have been able to confuse the issue, but their chances of killing health-care reform remain slim. All Obama has to do is lay out the facts. September 4, 2009 | | web only Sea Change of Japan? Thanks to a landslide victory for Japan's opposition party, the United States' relationship with its Asian ally just became rather unpredictable. September 3, 2009 | | web only What Max Baucus Can Learn From the Labor Movement As Labor Day approaches, Richard Trumka gets tough with uncooperative Democrats. September 2, 2009 | | web only A Battle of Wills George Will and William Kristol are two of the loudest voices in the conservative movement. But whose vision will guide the Republican Party? September 2, 2009 | | web only Civilian Affairs The Obama administration says civilian safety is a priority in Afghanistan. But have ground tactics really shifted since the Bush era? September 1, 2009 | | web only Health Care's Lowest Foes The most reprehensible critics of reform are not the ignorant or deluded, but the conspirators who lie knowingly about what's at stake. September 1, 2009 | | web only The Imperfection and Redemption of Ted Kennedy Because of the mistakes of his youth, Ted Kennedy felt he had something to prove in the Senate. And we're all better off as a result. August 31, 2009 | | web only Don't Know from Adam Adam seeks to raise awareness of Asperger's Syndrome, but does it do much good for those who have it? August 28, 2009 | | web only The Invention of the Body-Snatchers Take one Swedish journalist, one Israeli politician, add allegations of international organ trafficking, and you've got one international mess. August 27, 2009 | | web only Keeper of the Liberal Flame Kennedy was the champion of the uninsured, the undocumented, and the forgotten. August 26, 2009 | | web only Will the Deficit Save Health Reform? If the latest budget projections are keeping you up at night, the best way to ease your troubled mind is to support health-care reform. August 26, 2009 | | web only Master of Opportunity Ted Kennedy was never afraid to seize the chance to further his vision of a just society. August 26, 2009 | | web only Shaking Up Suburbia The Obama administration has told affluent Westchester County it can't continue to segregate low-income and minority housing. Is it the end of the all-white suburb? August 25, 2009 | | web only Rally 'Round the "True Constitution" Convinced that the 10th Amendment of the Constitution prohibits spending programs and regulations? Conservatives have a movement for you. August 25, 2009 | | web only Last Chance for the Public Option? Reports of its demise could be premature. August 25, 2009 | | web only A Kitchen of One's Own It's difficult to conceive of cooking being a calling if you have to do it every day on a budget. August 21, 2009 | | web only The De-Facto Segregation of Health Care Opponents of health care reform haven't shied away from invoking race. Why are advocates afraid to point out that people of color suffer the worst inequities of the current system? August 21, 2009 | | web only Fragments of the Afghan State Today, Afghans cast their votes under the threat of violence. But even if the election goes smoothly, one day's outcome should not be mistaken for sustained, effective governance. August 20, 2009 | | web only Will Huckabee Pay A Price For Rejecting the Two-State Solution? The former (and likely future) presidential candidate's statements during a Middle East visit are to the right even of his own party. August 19, 2009 | | web only Sacrificing the Public Option Chill out, progressives. To get health-care reform through the Senate, the public option is almost certainly going to have to be dropped. August 19, 2009 | | web only Insurance Fraud In the health-care reform debate, the insurance lobby is a wolf in sheep's clothing. August 18, 2009 | | web only Keeping Up With the Clintons The world still isn't accustomed to a husband and wife who both have a lot of official power. August 17, 2009 | | web only Mad Men, Bohemian Boys What Mad Men really gets about the 1960s is how much the era was about collapsing the boundaries of pop culture and lived experience. August 14, 2009 | | web only New Abuses in Old Forms Big private-equity companies, which are largely unregulated, are hungry to take over failed banks. August 13, 2009 | | web only Whose Religion Is This, Anyway? Being an Orthodox dove in Israel is a complicated business. August 13, 2009 | | web only Letting the People In People want their voices heard in the making of policy. But how do politicians figure out which ones to listen to? August 12, 2009 | | web only The State Tax Wars How have some states managed to raise taxes during a recession? August 12, 2009 | | web only Their Man on Health Care What is Sen. Mike Enzi doing in the middle of the Senate health-care negotiations? August 12, 2009 | | web only All the Rage Over Health-Care Reform The ugliness of the opposition to health-care reform is a symptom of something much larger. August 11, 2009 | | web only How the Sotomayor Saga Could Help Progressives Take Back the Courts Sotomayor's hearings shelved the stereotype that progressive judges rule based on their hearts and treat the Constitution as a play toy. August 10, 2009 | | web only Same As It Ever Was? The pro-Israel lobby, long seen as an immutable part of American politics, may be headed toward obsolescence. August 7, 2009 | | web only Double Jeopardy Civil-liberties and human-rights groups have found themselves fighting a two-front battle on how the United States tries terrorist suspects. August 6, 2009 | | web only Why Geithner Should Get Angry Despite an ambitious program from the Obama administration, millions of mortgage holders still face foreclosure. August 5, 2009 | | web only Health Care's Public Perception Malady Don't count on successful health-care reform to change the public's attitudes about government. August 4, 2009 | | web only Questioning Journalistic Objectivity There's a case to be made for reporters collaborating with the people they write about. August 3, 2009 | | web only A President in Need of a Break Birthers, Blue Dogs, Glenn Beck, and beer -- all of these things have spelled a bad week for Obama. Now, it's time for a vacation. July 31, 2009 | | web only Jerusalem's Shepherd Hotel Affair In Jerusalem, where all planning is strategic and all local issues are international, the sale of one property can serve as a political move intended to determine the city's future status. July 30, 2009 | | web only Should Disability Funding Be Part of Health Reform? When it comes to their top legislative priority, disability activists fear later will mean never. July 30, 2009 | | web only With China, Money Talks Strategic and economic dialogue? Forget it, Hillary -- it's China. July 29, 2009 | | web only The 10 Dumbest Arguments Against Health-Care Reform The health-care debate has been overwhelmed by grumbling resistance. Too bad the complaints are largely groundless. July 28, 2009 | | web only A "Uniquely American" Abortion Debate The notion that tax dollars shouldn't pay for abortions is an international aberration, an example of American exceptionalism run amok. July 28, 2009 | | web only The Next Diplomatic Cable Technology helped make Barack Obama president. Can it help Hillary Clinton save the world? July 27, 2009 | | web only Sports Misogyny and the Court of Public Opinion Last week, a lawsuit was filed accusing football player Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault. In the blink of an eye, sports apologists turned the focus on the case from the athlete to the alleged victim. July 27, 2009 | | web only Women and the Minimum Wage The increase in the federal minimum wage helps women -- but not nearly enough. July 24, 2009 | | web only Something About Airplanes The move to cut funding for the F-22 program is more than just a victory for common sense over defense pork. July 23, 2009 | | web only The Environmental Mess Palin Left Behind The policies Gov. Sarah Palin sold as solutions to America's energy crisis are now failing investors, stakeholders, and the environment. July 23, 2009 | | web only How the Battle Over Health Care Will Be Like the Battle Over the Stimulus ... and why it should be different. July 22, 2009 | | web only Our Man in Honduras The backers of the Honduran coup have an inside man in Washington. July 22, 2009 | | web only Going Strong on the Wrong Message The GOP became its own worst enemy during the Sotomayor hearings. July 21, 2009 | | web only Holdren's Controversial Population Control Past White House science czar John Holdren co-authored a textbook in the 1970s that discussed coercive population control. Should this disqualify him as a serious voice on science? July 21, 2009 | | web only Lessons for Feminists from Sarah Palin Ultimately, our discomfort with Sarah Palin is more about us than it is about her. July 20, 2009 | | web only The Dick Cheney Diversion Cheney's re-emergence in the media spotlight can only make Obama look good. July 17, 2009 | | web only The Hurt Locker as Propaganda For a supposedly anti-war film, Kathryn Bigelow's Hurt Locker serves as a remarkably effective military recruiting tool. July 17, 2009 | | web only Picking Sides Every time there's an international crisis, conservatives rush to judgment. It's not a good idea. July 15, 2009 | | web only New Testimony From Gaza A newly published account by an organization of Israeli soldiers suggests that policy set by top commanders led to unnecessary civilian deaths and massive physical damage. July 15, 2009 | | web only We'll Always Have Wasilla Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin's resignation as governor of Alaska means political coverage is about to get a lot less interesting. July 14, 2009 | | web only Playing the Abortion Card Conservatives are crying "abortion" in their efforts to derail health reform. But progress for reproductive rights is far from assured. July 14, 2009 | | web only Meet the Cast of the Sotomayor Hearings Ready for a week of Senate questioning? Here is your guide to the major players of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings. July 13, 2009 | | web only In Defense of Confirmation Hearings Sonia Sotomayor will spend the next week in the spotlight of Senate confirmation hearings. Attempting to "depoliticize" the process would not merely be impossible but undesirable. July 13, 2009 | | web only The Dilemma of Post-Acquittal Detentions The administration says it can detain terrorist suspects even after they've been acquitted. It is legal, but is it a good idea? July 10, 2009 | | web only Are Depressions Necessary? The current crisis has revived an old debate about the utility of economic downturns. July 10, 2009 | | web only Palin on Prime Time? Sarah Palin may be well suited to the small screen, but she was never White House material. July 10, 2009 | | web only Small Steps Toward a Nuke-Free World Obama's visit to Russia may have been drama-free, but it wasn't uneventful. July 9, 2009 | | web only Are Democrats Ready to Fight for Consumer Protection? Bank lobbyists are marshaling opposition to the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency. July 8, 2009 | | web only Delivering Affordable Health Care Hospital deliveries are now the norm, but home births may actually be better for women -- and government's pocketbook. July 8, 2009 | | web only Sarah in Wonderland Palin appears to reside in the looking-glass world of the conservative base. From there, resigning as governor seems like the best move she could have made. July 7, 2009 | | web only Health Care's True Price The real reason we need a public option in health-care reform isn't cost control. It's security. July 7, 2009 | | web only Continental Drift Europe is tilting right as America goes left. TAP Online talks to Yale political scientist David Cameron about the future of European social democracy. July 7, 2009 | | web only Life and Death in the Climate Change Debate As we push Congress to pass a climate bill, let's not forget the grass roots. July 6, 2009 | | web only The Rise of Megaregions Planning theorists argue we need to rethink the spatial coordinates of the national economy. July 3, 2009 | | web only Does Franken Solve the Filibuster Problem? Don't break out the champagne quite yet: The Democrats' supermajority is just as much a curse as it is a blessing. July 3, 2009 | | web only Standard Deviation Forty-nine states and territories have signed on to create national education standards. But will state-by-state implementation really work? TAP talks to the movement's leaders. July 2, 2009 | | web only Two States, Still One Exit Is the two-state solution an obsolete strategy? July 2, 2009 | | web only TAP Talks to P.J. O'Rourke In his new collection of essays, the libertarian political satirist skewers all things government. TAP Online sat down with him to talk about being an avowed ring-winger in the Age of Obama. July 1, 2009 | | web only How Do You Measure Success? As the administration juggles ambitious domestic policy programs with ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the question is which numbers define success -- or failure. July 1, 2009 | | web only Recession Depression The authors of Womenomics are telling employees to demand work-life balance -- or else! But in a bleak economic climate, most women workers lack real bargaining power. June 30, 2009 | | web only The Fretting Over Health Care Reform Is health-care history just repeating itself? Not quite. June 30, 2009 | | web only The Cost of Hashtag Revolution With the Iranian election, we've seen a privately owned technology becoming a vital part of the infrastructure supporting political activity. That's a problem. June 29, 2009 | | web only Where Blacks Lead the Fight for Gay Rights Black leadership is changing the fight for gay rights in D.C. June 26, 2009 | | web only The Real Stonewall Legacy Waiting our turn isn't working. Asking nicely isn't working. What will work is what worked that fateful night at Stonewall. June 26, 2009 | | web only A Governor Undone by Love Forget the broader implications for the GOP -- Mark Sanford's public breakdown was a human drama all its own. June 26, 2009 | | web only Concern Trolling Iran The conservative take on Iran has never been genuinely interested in what Iranians think or in the well-being of the Iranian people. June 25, 2009 | | web only Burqa Politics in France What happens when feminism and sexual liberation become tools for nationalism? June 24, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 86) This week in religion and politics: In her last regular column, Sarah Posner says so long to The FundamentaList. June 24, 2009 | | web only The Prospect's Coverage of Iran's Unrest Prospect writers on the Iranian election's impact on the region, America's reaction to allegations of voter fraud, and the Neda video. June 23, 2009 | | web only Health Care Reform Villains It's time for Obama to start naming the bad guys in the battle over health care reform. June 23, 2009 | | web only An Uncertain Fate for Voting Rights The Supreme Court might not have struck down the act yesterday, but it didn't preserve the act, either. June 23, 2009 | | web only Four Ways States Could Squander the Stimulus Implementation of Obama's stimulus bill is largely in the hands of the state governments. Here are four ways they might derail it. June 23, 2009 | | web only Don't Call It a 'He-cession' Why are we pitting men against women? The economic crisis affects everyone -- and we can only fix it together. June 22, 2009 | | web only The Never-Ending Labor Wars An inter-union fight is exhausting the time and resources of important labor leaders. Can UNITE HERE and SEIU reconcile before their conflict gets even more bitter? June 22, 2009 | | web only The Other Sons of Iraq How the lessons al-Qaeda learned in Iraq are informing the next generation of fighters. June 22, 2009 | | web only Nothing Stays in Vegas It's a safe bet that Sen. John Ensign will survive his affair scandal. The Republican Party's odds are not so good. June 19, 2009 | | web only Who Regulates the Regulators? Obama's far-reaching proposal for financial regulations is a mixed bag -- can Congress improve the project? June 19, 2009 | | web only Conservatives' Cold War Approach to Iran Republicans are once again deploying a cracked history of the Reagan era to cast international politics as a zero-sum game. June 18, 2009 | | web only Did Obama's Cairo Speech Change Everything? Whether Obama has had a small influence or a large one, the Middle East has already changed significantly. June 18, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 85) This week in religion and politics: The Army secretary nominee's record on church-state separation comes under scrutiny, and immigration reform may leave out LGBT people. June 17, 2009 | | web only The Left and the Living Dead In the event of a zombie apocalypse, will progressive ideals win out? June 16, 2009 | | web only Our Iran Strategy The Obama administration has approached the Iranian elections delicately thus far. But if Ahmadinejad is named the official winner, where does that leave us? June 16, 2009 | | web only Is Iran's Election America's Problem? The theft of Iran's presidential election raises more foreign-policy implications than any clean result could have. June 15, 2009 | | web only Netanyahu's Illusory Concession on Palestine The Israeli prime minister endorsed the idea of a Palestinian state, while rejecting it in the particular. June 15, 2009 | | web only Meet D.C.'s Anti-Gay Marriage Crusaders An alliance between local and national activists is a test of the effectiveness of Republicans' reliance on culture-war wedge issues. June 12, 2009 | | web only Who's Afraid of Virginia Primaries? Relax, political junkies: Virginia's gubernatorial primary doesn't quite mean what you think it does. June 12, 2009 | | web only The Sound of Settling Right-wing hawks and Israeli officials are savaging Obama for his condemnation of settlement expansion. But is there any good reason for the president to back down from his stance? June 11, 2009 | | web only Why is the Treasury Excluding the Gulf Coast from Stimulus Benefits? Low-income housing construction is stalled due to the economic collapse -- and a recent ruling by Tim Geithner is preventing federal funds from reaching the victims of Katrina. June 10, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 84) This week in religion and politics: An HHS appointment raises questions about the purpose of faith-based offices, and religious leaders mourn the assassination of George Tiller. June 10, 2009 | | web only Five Questions We Should Ask About Financial Oversight Strengthening regulation is only the beginning. June 10, 2009 | | web only The Numbers Game We ought to be in a golden age of data. So why are so many of the statistics we hear just fuzzy math? June 9, 2009 | | web only The Future of Philanthropy New movements reacting against the "nonprofit-industrial complex" are pushing the funding world to give grants with fewer strings attached -- and to give directly to grass-roots groups. June 8, 2009 | | web only Can a Speech Change the World? In his Cairo address, Barack Obama sought to transform the way the United States engages with the Muslim world. June 5, 2009 | | web only The Devil Is in the Health Care Reform Details If Obama is not careful, he could end up with reform that is worse than the current system. June 5, 2009 | | web only House Hunting in the West Bank Our Jerusalem correspondent finds that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's argument for allowing continued construction in settlements contains layers of deception. June 4, 2009 | | web only The Quiet Bias The death of a black police officer at the hands of his white colleague should be a wake-up call for us to explore the role of unconscious racial bias in the police force. June 4, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 83) This week in religion and politics: Should the Senate Judiciary Committee consider Sonia Sotomayor's stance on the separation of church and state or her lack of a record on abortion? June 3, 2009 | | web only The GM "Precedent" The real challenge before the administration is to promote policies that foster whole new industries, not that save individual firms. June 3, 2009 | | web only Why Geithner Went to China It wasn't just to reassure China that the administration has economic recovery on track. June 3, 2009 | | web only The Compassion of Dr. Tiller George Tiller is frequently described as "controversial." But in the tight-knit world of abortion providers and among the women under his care, he was often called a saint. June 2, 2009 | | web only Judicial Abstraction Republicans talk so much about "judicial activism" because it's a dog whistle to the base. Too bad that base is increasingly small and irrelevant. June 2, 2009 | | web only Detention Retention President Obama has tried to split the difference between comprehensive immigration-reform advocates and law-and-order types. But for immigrants in detention, not much has changed since the Bush era. June 2, 2009 | | web only Why Clinic Violence is Obama's Problem Dr. George Tiller's murder should push the federal government to get serious about fighting harassment of abortion providers. June 1, 2009 | | web only Obama's Honeymoon Nears Its End With a Supreme Court nomination in process and midterm fundraising already underway, Obama is about to learn that politics isn't just about being popular. May 29, 2009 | | web only The Soderbergh Experience In his new film, The Girlfriend Experience, Steven Soderbergh turns to his obsession with the metaphor of economics as prostitution. May 29, 2009 | | web only The North Korea Conundrum How do you solve a problem like Korea? With great difficulty. May 28, 2009 | | web only The Empathy Dodge Conservative jurists are just as guilty of displaying the soft touch -- it's just reserved for those with money and power. May 27, 2009 | | web only It's Gingrich Time The return of the former House speaker is not only due to the leadership vacuum in the GOP. Republicans are back in opposition, and nobody opposes quite like Newt. May 27, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 82) This week in religion and politics: Culture warriors prepare to battle over "judicial activist" Sonia Sotomayor's Court nomination, and the religious right reacts to California's Prop. 8 ruling. May 27, 2009 | | web only Exit Strategy A new study assessing the withdrawal method finds it is nearly as effective as condoms. Should we teach it to teenagers? May 26, 2009 | | web only Honor Military Families with Adequate Health Care The VA is still operating as if all of its patients are young, childless, and male -- and veterans' families are paying the price. May 23, 2009 | | web only Obama, Your Party Isn't Behind You (And That's OK) Senate Democrats' rejection of Obama's plan to close Guantanamo shouldn't be cause for worry. May 22, 2009 | | web only What the Guantánamo Speech Means for Civil Liberties TAP Online talks with the ACLU's Anthony Romero about Obama's proposed changes to national security policy. May 22, 2009 | | web only Organizing the Unemployed During past recessions, collective action among laid-off workers was common. Will this financial crisis foster a similar movement? May 21, 2009 | | web only Did Your Car Cause the Crisis? The threat posed by expensive oil hasn't disappeared; it stands ready to derail a fledgling economic recovery this year and handcuff growth until Americans break their decades-long petroleum habit. May 21, 2009 | | web only Going After the Perpetrators of the Housing Bubble State attorneys general, like Massachusetts' Martha Coakley, are leading the charge to hold accountable the lenders behind the current economic crisis. May 20, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 81) This week in religion and politics: Obama's Notre Dame speech shines attention on his relationship with religious constituencies, and anti-Muslim propaganda is making the rounds once again. May 20, 2009 | | web only The Health-Care Time Warp With the health-care debate underway once again, Republicans are dusting off the same rhetorical playbook they used during the Clinton years. May 19, 2009 | | web only Is Homophobia the New Anti-Semitism? As the gay-rights movement has been globalized, so has religious and political opposition to homosexuality. May 19, 2009 | | web only Can Obama Influence Netanyahu? As recent domestic battles show, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caves easily to political pressure. But does he feel pressure to resolve the Palestinian crisis? May 18, 2009 | | web only How Hate Groups Went Mainstream In his new book, David Neiwert charts the rise of paranoid, hate-focused rhetoric on the right. May 15, 2009 | | web only Dick Cheney Just Wants To Be Loved Dick Cheney's attempts at public redemption have a logical root in his Cold War experience. May 15, 2009 | | web only Denial Island National-security concerns aren't the only reason -- or even the best reason -- to worry about the climate crisis. But they are real. May 14, 2009 | | web only The Trouble with Double X Is the niche-ification of the Internet amplifying or ghettoizing women's voices? May 14, 2009 | | web only Sex Work Two new biographies -- one of Helen Gurley Brown and the other of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson -- offer cautionary tales about mixing sex and the workplace. May 14, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 80) This week in religion and politics: Religious leaders react to evangelicals' permissive attitudes toward torture, and the Notre Dame commencement controversy stokes the abortion-reduction debate. May 13, 2009 | | web only Not Even Chuck Norris Can Save the GOP Celebrities and everymans are the pundits of choice for the GOP. Is it any wonder Republicans are directionless? May 12, 2009 | | web only Obama: Stay Away From Notre Dame's Commencement Abortion has nothing to do with it. A progressive president shouldn't support an institution that reserves 25 percent of its admissions seats for legacies. May 12, 2009 | | web only How Do Americans Really Feel About God? The religious right's era of unquestioning Christianity is over. In fact, Americans have incredibly complex feelings about God and country. May 11, 2009 | | web only Obama v. the Republican Party The president can name the most agreeable of moderates as his Supreme Court nominee, and Senate Republicans will still put up a fight. May 8, 2009 | | web only Cramdown's Downfall Bankers are making it hard for Obama to limit foreclosures -- but he's not doing much in the way of fighting back. May 7, 2009 | | web only A "Post-Racial" Assault on Voting Rights It is minority voters -- not Southern municipalities -- who need the protection of the Supreme Court. May 6, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 79) This week in religion and politics: More evidence emerges of aggressive proselytizing in the military, and the religious right wants to cause trouble for Obama's Supreme Court nominee. May 6, 2009 | | web only A Taxing Argument Republicans think they'll revive their party by repeating the refrain of "small government, lower taxes." Unfortunately for them, taxation isn't quite the problem they imagine it to be. May 5, 2009 | | web only A Long, Uncivil War In her new book, former ACLU board member Wendy Kaminer goes after the organization and its current director. But in mixing the personal with the political, does she miss the real challenges facing the group in the wake of the Bush administration? May 5, 2009 | | web only Race, Voting Rights, and the Genius of Justice Souter Justice David Souter doesn't care for politics, but he understands the politics of race better than his colleagues to his left or his right. May 4, 2009 | | web only In the Court's Best Interest The Supreme Court nomination process isn't about finding the "best" candidate -- it's about finding the right fit. May 4, 2009 | | web only Neglecting the Swine Flu Frontlines Stimulus spending couldn't have hit the ground fast enough to avert the current swine flu crisis. But moderate senators -- including new Democrat Arlen Specter -- still have a lot to answer for in terms of their lack of support for local public-health funding. May 4, 2009 | | web only Specter's Epilogue Arlen Specter's move to the left isn't a chapter in the Republican Party's decline -- the story has already played itself out. May 1, 2009 | | web only Reclaiming Religion Two new books respond to the anti-religion screeds of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. But are attempts to reclaim Christianity for humanism mere wishful thinking? April 30, 2009 | | web only Will Public Media Survive Where Mainstream Media Failed? We must construct a public media network capable of informing and engaging our citizenry. April 30, 2009 | | web only Do Conservatives Understand Torture? Conservatives don't actually support torture. They just think it's a useful tool. Too bad they're wrong. April 30, 2009 | | web only Defining Public Media for the Future Four experts discuss what "public media" means -- and what it will look like in the future. April 30, 2009 | | web only The Myth of 100 Days To a transformational president, each day is a blessed opportunity, none more or less important than another. April 29, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 78) This week in religion and politics: Religious drama surrounds Kathleen Sebelius' Cabinet confirmation, and the "religious left" seems to lean toward the right. April 29, 2009 | | web only Trickle-Down Politics The influence held by partisan elites is a disperse -- but far-reaching -- kind of power. April 28, 2009 | | web only Obama's Foreign Policy at 100 Obama has reprioritized U.S. interests and the strategies used to achieve them. April 28, 2009 | | web only Obama's Domestic Policy at 100 At the home office, Obama's hundred days have been a whirlwind of activity, but the big fights come next. April 28, 2009 | | web only Listening to Ahmadinejad The Iranian president wraps his Holocaust denial in legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy. That makes dealing with him much more difficult -- and requires a change in Israel's attitude. April 28, 2009 | | web only Seeking Justice in a System that Doesn't Guarantee It How do we hold police and local governments accountable for the backlog of untested rape kits? April 27, 2009 | | web only Moving Beyond Black and White on the Armenian Genocide What are outside resolutions doing to further the conversation in Turkey on the Armenian genocide? April 24, 2009 | | web only Lessons from the GOP in Retrograde The modern-day Republican Party is not so much a political party as it is a cautionary tale. April 24, 2009 | | web only Refusing a Single Narrative There are multiple accounts of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Making peace is not a matter of choosing one side's story over the other's. April 23, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 77) This week in religion and politics: Church leaders speak out against torture, and why the "religious conscience" of gays and lesbians apparently doesn't matter. April 22, 2009 | | web only The Unlikely Revolutionary Economist Simon Johnson isn't a populist. He just thinks bankers run the country. April 22, 2009 | | web only What's the Problem with Gary Gensler? The political jockeying over his nomination to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has obscured the key question: What is the best way to regulate the sprawling derivatives market? April 21, 2009 | | web only Is the Threat of Homegrown Extremism Real? Government needs to watch fringe political groups more closely -- but can it do so without abusing its surveillance power? April 21, 2009 | | web only It's the End of the World As They Know It The American right appears to be going insane. And over what? April 21, 2009 | | web only The Argument Over Inequality By allowing income inequality to dramatically increase, the myth of individual exceptionalism undermines society on the whole. April 20, 2009 | | web only Women and Children First Two new books chronicle the damage done -- at home and abroad -- by the rise of religious fundamentalism in America. April 17, 2009 | | web only Accounts of Torture, Abstract and Experienced TAP compares the "enhanced interrogation" memos to Red Cross accounts of what happened. April 17, 2009 | | web only The First Cut Is the Deepest We should be paying attention to the very real cuts Secretary Gates has proposed to outdated, oversized Cold War-era projects. April 16, 2009 | | web only Report Card on Civil Liberties Obama pledged to reject the Bush administration's fast-and-loose adherence to constitutional rights. How is he doing? April 15, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 76) The anti-gay-marriage argument unravels and Glenn Beck says it's the end of the world as we know it. April 15, 2009 | | web only We've Already Won the Battle Over Gay Marriage Public support for marriage equality is on the rise, and it is conservatives who are ceding ground. April 14, 2009 | | web only The Questioning Spirit Hebrew schools have long discouraged American Jewish children from thinking critically about Israel. This Passover season, it is time for a change. April 14, 2009 | | web only The Combat Within: Female Veterans and PTSD Benefits Given the rate of sexual assault of female soldiers, it's time to start acknowledging that not only combat veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress. April 13, 2009 | | web only Outside Activism, Reconsidered Have outsiders helped or hindered the Gulf Coast's recovery? Six activists discuss the influx of post-Katrina volunteers and their role in the rebuilding process. April 10, 2009 | | web only Portrait of Misogyny A recently released documentary on Cindy Sherman illustrates the misogyny still pervasive in the art world today. April 10, 2009 | | web only Republicans Tripping Conservative critics used Obama's recent diplomatic trip to demonize the president. Unfortunately for them, their histrionics don't seem to be working. April 10, 2009 | | web only Netanyahu Returns Benjamin Netanyahu is in power once again, but is he in control? After just a week back in office, Israel's prime minister is already revealing his weaknesses. April 9, 2009 | | web only Which Union Do I Belong To Now? The nation's largest unions are involved in a complicated negotiation over a possible super federation. Meanwhile, clashes over organizing strategy and resources continue. April 9, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 75) The culture wars aren't coming to a close, "common ground" isn't common at all, and "abortion reduction" is still misleading rhetoric. April 8, 2009 | | web only Five Lessons Britain Can Learn From Obama As the president returns to the U.S., here are the lessons the U.K., and Europe as a whole, should take from his historic election. April 7, 2009 | | web only The President's Aesthetic Goes Global Elements of the Obama campaign's design have become nearly as iconic as the president himself. April 7, 2009 | | web only Is Foreign Aid a Bad Thing? Dead Aid author Dambisa Moyo is right to be critical of the current state of foreign aid. But she's dead wrong in calling for it to be cut off within five years, which would be catastrophic for Africa. April 7, 2009 | | web only Is Turkey the Key to a New Middle East Approach? By putting a stop in Ankara on his first European tour, Obama has demonstrated that he's taking a fresh diplomatic approach to both Turkey and the Middle East. April 6, 2009 | | web only Evan Bayh's Budget Hypocrisy What Evan Bayh says he wants out of the budget is less important than how he actually votes. April 6, 2009 | | web only The Trillion-Dollar Question Rather than ask how to better conduct our costly wars, the Obama administration should focus on getting out of them. April 3, 2009 | | web only Why Are Democrats Undermining Obama's Diplomatic Plans for Iran? The members of Congress calling for the United States to set a time table for Iran to suspend its uranium-enrichment program are missing the point. April 2, 2009 | | web only Dayton, Part II? Thirteen years after Bosnia's wars, the Dayton Peace Agreement is under attack as outmoded and unsustainable. But is there any better solution on offer? April 2, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 74) This week in religion and politics: Extremist Catholics attempt to ruin the graduation of moderate ones, and theo-conservatism threatens rational policy. April 1, 2009 | | web only Reversing Rockefeller New York is set to repeal some of its harsh drug-offense-sentencing laws. But do the reforms go far enough? April 1, 2009 | | web only Is Merit Pay a Distraction in the Fight for Meaningful Education Reform? Merit pay is the hot topic in education policy. But we should be skeptical of single-faceted solutions to multifaceted problems. March 31, 2009 | | web only Who's Afraid of New Media? Obama hasn't shied away from engaging with the new vanguard of media. And the only people who seem bothered by this choice? Old-media reporters. March 31, 2009 | | web only The End of the Women's Movement The era of the singular feminist agenda is over. But that doesn't mean gender-based activism is. March 30, 2009 | | web only We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes We cannot achieve meaningful electoral reform until we can quantify exactly what is wrong with the system. March 27, 2009 | | web only Mind the Wage Gap While we've been wracked with angst about the failures of the financial system, it is the slow collapse of the wage economy that may have brought us to this ugly point. March 27, 2009 | | web only Why We Need a Commission on Presidential Power We should not look upon presidential lawlessness as if it were an odd aberration of the Bush years. March 26, 2009 | | web only The Testimony from Gaza Israeli soldiers' accounts of the fighting last winter further undermine the official rationale of the war. March 26, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 73) This week in religion and politics: Progressive faithful call for an "ethical audit" of Wall Street, and Newt Gingrich "reinvents" the conservative movement. March 25, 2009 | | web only He Won't Back Down This week's briefing showed one thing for sure -- the Obama administration isn't afraid of the scale of its ambitions. March 25, 2009 | | web only Can a Click Replace a Glance? Newspapers offered a serendipitous reading experience that online formats haven't managed to replicate. March 24, 2009 | | web only Ten Radical Remedies America Needs Obama must use his leadership to make necessary radical ideas mainstream. These changes are essential if we are to build an economy of broad prosperity. March 24, 2009 | | web only The 50-Vote Senate Could an obscure Senate rule free Barack Obama from the filibuster and enable health-care reform? March 23, 2009 | | web only Rating Agencies, Discredited The major credit raters helped fuel the sub-prime mortgage crisis by saying risky assets were safe bets. So why is the government now relying on their help to rescue the economy? March 20, 2009 | | web only The Persuasion Broker In a city littered with liberal dreams gone awry, one social entrepreneur has been getting it right for almost 50 years. March 20, 2009 | | web only Tell Us a Story, Mr. President What we need now is for Obama to tell us what success would look like coming out of this financial crisis. March 20, 2009 | | web only Against Surge Logic Why do we need another surge in Afghanistan? Because we've done nothing but resort to surges in the past. March 19, 2009 | | web only How Obama Should Approach the G-20 President Barack Obama's first international conference is less than two weeks away, and the stakes could not be higher. March 18, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 72) This week in religion and politics: The honeymoon may be over for Obama and evangelical "centrists." March 18, 2009 | | web only When Slim Budgets Mean Better Prisons As states around the country look for ways to cut spending, could shrinking prison populations via more effective re-entry programs be the answer? March 18, 2009 | | web only Inconvenient Contraception For millions of women, getting birth control is a laborious process. Would making the pill an over-the-counter drug be the best policy fix? March 17, 2009 | | web only So Long, Alex P. Keaton The millennial generation could pull American politics even further to the left, and for a longer time, than the Reagan generation pulled our politics to the right. March 17, 2009 | | web only A Radical Vision for the Council on Girls and Women We need to shift our priorities on women's issues, and the new White House Council for Women and Girls can be the catalyst. March 16, 2009 | | web only Nothing Will Save You Now, Michael Steele It is hard to envision any explanation that would save the RNC chair from the wrath of the extreme right. March 13, 2009 | | web only On the Road to Nowhere The Prospect talks to Mariia Zimmerman about the difference between spending infrastructure money quickly and spending it well. March 12, 2009 | | web only His Uniform, My Responsibility My son's induction into the Israeli army makes politics even more personal than before. March 12, 2009 | | web only Worse than 1929? If government doesn't do more, and fast, the country could be in worse shape than it was during the 1930s. March 12, 2009 | | web only Is Loan Modification Enough? Critics on both the left and the right are concerned that the administration's focus on reducing the monthly payments for borrowers isn't a good solution. March 11, 2009 | | web only Will Van Jones Work in the White House? Van Jones has been agitating for a green agenda as a lifeline for the dying ghettos of America. Will he be effective making policy on Capitol Hill? March 11, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 71) This week in religion and politics: Anti-abortion activists dislike Kathleen Sebelius, stem-cell research gets funding, and the ranks of atheists and evangelicals both swell. March 11, 2009 | | web only The Tiny Battles of a Has-Been Candidate Back in November, John McCain lost the presidential election by a significant margin. So why are we still paying attention to him? March 10, 2009 | | web only Obama's Middle East Chess Game Obama's early Middle East strategy is about generating favorable options through diplomacy. March 10, 2009 | | web only Working Toward Health Reform SEIU head Andy Stern discusses labor's approach to health care reform, disunity within the movement, and the skittishness of business. March 9, 2009 | | web only It's Not Iran; It's Palestine Israeli consensus on priorities is dangerously out of line with reality. March 5, 2009 | | web only The NAACP Takes a Stance Against Prop. 8 The national office of the NAACP took its first stance on gay-marriage rights, reinvigorating the debate over gay rights in the black community. March 4, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 70) The religious right still runs the Republican Party, Obama is the "socialist Antichrist," and Muslims struggle to find their place within the conservative movement. March 4, 2009 | | web only Repairing Housing Policy If the Obama administration is to revive the economy, it must prevent further foreclosures. While the housing plan may be a step forward, is it comprehensive enough to end the housing crisis? March 3, 2009 | | web only Believe It or Not, He's Walking on Air Obama is looking more and more like a progressive Reagan. What does that say about the progressives who rallied to elect him? March 3, 2009 | | web only The Trouble with Outside Activists Do-gooders from out of state are still flocking to help New Orleans rebuild. Are they actually doing as much harm as they are good? March 2, 2009 | | web only A Good Working Environment The labor and environmental movements have historically been at odds. But the creation of the green-jobs program may finally unite the two groups' interests. February 27, 2009 | | web only Disunite There UNITE HERE is splitting apart in a bitter civil war that pits the UNITE side against the HERE side in a vicious, ugly fight. Worse, this battle involves some of the savviest and most dedicated union leaders and staffers ever to work in American labor. February 27, 2009 | | web only A Condensed History of Labor Since the 1960s The labor movement faced few extraordinary struggles during the second half of the 20th century. Now, an intra-union conflict is set to be the most dramatic clash in decades. February 27, 2009 | | web only Why Can't Mothers Be Intellectuals? Critics of the first volume of Susan Sontag's journals have found her ambition outsized and formidable. Is that really because she mixed intellectual ambition with motherhood? February 27, 2009 | | web only The New Terms of the Labor Dialogue TAP talks to Kate Bronfenbrenner, a labor specialist at Cornell, about what EFCA means for women, the media war over the bill, and Obama's trade team. February 26, 2009 | | web only The Blight of Bagram Human-rights advocates expected Obama to reverse the previous administration's position on detention. But a recent decision involving prisoners in Afghanistan suggests that undoing Bush-era policy may take more time than expected. February 26, 2009 | | web only Netanyahu, Cornered Benjamin Netanyahu is politically trapped. Israel's new leader is tasked with balancing the interests of his right-wing coalition, appeasing his rivals, and maintaining a healthy relationship with America. February 26, 2009 | | web only A Housing Rescue Long Overdue For nearly two years, the housing market has struggled -- and helped take the rest of the economy down with it. Now, an unlikely trio of officials may finally have a plan that can stop this crisis. February 25, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 69) This week in religion and politics: Medicaid coverage for abortion continues to stir controversy, and are "homegrown" sex education programs in Texas unconstitutional? February 25, 2009 | | web only There Is No Social Security Crisis Critics of Social Security have long perpetuated the myth that the system will eventually go bankrupt. It's time to dispel that claim once and for all. February 24, 2009 | | web only How Entitlement Reform Became Health Reform Why progressives should stop worrying and learn to love today's White House Fiscal Summit. February 23, 2009 | | web only How Women Built the Law In his new book, Fred Strebeigh chronicles the struggle for equality of the sexes under law, all while personalizing the pioneers who fought for it. February 20, 2009 | | web only Rescuing America's Homeowners On Wednesday, Obama announced his plan to stem foreclosures across the nation. But what exactly does it hold in store for homeowners? February 20, 2009 | | web only The Monumentally Egomaniacal Senator from Illinois Roland Burris, who rode into the Senate on the strength of the most cynical, race-based political ploys of all time, is having a hard time seeing the trouble he's in. February 20, 2009 | | web only Time for a Global Stimulus The world needs a coordinated response to the current economic crisis, in which each country commits to undertake stimulus that's appropriate to the size of its economy and to its position in the global balance of trade. February 19, 2009 | | web only Beyond the Foreclosure Crisis HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan is tasked with fixing a policy in shambles. Will his bold agenda be enough to solve the housing crisis? February 18, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 68) This week in religion and politics: Civil-liberties groups soften their criticism of faith-based initiatives and the OFBNP's Advisory Council comes into conflict with feminists. February 18, 2009 | | web only The Tyranny of the Centrists You'd think passing a $787 billion stimulus bill would count as a victory for Obama. But it was the centrists who got what they wanted from the stimulus bill, and what they wanted was for the entire nation to beseech them for their favor. February 17, 2009 | | web only Reflections on Obama-Era Patriotism Loving your country does not mean waving a flag and singing the anthem. True patriotism comes in the form of genuine, once-and-for-all integration. February 16, 2009 | | web only Ending the Compromise Era on AIDS The removal of Mark Dybul as head of the federal AIDS program shows that the era of compromising with the religious right on global HIV prevention is over. February 13, 2009 | | web only The Ghost of Democratic Agenda Echoes of another liberal turning point were felt at last week's Thinking Big conference. February 13, 2009 | | web only The Power of Political Personality Puncturing an iconic image of a revolutionary, Steven Soderbergh's Che operates as a meditation on political power in the everyday. February 13, 2009 | | web only "25 Random Things" About the Stimulus Package The stimulus package illuminated -- Facebook-style. February 13, 2009 | | web only The Real Economics of Immigration Reform By ignoring the role of immigration policy in our economic situation, Americans are actually hurting themselves. February 12, 2009 | | web only Advice for the New Drug Czar Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske is Obama's pick to head the Office of National Drug Control. We're not sure whether to offer congratulations or condolences. February 12, 2009 | | web only Why Are the Israeli PM Candidates Fighting for the Support of This Man? Forget about the struggle between Tzipi Livni and Benjamin Netanyahu. The man who has really won is Avigdor Lieberman. February 12, 2009 | | web only What Went Wrong for Tim Geithner Tim Geithner was supposed to be the answer to all our financial woes. Why, then, did the markets panic after he announced his plans for TARP? February 11, 2009 | | web only The TARP Dog and Pony Show With no clear strategy, the new bank-rescue plan offers only more uncertainty. February 11, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 67) This week in religion and politics: Obama gives the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships a broader policy role, and anti-evolution activists on Darwin's 200th birthday. February 11, 2009 | | web only Towards an Economics of Shared Prosperity A manifesto on long-term economic recovery from the Thinking Big, Thinking Forward conference. February 10, 2009 | | web only Time to Think Big The current economic crisis presents a challenge, but it also offers an opportunity. Rather than merely patch up a broken system, America should build an economy that provides opportunity for all. February 10, 2009 | | web only Good Work, If You Can Get It Every national politician, in good times and bad, will talk about "jobs." But as the current debate on the stimulus has shown, not everybody has the same understanding of what a "job" is. February 10, 2009 | | web only The Myth of Bipartisanship Given the consistent failure of compromise between Republicans and Democrats, it might be time to take away the minority's most harmful weapon: the filibuster. February 9, 2009 | | web only Obama's Republican Hit List President Barack Obama won the districts of 46 congressional Republicans on Election Day. Has anyone noticed? February 9, 2009 | | web only Michael Steele Will Not Save Your Party Michael Steele accurately diagnosed the GOP's troubles as an "identity crisis." But it is difficult to see how Steele solves that problem for the party. February 6, 2009 | | web only How the Stimulus Screws Commuters By allocating transportation funding to highways instead of public transit, Congress is missing a very big opportunity to improve the stimulus package economically and environmentally. February 5, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 66) This week in religion and politics: Calling the next Martin Luther King Jr., progressive religious leaders speak out on policy, and Focus on the Family stands up for Limbaugh. February 4, 2009 | | web only Limbaugh vs. Obama With a new Democratic administration and Democratic majorities in Congress, Limbaugh is right back where he wants to be -- on the outside. February 3, 2009 | | web only Why Ledbetter Isn't Enough The passage of the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was a victory for workers' rights. But it doesn't correct big loopholes in gender-discrimination law that leave workers vulnerable. February 3, 2009 | | web only What's the Matter With Teen Sexting? Sex and predatory adults are not the biggest dangers teenagers face online. Their main risk is garden-variety kid-on-kid meanness. February 2, 2009 | | web only The Big Business of Family Detention It's not just alleged terrorists who are suffering from our inhumane treatment of detainees. It's also children. February 2, 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 The 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 A Pass for Geithner Tim Geithner received a remarkably light grilling at yesterday's Senate confirmation hearings. January 22, 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 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 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 The Prospect on Barack Obama The best of our writing on the 44th president of the United States. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 End of the Divorce? Union presidents move to reunite a divided labor movement. January 8, 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 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 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 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 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 I Love Christmas Music Yes, I'm Jewish, and no, the love is not ironic. Christmas music is about winter, and nostalgia. It's an aural blanket, a cup of sonic cocoa on a cold day. December 24, 2008 | | web only The Public Option and the Hope of Health Care Reform Democrats' discussion of health care reform points to just how much the debate over health care reform has moved forward. December 23, 2008 | | web only The Rebel Prince Benjamin Netanyahu is the front-runner in Israel's election. Will voters notice that a radical rightist has hijacked Netanyahu's Likud party? December 23, 2008 | | web only America's New Year's Resolution: A Return to Integrity As we prepare to usher in a new year and a new administration, let's all pledge to rediscover our moral way in this country. December 22, 2008 | | web only Will Environmental Justice Finally Get Its Due? Obama's environment, energy, and urban affairs appointees are poised to enact policies that environmental justice activists have long been pushing for. December 22, 2008 | | web only Learning From the New Deal's Mistakes The New Deal was, for the most part, phenomenally successful, but there are many ways it could have gone further or been better organized -- failings it is critical we avoid this time around. December 22, 2008 | | web only Negotiating Duty Nothing But the Truth, the new fictionalized film about the Judith Miller scandal, leaves out nuance in favor of neat drama. December 19, 2008 | | web only No Education Silver Bullet In the United States, the education debate has been framed as a zero-sum game. But a look at Finland, whose schools rank No. 1 in global surveys, shows that a national commitment to education can neutralize political debates over school reform. December 18, 2008 | | web only How Bush Failed Somalia Two years ago the United States intervened in East African politics in a way that has created the pirate problem and is breeding a new generation of anti-American jihadists. December 18, 2008 | | web only The Great Persuader Obama's recently announced HUD secretary, Shaun Donovan, has an impressive record of bringing stakeholders together to create affordable housing, but can he reform HUD's moribund bureaucracy? December 18, 2008 | | web only A Tame Regulator for the SEC Appointing a safe, Wall Street favorite like Mary Schapiro to chair the SEC does not augur well for Obama's pledge to get at the roots of the financial crisis. December 18, 2008 | | web only The Shia Religious State The Bush administration and its supporters hailed the recently signed security pact between the U.S. and Iraqi governments as a major milestone. But the agreement revealed who the most powerful forces in the new Iraq really are. December 17, 2008 | | web only Unions Come to Smithfield On Dec. 11, Smithfield workers were not just celebrating a vote count. They'd just defeated one of the longest, most bitter anti-union campaigns in modern U.S. labor history. December 17, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 61) Democrats' love of evangelicals, Rick Warren's never-ending quest to discern Purpose-Driven Thinking, and conservatives on Twitter. December 17, 2008 | | web only Nobody Here But Us Post-Partisans Barack Obama hasn't even taken office yet, and progressives are already debating his presidency. Does it matter if Barack Obama doesn't call his policies progressive? December 16, 2008 | | web only The Truth About Abortion Reduction A coalition of evangelicals and Catholics is trying to lay claim to Obama's reproductive-freedom agenda. Here's how the debate is likely to play out in 2009. December 16, 2008 | | web only Bailouts: The Ultimate Double Standard The auto industry is being put through the wringer for relatively modest public aid, while the Treasury has taken a hands-off approach to the much larger bailout of the financial industry. December 15, 2008 | | web only The Last Undecided Election On Tuesday the Minnesota state canvassing board will begin examining challenged ballots in what hopefully is the final round of deliberations in the Senate race between GOP incumbent Norm Coleman and comedian Al Franken, the Democrat. December 15, 2008 | | web only The Truths That Television Can Tell Ron Howard's new film, Frost/Nixon serves as a daring argument about the way TV can be most virtuous precisely when it acts most like TV. December 12, 2008 | | web only Feminist Media in a Time of Economic Trouble TAP Online talks with Bitch magazine co-founder Andi Zeisler about her new book, "sexy" feminist issues, and the fate of feminist magazines like Bitch and Ms. in an economic downturn. December 12, 2008 | | web only Health Care Heavyweights By appointing Tom Daschle and Jeanne Lambrew, Obama isn't just signaling that he is serious about health care, he's putting it in the hands of people who will get it done. December 12, 2008 | | web only The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care Forget what reform will cost -- we have to understand the price of a broken system. December 12, 2008 | | web only Will Labor Get What it Wants From Obama? Despite the fact that Obama may wait on some of their priorities, union officials remain positive about the prospects for labor under Obama. December 11, 2008 | | web only The Sit-Down Strike Returns! Now What? Chicago workers' use of occupation to battle with their employer was successful, but labor needs more than the return of 1930s tactics to reclaim power. December 11, 2008 | | web only Palestinian Presidential Follies Obama can't wait until the inauguration to respond to the Palestinian political crisis. December 11, 2008 | | web only Green Standards Aren't Just for Detroit As Congress looks to attach environmental requirements to the automaker bailout, it should consider not just the Northern Big Three manufacturers but also the Southern Big Three: Honda, Hyundai, and Mercedes Benz. December 10, 2008 | | web only What Was Blagojevich Thinking? Did Blago really think intimidating the Tribune would go unnoticed? How did he get re-elected? A primer on Chicago-style corruption from a veteran Chicago political reporter. December 10, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 60) Blackwell runs for RNC chair, liberals propose revamped faith-based initiatives, and Newsweek argues that the Bible condones gay marriage. December 10, 2008 | | web only The Reformer and the Racketeer Obama is not the first president to come from a corrupt political world. Voters understand that reformers, by definition, emerge from places in need of reform. December 10, 2008 | | web only Government Is Back On Jan. 20 the Age of Reagan ends, and the Age of Obama begins. We don't know if it will last, but we do know that conservatives can no longer force everyone to play by their rules. December 9, 2008 | | web only As Politics Evolves, Punditry Stalls Obama has made a point of appointing a diverse group of thinkers to his cabinet. But what about the diversity of opinion outside the White House? December 8, 2008 | | web only How the Democrats Protected the Independent Agencies Independent agencies are a supposedly apolitical "fourth branch" of government, but the Bush administration tried to politicize them by appointing ideologues to run them. Here's how Democrats fought back. December 8, 2008 | | web only Milk and the Idea of California Gus Van Sant's new film Milk, about the rise of gay rights icon Harvey Milk, goes far toward explaining why the passage of Prop. 8 was such a deep blow to the gay rights community. December 5, 2008 | | web only He's Black, Get Over It We may not have chosen to be a hybrid people, anymore than we chose to come here in the first place, but that's what we are now. And it's a beautiful thing. December 5, 2008 | | web only Where Is the Left? So far, Obama has made no cabinet appointments that are intended to appeal to the left wing of the party. Will that change? December 5, 2008 | | web only Why Jim Jones Will Make or Break Obama's Foreign Policy Successful presidents rely on strong national security advisers who can produce a unified strategy while allowing healthy debate. December 4, 2008 | | web only Bush's Pity Party In a Dec. 1 interview with ABC News' Charlie Gibson, Bush said that "the biggest regret" of his presidency was "the intelligence failure in Iraq." In other words, his biggest regret wasn't regret over anything he did but rather regret over something that was done to him. December 4, 2008 | | web only Death of the Comrade, and of the Party Is the Labor Party of Israel on the verge of becoming history? With elections set for Feb. 10, polls show the party fading away. December 4, 2008 | | web only Will the Mumbai Terrorists Get What They Wanted? As India's government reacts to the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, tensions with Pakistan seem certain to increase -- just what the attackers hoped for. December 4, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 59) Obama's support for LBGT rights angers conservatives, Latino evangelicals mobilize against gay marriage, and Palin boosters plot 2012 campaign. December 3, 2008 | | web only Obama and Liberals' Fears The 2008 election was defined as much by things that didn't happen -- from racism denying Obama the presidency to working-class men finding him too elitist -- as things that did. December 2, 2008 | | web only Why We Need EFCA Despite its paltry membership, the U.S. labor movement remains the nation's most potent force for progressive change and the most effective vehicle for electing Democrats. December 2, 2008 | | web only How to Repair Our Relationship With Europe Our relationships with the countries of the EU have been marred by a lack of actual diplomacy from the Bush administration. November 26, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList Thanksgiving Special A look back at the most important developments in the religious right over the past year. November 26, 2008 | | web only Green or Die TAP Online talks with the Rev. Lennox Yearwood about the cost of environmental degradation on communities of color, how to change the consumerist culture of hip-hop, and what Obama owes the hip-hop generation. November 26, 2008 | | web only Let the Conservative Whining Begin During eight years of Republican rule, conservative talkers had to work hard to find people to blame for the nation's troubles. That won't be a problem anymore. November 25, 2008 | | web only The House of Dispute A house in Hebron has become the site of the latest battle over settlements in the West Bank. In a ruling last week, Israel's Supreme Court gave residents three days to clear out voluntarily, or face eviction. November 25, 2008 | | web only Michelle Obama and Military Families The incoming first lady is poised to make veterans' affairs one of her top issues -- and we could all take a cue from her. November 24, 2008 | | web only The Case for Keeping the Big Three Out of Bankruptcy Whatever the moral claim of UAW members and retirees to their paychecks and pensions, it's their sheer number that requires the government to keep the Big Three, for now, out of bankruptcy court. November 24, 2008 | | web only Why Waxman Won Henry Waxman's defeat of John Dingell wasn't the first time he has defeated a more senior member of Congress -- he and his fellow California Democrats have been challenging the seniority system since the 1970s. November 21, 2008 | | web only Don't Be Afraid of Joe the Senator We shouldn't worry that Joe Lieberman has gained anything by hanging on to his chairmanship. While he will head a powerful and important committee, Lieberman has no margin for error. November 21, 2008 | | web only How Do We Keep Obama's Youth Mobilized? Barack Obama's campaign politicized and organized more youth than any campaign has in recent history. Nine youth organizers, writers, and progressive-policy thinkers show us how to keep them engaged. November 20, 2008 | | web only A Drama-Free Transition? Obama's transition is downright ... boring. The real news is that it's been an unusually straightforward transition, and one that promises to maintain the contemporary presidential tradition of concentrating power in the White House. November 20, 2008 | | web only The Fundamentalist (No. 58) Religious conservatives plan to start new organizing efforts outside the Republican Party and Mike Huckabee settles some scores from the 2008 campaign. November 19, 2008 | | web only Can Obama Make Wonks and Hacks Work Together? After eight years in the wilderness, the reality-based community is back in charge. Now they have a chance to prove that they know what they're doing. November 18, 2008 | | web only The Identity Blame Game It's Cabinet speculation time, and the valiant defenders of the place of white men in the Democratic Party are worried, once again, that women, people of color, and gay folks will screw it all up for them. November 18, 2008 | | web only Advocating for Urbanism Obama has promised to create a White House Office of Urban Policy. What will this look like? Who will run it? November 18, 2008 | | web only The Summers Bubble The selection of Larry Summers as treasury secretary would send a message that Wall Street is more powerful in the Obama administration than the progressive coalition that brought him to power. November 17, 2008 | | web only How Tom Perriello Showed Virgil Goode The Door Virginia's 5th District was supposed to be a safe Republican seat. So it was a definite upset when Democrat Tom Perriello squeaked out an apparent win. November 14, 2008 | | web only The Case for Putting a Mideast Peace Agreement First Barack Obama should address the need for an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement sooner rather than later. November 14, 2008 | | web only A Stimulus Everyone Can Love As Congress dithers, the economy continues to crumble. The consensus that we need a stimulus package has been undermined by deadlock over what should get funding. Here's a plan both sides can agree on. November 14, 2008 | | web only A Promising Partnership Previous presidents whose parties enjoyed large majorities in the House and Senate nonetheless had a troubled relationship with legislators. But Democrats have learned their lesson and seem eager to work closely with their new president. November 14, 2008 | | web only The Emerging Center-Left Majority Conservatives dismiss the notion that this election represents the solidifying of a center-left America. A new poll shows they are wrong. November 13, 2008 | | web only Who Will Replace Obama in the Senate? Voters may have elevated Obama to the presidency, but they don't get to pick his replacement -- that task goes to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Here is a rundown of the top contenders. November 13, 2008 | | web only Our House Democrats didn't just keep their House majority -- they expanded it. Now the DCCC and Nancy Pelosi face the messy business of legislating while looking ahead to the midterms. November 13, 2008 | | web only The Fundamentalist (No. 57) Religious conservatives plot takeover of Republican Party, atheists in the military ask Obama for protection from discrimination, and the culture wars get nasty in California. November 12, 2008 | | web only Goodbye and Good Riddance After eight years of President Bush, we almost don't know how to function without him -- almost. But before we move on, we should pause to remember just what we're leaving behind. November 11, 2008 | | web only A Round Table on Race, Gender, and the Election Join three Prospect writers as they discuss the fall-out of Barack Obama's historic victory, Sarah Palin's confusing candidacy, and the demographic shifts that are defining American politics. November 11, 2008 | | web only Getting to Sixty One not-so-secret weapon in building President Obama's filibuster-proof majority could be John McCain, as well as other frustrated GOP moderates. November 11, 2008 | | web only Distress Signal One Iraq veteran's suicide shows the human cost of the overburdened VA medical system, and the tragedies that occur when the care of veterans is delayed or insufficient. November 10, 2008 | | web only Grading the Election Theories Let's give some of the theories about how the election would turn out a post-final-exam assessment. November 10, 2008 | | web only The Democratic Majority Has Emerged Realignments are hard to see as they're happening, but the 2008 election showed that Latinos and labor can be the backbone of a durable liberal majority. November 10, 2008 | | web only The Most Crushing Losses Progressives won the White House -- but they didn't succeed everywhere. Here's a run down of where Democrats lost out on Tuesday. November 7, 2008 | | web only Does Rahm Emanuel's Pick Mean the Chicago Machine Is Coming to Washington? A look at Rahm Emanuel's and Barack Obama's relationship to the Daley machine. November 7, 2008 | | web only Up-Close and Personal in Iraq Dexter Filkins' new book provides an intimate and engrossing account of his time in Iraq. Why don't we read more like it in our newspapers? November 7, 2008 | | web only How to Break the Neocon Lock on Washington To succeed in putting forth a progressive foreign policy, Obama will need to reach out to moderate Republicans. November 6, 2008 | | web only Obama and Religious Voters Barack Obama won more support among religious voters than recent Democratic nominees have, but that doesn't mean narrowly targeted religious outreach is the best approach for future Democratic candidates. November 6, 2008 | | web only The Great Repudiator? If history is any guide, the next four years will be shaped by how Obama confronts the Bush administration's abuses of power. November 5, 2008 | | web only The Identity Politics Election Race, gender, and their discontents never went away, but thanks to this election, we're actually discussing them again. That's progress. November 5, 2008 | | web only The Most Unlikely President Barack Obama's candidacy forced us to confront the worst of our 9/11 fears and our lingering racism. November 5, 2008 | | web only The American Prospect 2008 Election Night Guide Keep our handy election night scoring guide close as the results trickle in. November 4, 2008 | | web only Why American Youth Will Vote Though we are sometimes too cool for our own good, the youth of America are also naive enough to hope. That's a good thing. November 4, 2008 | | web only Why We Vote Whatever problems our politics have, Election Day is a moment when we hope for the future and revel in the solemnity of the democratic process. November 4, 2008 | | web only Best of the 2008 Election Coverage Prospect writers on the policy battles, scandals and also-rans of the longest campaign season in recent memory. November 4, 2008 | | web only Rubin Rising Now that the financial crisis has damaged his reputation, deregulation-pusher and deficit-hawk Robert Rubin is on a quest to remake himself. November 4, 2008 | | web only The Power of the Advisory Council The Latino vote has already swung; McCain and Obama's Latino advisory boards could explain why. November 4, 2008 | | web only Five Ways We Talked About Race and Identity This Election Barack Obama's candidacy has sparked a complicated debate on race and ethnicity that needs to be carefully unpacked. November 4, 2008 | | web only Voter Protection, Twitter Style A new coalition is using Twitter to map problems faced by voters across the country and connect voters in need with election-protection groups. November 3, 2008 | | web only John McCain's Hillary Problem McCain has run his general election campaign by borrowing from Hillary Clinton's primary playbook, and the flaws of this decision have become all too apparent. November 3, 2008 | | web only |
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