Web Exclusives:December 2005A History of Carnage René Philoctète's novel about a Haitian massacre suffers from an excess of goodwill. December 30, 2005 | | web only Talking Trash From toxic waste to discarded automobiles, a journalist examines the refuse in our lives. TAP talks to Heather Rogers, author of Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. December 28, 2005 | | web only Undercover Scrooges A Christmas loyalist fires back in the War on Christmas. December 24, 2005 | | web only An All-American Christmas Irving Berlin invented the separation of church and song with “White Christmas.” December 22, 2005 | | web only European Tour Cindy Sheehan is surrounded by people who want to know, How'd that guy get re-elected? December 22, 2005 | | web only Hillary's Next Move Jeanine Pirro's disastrous campaign bodes well for Hillary. December 22, 2005 | | web only Invisible Children When mothers go to prison, their sons and daughters pay the price. TAP talks to Nell Bernstein, author of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated. December 22, 2005 | | web only Bad for Business Economic growth and strong civil liberties -- the two are inseparable. December 21, 2005 | | web only Keller Must Go And Pinch too? If the board of trustees of The New York Times wants to protect the institution they serve, they have some decisions to make. December 21, 2005 | | web only Miller's Tale From our January issue: How one effective and largely unsung congressman beat the president. December 20, 2005 | | web only The Extra-Legal Executive Bush wants to spread democracy abroad – and dismantle it at home. December 20, 2005 | | web only Remembering Proxmire Senator Proxmire had a good run, fighting government waste and defending the little guy. December 19, 2005 | | web only The Taxonomist The Fifth Annual Bush Tax Cut: How Big? How Bad? December 19, 2005 | | web only Hollywood's Coming-Out Is Brokeback Mountain a gay film? Well, that depends on what gay is. December 16, 2005 | | web only Starting Over From our January issue: The potential harm to the nation from a failed presidency complicates the oppositions' role. December 16, 2005 | | web only All The President's Friends From our January issue: Miller's gone, and Woodward is (voila!) forgiven. And the editors of our leading newspapers are clueless about the respect they've lost. December 15, 2005 | | web only Reed's Greed Ralph Reed is going down, down, down. And taking his GOP buddies with him. December 15, 2005 | | web only Medicaid and the Middle Class House Republicans find out that Medicaid isn't just for the poor. It also helps America's middle class stay out of poverty. December 15, 2005 | | web only The Arsonist From our January issue: In his first six months at the UN, John Bolton has offended allies, blocked crucial negotiations, undermined the Secretary of State -- and harmed U.S. interests. We expected bad; we didn't expect this bad. December 14, 2005 | | web only Justice, Texas Style What can happen if you're arrested in Tulia, Texas -- and you're young and black. TAP talks to Nate Blakeslee, author of Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town. December 14, 2005 | | web only The John & Curtiss Show How an all-American rock 'n' roll freak shook Minneapolis on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death. December 14, 2005 | | web only Truce Time What Harry Reid should tell Joe Lieberman and Howard Dean in their next conference call. December 13, 2005 | | web only Message Management Democrats need to devise a unified political strategy on Iraq before Republicans box them in. December 13, 2005 | | web only The New Rich-Rich Gap While the fortunes of CEOs and CFOs grow, other professionals are grappling with the pressures of globalization. December 12, 2005 | | web only Farewell, Filene's Boston will become just another town in the United States of Generica when its Filene's closes. December 12, 2005 | | web only Inside Syriana A bloated script manages to reveal the truth behind the CIA, Washington, and the global oil market. December 12, 2005 | | web only Black Contracts In this Prospect exclusive, a reporter sheds light on the murky world of CIA contracts and the Duke Cunningham investigation. December 10, 2005 | | web only A Soldier's Song During Vietnam, musicians sang about the plight of the soldier, and we listened. December 9, 2005 | | web only Preoccupied With 1985 Albums from three artists extend the pop legacy of the Reagan decade. December 9, 2005 | | web only Workers, Stiffed The new budget bills undermine the poor – especially those who are working hard. December 9, 2005 | | web only Free Fall Democrats should get out of the way and let the president sink on his own. December 9, 2005 | | web only A Tale of Two Tax Bills Both the House and Senate are considering multi-billion dollar tax proposals. December 8, 2005 | | web only Last Action Heroes W and Arnold are trying to weather an undeniably awful year. December 8, 2005 | | web only Bring It On How Bush, Cheney, and Rice misuse language, and other tidbits from Leslie Savan, author of Slam Dunks and No-Brainers. December 7, 2005 | | web only Search and Seizure The patriots at Google are watching you. December 6, 2005 | | web only Global Gangsters From counterfeit handbags to WMDs, the global economy is booming. TAP talks to Moisés Naím, author of Illicit. December 5, 2005 | | web only Let's Talk Football It's time for a real free market reform. December 5, 2005 | | web only No ‘Pulse' Little girls come out of television sets and little boys turn blue in Japanese horror films. December 2, 2005 | | web only Five Feminists The lives of women's rights advocates -- and their struggles to balance work and family -- over a hundred-year period. December 2, 2005 | | web only Endangering Roe There are many -- and subtle -- clues to an Alito court in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood. December 2, 2005 | | web only A Zbig Deal Democrats need a coherent foreign policy. Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski is here to help. December 1, 2005 | | web only Beyond Kyoto It's time to call Bush's bluff on global warming. December 1, 2005 | | web only |