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December 2006Rising Tide What the midterm election results tell us about Hispanic voters. December 22, 2006 | | web only Gunboat Diplomacy With warships, UN sanctions, and a new round of coordinated messaging, Washington steps up the pressure on Iran. December 22, 2006 | | web only Study Some More Before burying it, progressives should re-read the Iraq Study Group report over Christmas. There are productive ways to use its recommendations. December 22, 2006 | | web only Losing By Winning What one NLRB case this year tells us about our broken collective bargaining laws. December 21, 2006 | | web only Enemies' Echo The shared political stylings of George W. Bush and Hugo Chavez. December 21, 2006 | | web only Reaction Force The defection of nine Virginia parishes from the U.S. Episcopal Church marks just the latest chapter in the formation of an ecumenical Orthodox International. December 21, 2006 | | web only Cost of Giving It's time we revise the tax code to limit the charitable deduction to actual charities. December 20, 2006 | | web only Surging to Disaster Want to break the back of the U.S. military while failing to accomplish anything new in Iraq? Send in more troops. December 20, 2006 | | web only A Union Hearing A retooled approach to discussing organized labor would resonate with insecure white collar workers. December 19, 2006 | | web only The Replacements What happens when a senator dies or resigns? We need a better method for filling the seat. December 19, 2006 | | web only Business as Usual Top administration officials went to China for yet another round of big talk and no action regarding Chinese labor abuses and trade violations. December 18, 2006 | | web only Advice Not Taken A top former State Department expert explained to the Iraq Study Group's members why their preferred plan would most likely fail. They ignored his warning. December 18, 2006 | | web only Bare Necessities Marjane Satrapi's latest graphic novel is a simply told tale about the complexities of life, art, and Iranian politics. December 18, 2006 | | web only Excess Baggage The conservative attack on government has left a major mess for Democrats to clean up. December 15, 2006 | | web only Final Fantasy Fred Kagan's disastrous plan for "victory" in Iraq. December 15, 2006 | | web only Justice Deported Tuesday's immigration raids on meatpacking plants weren't about curbing identity theft, they were about union-busting. December 14, 2006 | | web only The GOP's Iraq Two-Step The front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination can't seem to get real about the war. December 14, 2006 | | web only Johnny Come Lately Could the formerly hawkish John Edwards be the anti-war candidate to beat in '08? December 14, 2006 | | web only If it Ain't Broke... Curbing regulations of American capital markets: a bad solution to a non-existent problem. December 13, 2006 | | web only Caging the Inflation Hawks The Fed was right not to raise interest rates yesterday -- and they ought to consider lowering them the next time around. December 13, 2006 | | web only Jim Baker's War Praise for the Iraq Study Group's "consensus-building" leader ignores his role in leading us into Iraq in the first place. December 12, 2006 | | web only Continental Divide Two new books explore fraught questions concerning the Muslim minority in Europe. December 12, 2006 | | web only Statement of Denial The Iraq Study Group got the facts right, it just couldn't stand to face them. December 12, 2006 | | web only Getting Frank Incoming congressional chairman Barney Frank hopes to transform the economic debate in America by offering a grand bargain for labor and business. December 11, 2006 | | web only The Insurgent Keith Ellison made news for being the first Muslim ever elected to Congress, but his hard-edged liberalism is just as noteworthy. December 8, 2006 | | web only No Holy Night As the right-wing punditocracy knows, banning Christmas is the linchpin of the entire liberal agenda. December 8, 2006 | | web only Southern Exposure For the first time in decades, Republicans rather than Democrats are the ones with a southern problem. December 8, 2006 | | web only Fine-Tuned Deception Say hello to the new stealth creationism. December 7, 2006 | | web only Border Patrol For decades, Israelis have regarded their own national border the way Victorians regarded sex. But that may be changing. December 7, 2006 | | web only No Middle Ground The Iraq Study Group calls its prescription "responsible transition;" there's nothing responsible about it. December 6, 2006 | | web only In Power, Powerless Why Democrats, and the public, are helpless to do anything regarding Iraq or the economy. December 6, 2006 | | web only Floor Plan for a Horror Show From the archives: A guided tour through the George W. Bush Presidential Library we wish we could visit. December 5, 2006 | | web only Locked Out Our system of mass incarceration affects more than you think. TAP talks to Bruce Western, author of Punishment and Inequality in America. December 5, 2006 | | web only Bridge to Nowhere Political consensus isn't going to solve America's Iraq problem. December 5, 2006 | | web only Another Quagmire American paralysis in the face of the declining dollar could spell disaster for the country. Behold the Republicans' economic Iraq. December 4, 2006 | | web only The Dream Palace of the Bushies Arabs certainly have no monopoly on delusional notions and rigid ideology. December 4, 2006 | | web only Hostile Negotiation Big Pharma's bogus case against Medicare bargaining for lower drug prices. December 1, 2006 | | web only Not for the Takings How was a libertarian land use initiative defeated in blood-red Idaho? December 1, 2006 | | web only |
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