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December 2008I 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Palestinian Presidential Follies Obama can't wait until the inauguration to respond to the Palestinian political crisis. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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