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March 2008Obama v. Krugman Obama's Cooper Union speech presages an FDR-like approach to our faltering economy. Why can't Paul Krugman see that? March 28, 2008 | | web only Is AIDS Research Back to Square One? As recently as last summer it seemed we were on the cusp of an AIDS vaccine, but the failure of the most recent trials has some calling for a return to "fundamental questions" of how to fight AIDS. March 28, 2008 | | web only McCain on the Red Phone Was McCain's recent conflation of al-Qaeda and Iran a neoconservative delusion or a habit of mind that lumps together all of America's enemies? Either way, it's frightening. March 27, 2008 | | web only When Barack Voted No There is a new attack on Obama's (very good) reproductive choice record. But this time it's coming from the right. March 27, 2008 | | web only The Strange Case of Robert Malley The recent hounding of Barack Obama for the supposed anti-Israel stance of his informal adviser Robert Malley is an instructive point in the controversies surrounding who gets to tell the narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. March 27, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 27) The inflammatory pastor double-standard, the Republican "other-izing" strategy, and this year's anti-gay marriage movement. March 26, 2008 | | web only Moral Hazard The Bush administration rejected the idea that homeowners caught in the sub-prime loan mess deserved government bailout -- but it endorsed the Fed's bailout of Wall Street. Trouble is, it's the latter group that should have known better. March 26, 2008 | | web only Conservatives' Hate-Based Campaign Against Obama The right-wing smear campaign against Barack Obama has already begun. Conservatives intend, as they have so many times before, to appeal to Americans' ugliest prejudices and most craven fears. March 25, 2008 | | web only A Real Dialogue on Race Obama's speech rose above the rush to label anyone and everyone a racist, and instilled hope for a more productive national conversation about race, gender, and class. March 24, 2008 | | web only Canada Imports "School Choice" Ideology Toronto's current debate over whether to create Afrocentric public schools looks suspiciously like arguments over private school vouchers in the United States, with the same charged rhetoric and misleading data. March 21, 2008 | | web only Taping Over Old Ideas of Community Michel Gondry's Be Kind, Rewind celebrates ordinary people and the extraordinary power of creativity and community. March 21, 2008 | | web only A New New Deal Reshaping the U.S. economy so that it actually benefits Americans won't be easy. But it must be done. March 21, 2008 | | web only Florida Dems Weigh in on the Delegate Debacle The Florida Democratic Party announced this week that it is rejecting a re-vote. Now the DNC will have to clean up the delegate mess itself. March 21, 2008 | | web only Does Obama Really Have a Race Problem? There is no doubt that working-class whites harbor resentments against blacks. But wealthy whites are more likely than working-class whites to use the race card in the voting booth. March 20, 2008 | | web only Southwest Passage Is John McCain, with his home state advantage and record of leadership on immigration, a threat to the Democrats' plan to capture the Southwest? March 20, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 26) Rod Parsley's anti-Muslim views, John Hagee's anti-Catholic views, and a new book defines "ChristianityLite." March 19, 2008 | | web only Five Years Later According to interviews with detained members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the most powerful recruitment tool for Islamic extremists is ... the war itself. March 19, 2008 | | web only Political Theatre of the Absurd Groups like Code Pink have turned political protest on the left into a joke. Effective political movements have to both engage their participants and ensure that their actions are meaningful. March 18, 2008 | | web only What Is McCain's Economic Agenda? The man who famously admitted that economics is not his strong suit wants to fundamentally alter the government's role in the economy by deeply cutting non-defense spending, from discretionary programs to entitlements. March 17, 2008 | | web only A Midwest Progressive Hero Howard Metzenbaum, who died Wednesday at age 90, was a relentless, in-your-face senator who stood up for workers' rights and paved the way for the candidates who came after him. March 14, 2008 | | web only Burden of Proof Increasingly, the rabbis in the Israeli state bureaucracy demand proof that people registering to marry are really Jewish. The proof they seek is unavailable to most American-born Jews. March 13, 2008 | | web only What $5,500 an Hour Buys The amount Eliot Spitzer paid for a prostitute buys a lot more than secrecy, and a lot more than sex. It buys a confirmation of status and power, though it remains -- or is supposed to remain -- inconspicuous. March 13, 2008 | | web only John Hagee's Controversial Gospel An excerpt from Sarah Posner's new book, God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters. March 12, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 25) A possible explanation for the Churchill images in McCain's most recent ad, Craig Unger on the relationship between neocons and fundamentalists, and has the evangelical center arrived? March 12, 2008 | | web only More Bellicose Than Bush? Given how often we are told that McCain has "credibility" and "experience" on matters of foreign policy and national security, it's worth asking what effect all that alleged experience has had on him. March 11, 2008 | | web only The Democrats' Struggle to Maintain Unity As the Democrats gear up for the Pennsylvania primary, they could find themselves on shaky ground as the party's old personality disorders begin to resurface. March 11, 2008 | | web only The American Recession and the World's Emerging Economies The world's developing nations are no longer nearly as dependent as they used to be on consumers in the United States and other rich nations to keep them going by buying their exports. March 11, 2008 | | web only WireTAP: A Dialogue about The Wire (Episode 10) Prospect writers discuss the final episode of the critically acclaimed HBO series. March 10, 2008 | | web only Justice Denied for Battered Immigrant Women The Department of Homeland Security is considering a policy change that would harm immigrant women who are abused by husbands who are U.S. citizens. March 10, 2008 | | web only The Return of Newtonian Governance Run to the bookstore! Newt Gingrich has a new book whose central theme is, unsurprisingly, that "bureaucracy" predisposes government to fail, in contrast to an inherently more effective and efficient private sector. March 7, 2008 | | web only WireTAP: A Dialogue About The Wire (Episodes 7-9) Prospect writers discuss the fifth season of the critically acclaimed HBO series. March 7, 2008 | | web only Remembering Buckley for the Right Reasons William F. Buckley's contradictions -- a feisty rebelliousness alongside classic, conservative principles like civility and hierarchy -- are what made his conservatism so profoundly American and so profoundly effective. March 6, 2008 | | web only Justice Scalia's Two-Front War Despite lip service to "judicial restraint" Scalia has been waging a war against consumer product regulation as well as protections for workers, at both the state and federal level. March 6, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 24) Why Russert won't ask McCain to denounce Hagee, what's next for Huckabee, Tony Perkins' "New" Evangelical Agenda, and the Catholic Question. March 5, 2008 | | web only How Far Will Democrats Go? Having learned that going negative works, the Clinton campaign will certainly continue. Its fervent hope is that Obama will refuse to join that particular fight. March 5, 2008 | | web only Primaries Without End, Amen This is the "show me the demographics and I'll tell you the winner" Democratic presidential contest. Why bother to hold elections? March 5, 2008 | | web only Where Both Democrats Went Wrong in Ohio Clinton's traditional support went up against Obama's insurgent organizing. But neither campaign hit the populist notes that would have really resonated with Ohio Democrats. March 4, 2008 | | web only Obama's Usable Past Reading Obama as cut loose from history is incorrect. Obama's promise is not to remove us from history but rather to find a "usable past" in American ideals of equality, justice, and fraternity. March 4, 2008 | | web only The Contours of the Campaign to Come Obama may not have knocked Hillary Clinton out of the race yet, but his success is giving us a taste of what Republicans have in store for the general election. March 4, 2008 | | web only |
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