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March 2009The 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 His Uniform, My Responsibility My son's induction into the Israeli army makes politics even more personal than before. March 12, 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 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 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 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 Obama's Middle East Chess Game Obama's early Middle East strategy is about generating favorable options through diplomacy. March 10, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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