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June 2009The Cost of Hashtag Revolution With the Iranian election, we've seen a privately owned technology becoming a vital part of the infrastructure supporting political activity. That's a problem. June 29, 2009 | | web only A Governor Undone by Love Forget the broader implications for the GOP -- Mark Sanford's public breakdown was a human drama all its own. June 26, 2009 | | web only The Real Stonewall Legacy Waiting our turn isn't working. Asking nicely isn't working. What will work is what worked that fateful night at Stonewall. June 26, 2009 | | web only Where Blacks Lead the Fight for Gay Rights Black leadership is changing the fight for gay rights in D.C. June 26, 2009 | | web only Concern Trolling Iran The conservative take on Iran has never been genuinely interested in what Iranians think or in the well-being of the Iranian people. June 25, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 86) This week in religion and politics: In her last regular column, Sarah Posner says so long to The FundamentaList. June 24, 2009 | | web only Burqa Politics in France What happens when feminism and sexual liberation become tools for nationalism? June 24, 2009 | | web only Four Ways States Could Squander the Stimulus Implementation of Obama's stimulus bill is largely in the hands of the state governments. Here are four ways they might derail it. June 23, 2009 | | web only An Uncertain Fate for Voting Rights The Supreme Court might not have struck down the act yesterday, but it didn't preserve the act, either. June 23, 2009 | | web only Health Care Reform Villains It's time for Obama to start naming the bad guys in the battle over health care reform. June 23, 2009 | | web only The Prospect's Coverage of Iran's Unrest Prospect writers on the Iranian election's impact on the region, America's reaction to allegations of voter fraud, and the Neda video. June 23, 2009 | | web only The Other Sons of Iraq How the lessons al-Qaeda learned in Iraq are informing the next generation of fighters. June 22, 2009 | | web only The Never-Ending Labor Wars An inter-union fight is exhausting the time and resources of important labor leaders. Can UNITE HERE and SEIU reconcile before their conflict gets even more bitter? June 22, 2009 | | web only Don't Call It a 'He-cession' Why are we pitting men against women? The economic crisis affects everyone -- and we can only fix it together. June 22, 2009 | | web only Who Regulates the Regulators? Obama's far-reaching proposal for financial regulations is a mixed bag -- can Congress improve the project? June 19, 2009 | | web only Nothing Stays in Vegas It's a safe bet that Sen. John Ensign will survive his affair scandal. The Republican Party's odds are not so good. June 19, 2009 | | web only Did Obama's Cairo Speech Change Everything? Whether Obama has had a small influence or a large one, the Middle East has already changed significantly. June 18, 2009 | | web only Conservatives' Cold War Approach to Iran Republicans are once again deploying a cracked history of the Reagan era to cast international politics as a zero-sum game. June 18, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 85) This week in religion and politics: The Army secretary nominee's record on church-state separation comes under scrutiny, and immigration reform may leave out LGBT people. June 17, 2009 | | web only Our Iran Strategy The Obama administration has approached the Iranian elections delicately thus far. But if Ahmadinejad is named the official winner, where does that leave us? June 16, 2009 | | web only The Left and the Living Dead In the event of a zombie apocalypse, will progressive ideals win out? June 16, 2009 | | web only Netanyahu's Illusory Concession on Palestine The Israeli prime minister endorsed the idea of a Palestinian state, while rejecting it in the particular. June 15, 2009 | | web only Is Iran's Election America's Problem? The theft of Iran's presidential election raises more foreign-policy implications than any clean result could have. June 15, 2009 | | web only Who's Afraid of Virginia Primaries? Relax, political junkies: Virginia's gubernatorial primary doesn't quite mean what you think it does. June 12, 2009 | | web only Meet D.C.'s Anti-Gay Marriage Crusaders An alliance between local and national activists is a test of the effectiveness of Republicans' reliance on culture-war wedge issues. June 12, 2009 | | web only The Sound of Settling Right-wing hawks and Israeli officials are savaging Obama for his condemnation of settlement expansion. But is there any good reason for the president to back down from his stance? June 11, 2009 | | web only Five Questions We Should Ask About Financial Oversight Strengthening regulation is only the beginning. June 10, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 84) This week in religion and politics: An HHS appointment raises questions about the purpose of faith-based offices, and religious leaders mourn the assassination of George Tiller. June 10, 2009 | | web only Why is the Treasury Excluding the Gulf Coast from Stimulus Benefits? Low-income housing construction is stalled due to the economic collapse -- and a recent ruling by Tim Geithner is preventing federal funds from reaching the victims of Katrina. June 10, 2009 | | web only The Numbers Game We ought to be in a golden age of data. So why are so many of the statistics we hear just fuzzy math? June 9, 2009 | | web only The Future of Philanthropy New movements reacting against the "nonprofit-industrial complex" are pushing the funding world to give grants with fewer strings attached -- and to give directly to grass-roots groups. June 8, 2009 | | web only The Devil Is in the Health Care Reform Details If Obama is not careful, he could end up with reform that is worse than the current system. June 5, 2009 | | web only Can a Speech Change the World? In his Cairo address, Barack Obama sought to transform the way the United States engages with the Muslim world. June 5, 2009 | | web only The Quiet Bias The death of a black police officer at the hands of his white colleague should be a wake-up call for us to explore the role of unconscious racial bias in the police force. June 4, 2009 | | web only House Hunting in the West Bank Our Jerusalem correspondent finds that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's argument for allowing continued construction in settlements contains layers of deception. June 4, 2009 | | web only Why Geithner Went to China It wasn't just to reassure China that the administration has economic recovery on track. June 3, 2009 | | web only The GM "Precedent" The real challenge before the administration is to promote policies that foster whole new industries, not that save individual firms. June 3, 2009 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 83) This week in religion and politics: Should the Senate Judiciary Committee consider Sonia Sotomayor's stance on the separation of church and state or her lack of a record on abortion? June 3, 2009 | | web only Detention Retention President Obama has tried to split the difference between comprehensive immigration-reform advocates and law-and-order types. But for immigrants in detention, not much has changed since the Bush era. June 2, 2009 | | web only Judicial Abstraction Republicans talk so much about "judicial activism" because it's a dog whistle to the base. Too bad that base is increasingly small and irrelevant. June 2, 2009 | | web only The Compassion of Dr. Tiller George Tiller is frequently described as "controversial." But in the tight-knit world of abortion providers and among the women under his care, he was often called a saint. June 2, 2009 | | web only Why Clinic Violence is Obama's Problem Dr. George Tiller's murder should push the federal government to get serious about fighting harassment of abortion providers. June 1, 2009 | | web only |
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