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July 2006Report Retort A new study by Bush's own Treasury Department discredits supply-siders and speaks inconvenient truths about the tax cuts. July 28, 2006 | | web only Surviving Sudoku How the Japanese puzzle's invasion has rocked the world of American crossword writers -- and what they're doing to cope. July 28, 2006 | | web only General Hospital The fate of Bill Frist's family empire tells a larger story -- the troubled boom-and-bust history of for-profit hospitals in America. July 28, 2006 | | web only What Would Joe and Eileen Do? Senator Charles Schumer speaks with the Prospect about his vision for the Democratic Party. July 28, 2006 | | web only The Fifth Element A South American trade bloc shifts left as Venezuela becomes its fifth member state. July 27, 2006 | | web only Put Up or Shut Up Why Europe should deploy an international security force in southern Lebanon. July 27, 2006 | | web only Justice Bypassed All parental consent laws for abortion include a judicial bypass process. On the ground, in state after state, that process is dysfunctional. July 27, 2006 | | web only Fighting Right Right-wing activists deliberately provoke many of the fissures currently wracking mainline churches. How can they be fought? July 26, 2006 | | web only Ramallah Stirs The Israeli-Palestinian dispute remains the core issue in the region, and there are hints of a way forward amidst the chaos. July 25, 2006 | | web only Friendly Advice A foolish war is never a just one -- and Israel's war is a moral and strategic folly. July 25, 2006 | | web only Stumbling Into Armageddon Bush's Mid-East policies have produced a codependency of the most extreme elements on all sides. July 23, 2006 | | web only Veto This, George Boy! Congress doesn't have the votes to override the stem-cell veto, but the country may overrule in November. July 21, 2006 | | web only Courts Dismissed It's a myth that judicial interventions inevitably provoke a stronger public backlash than those made by legislatures. July 21, 2006 | | web only Anatomy of a Murder TAP talks to Chris Paine, director of the new documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, about the chief culprits in the act. July 21, 2006 | | web only I Love the '90s Why Democrats should pursue “progressive realism” at home. July 20, 2006 | | web only No Charge, No Exit Hamdan was rightly celebrated, but it is little help to the hundreds of Guantanamo prisoners held indefinitely without charge. July 20, 2006 | | web only The Guns of July Among the alarming similarities between the current crisis and that of 1914, the American absence is the least excusable. July 20, 2006 | | web only Power Ploy Why three Arab regimes are publicly aligning themselves against Hezbollah and Iran. July 20, 2006 | | web only Stagnation Celebration What looming demographic crisis? We should welcome the prospect of an aging, or even declining, population. July 19, 2006 | | web only A Poor Option for Stock Options Back-dating stock options is a problem, despite what one SEC commissioner may say. July 19, 2006 | | web only Judge of Progress Before the current regional crisis began, TAP talked to Iranian dissident and Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi about democracy, reform, and American folly. July 19, 2006 | | web only Holy War As the Middle East burns, GOP pols, neocon pundits, and a powerful Christian right leader all sing the same (crazy) tune. July 19, 2006 | | web only Stemmed Progress Science has moved past the president's five-year-old position on stem-cell research, but federal policy remains paralyzed. July 18, 2006 | | web only Triumph of the Will For hawks, as for the Green Lantern Corps, limits mean nothing and willpower is everything. But the Middle East is no comic book. July 18, 2006 | | web only The Rights Stuff Congress showed good judgment last week when it renewed the Voting Rights Act. July 17, 2006 | | web only A Crisis Foretold Israelis' dream of peace achieved unilaterally is dead -- and the way out of the current crisis will involve engagement with some unlikely people. July 17, 2006 | | web only Why We Fight When it comes to explaining American political polarization, inequality matters. TAP talks to Nolan McCarty, co-author of the new book Polarized America. July 17, 2006 | | web only The Rules of the Game An American mediator with Hezbollah interprets the signals from Tel Aviv and the Lebanese militia group. July 14, 2006 | | web only An End to Hedging How the challenge against Lieberman transforms the Iraq war as a political issue. July 14, 2006 | | web only Let's Play Monopoly The FCC goes mad for mergers while media bigwigs hobnob and hatch plans in Sun Valley. July 14, 2006 | | web only Habitual Blindness The last great age of globalization gave America some pecular characteristics and very bad habits. A century later, we're repeating our mistakes. July 13, 2006 | | web only Earth to Pundits There's nothing mysterious, and nothing outrageous, about the challenge against Joe Lieberman. July 13, 2006 | | web only Tax Cut Follies The budget deficit reminds us yet again why Bush's tax cuts were a terrible mistake. July 12, 2006 | | web only Doctrinal Errors TAP talks to journalist Ron Suskind, author of The One Percent Doctrine, about power, secrecy, and the Bush administration's radical approach to fighting terror. July 12, 2006 | | web only Steal This Column A plea to Ann Coulter. July 12, 2006 | | web only A Problem By Proxy India and Pakistan play out their conflict on Afghanistan's soil. July 11, 2006 | | web only Just Add Missile Defense The lunatic idée fixe of conservative security policy: a non-functioning shield against non-existent missiles. July 11, 2006 | | web only A Canterbury Tale Striking back at pro-gay Episcopalians, the Anglican Archbishop calls for a schism in his own Church. He also just may kill off the dream of a religious left in America for good. July 11, 2006 | | web only The F Word No, not framing. Freedom! TAP speaks with George Lakoff about freedom, populism, and the common good. Lakoff's most recent book, Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea, was released July 4. July 10, 2006 | | web only Drawing In, Lashing Out Israelis want to turn inward, but occupational hazards -- and a new crisis in the territories -- keep them from doing so. July 10, 2006 | | web only Iraq, Insoluble They don't call it a quagmire for nothing. July 10, 2006 | | web only Out of Bounds Racism has long plagued international soccer. Fans and activists are finally calling foul. July 7, 2006 | | web only Punishing the PRI In one turbulent Mexican state, the big story of Sunday's elections wasn't who won, but who lost. July 7, 2006 | | web only The World According to Grover Grover Norquist talks to the Prospect and friends about Iraq, gay marriage, Jack Abramoff, and more. July 6, 2006 | | web only Congress's Turn To demagogue Hamdan or not to demagogue Hamdan? That is the question. July 6, 2006 | | web only Jerry's Kids From the archives: Gerald Ford's true legacy? Giving us Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Stevens -- the alpha and omega of the Bush years. July 5, 2006 | | web only Minimum Politics If the Republicans were smart, they'd push to index the minimum wage to inflation. July 5, 2006 | | web only Everything's Relative Is Hillary Clinton "electable"? Sure. More electable than the likely alternatives? That's doubtful. July 5, 2006 | | web only |
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