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July 2007Out of the Fringe and Into the Spotlight Independent artists are using festivals like Capital Fringe to push political theater -- and their pet issues -- into the mainstream. July 30, 2007 | | web only Offering Noncitizens a Local Identity With immigration reform stalled at the national level, cities are issuing municipal ID cards to all residents -- even those who aren't U.S. citizens. July 30, 2007 | | web only Summertime, and Living in DC Is Easy An ode to the beauty and contradictions of our nation's capital in the dog days of August. (Seriously.) July 27, 2007 | | web only Did Gonzales Lie to the Senate? New testimony from FBI Director Robert Mueller suggests that the attorney general did not tell Congress the truth about warrantless wiretapping. July 27, 2007 | | web only GOP Moms: Between a Rock and the Hard Right A Republican Congresswoman describes her life as a working mother to a room full of young conservative women. Mixed messages abound. July 27, 2007 | | web only Explosive Reactions Two new books show that reckoning with suicide bombing means not just taking account of the tactic itself, but also the reactions it purposefully provokes. July 27, 2007 | | web only Outsourcing in the Dark A new Congressional inquiry into outsourcing may shed some light on how well the federal government monitors the performance of its contractors. July 27, 2007 | | web only Spring Training for Universal Health Care The Bush administration is equating children's health care with public health care. For Democrats, this is an excellent warm-up for a future fight over securing health care for all. July 26, 2007 | | web only Rethinking American Entrepreneurship We've become a nation of financial entrepreneurs, but we were better off when our most talented young people focused on competition in the real economy. July 26, 2007 | | web only The Divider Despite his promises to do the opposite, under Chief Justice John Roberts the Supreme Court has become more divided than at any point in recent history. But is that such a bad thing? July 26, 2007 | | web only Northern Ireland's Arch Irrelevance Why comparisons of the Iraq war to the conflict in Northern Ireland reflect only false hope, not reality. July 25, 2007 | | web only Compensating the Wrongly Convicted With an increasing number of exonerated inmates being released, states vary widely on the reparations they make to innocent people they have imprisoned. July 25, 2007 | | web only Seventeen Candidates in Search of a Story Only a few of the '08 frontrunners have grasped the importance of the campaign narrative and built a successful story around their candidacies. July 25, 2007 | | web only Dicking Around In his fawning new book about Dick Cheney, Stephen Hayes leans heavily on superficial details and explanations, and demonstrates a surprising lack of curiosity about what drives the man he's devoted so much effort to covering. July 25, 2007 | | web only Harry Potter and the Complicated Identity Politics J.K. Rowling subtly critiques, yet ultimately hews to, a fantasy script dependent on stereotypes culled from real-life racism. July 24, 2007 | | web only Past Matters How a new book about post-war Asia should inform our thinking about calling on Japan to make reparations to "comfort women." July 24, 2007 | | web only Time for a More Radical Immigrant-Rights Movement Congress's failure to pass immigration reform legislation is being used to crack down on undocumented immigrants in several states. July 24, 2007 | | web only Lynndie England in Love Long before Abu Ghraib, Pfc. Lynndie England posed for photographs for her then-boyfriend Charles Graner and violated military rules. An excerpt from Monstering. July 24, 2007 | | web only The Improbable Missionary TAP talks to Josh Rushing, former U.S. Military spokesman -- now Al Jazeera military analyst -- about bridging Arab and Western cultures and who really skews the news out of Iraq. July 23, 2007 | | web only The Freedom to I-Bank Daniel Brook's new book explores who is to blame for the rise of the young, liberal "sell-out" and why the phenomenon hurts America July 23, 2007 | | web only Crafting a Better Political Apology Why politicians apologize badly, and how they could improve. (Are you paying attention, David Vitter?) July 23, 2007 | | web only The Myth of Bryan Caplan's Seriousness Libertarians gather to hear the case against letting the ignorant, irrational masses decide the direction of society. July 20, 2007 | | web only All They Are Saying Is Give Petraeus a Chance Bush may have won a short-term victory, but he shouldn't get too comfortable. Republicans have their own timetable for cutting-and-running from the White House. July 20, 2007 | | web only What's a Working Mother Worth? The majority U.S. families depend on mothers' earnings to get by. So why do Americans remain deeply divided about the value of maternal employment? July 20, 2007 | | web only Richardson's Handshake Gamble Bill Richardson is hoping the near-celebrity status of the three Democratic frontrunners will keep them from exuding the same folksy charm and handshakes he's using to connect with New Hampshire voters. July 20, 2007 | | web only Fear and Loathing in Middle America A new book in the Gonzo journalism vein tries to explain to coastal elites what they've never understood about the working-class small towns in the middle of the country. July 20, 2007 | | web only What FDR and Elizabeth Edwards Have in Common Roosevelt never used his wheelchair as a political gimmick, only as an inspiration to others. The same goes for Edwards and her breast cancer. July 19, 2007 | | web only Why We Don't Vacation Like the French How come Americans don't take a month off every summer, even though we'd like to? Blame it on individualism. July 19, 2007 | | web only The GOP's Spineless Sages When it comes to getting us out of Iraq, top Republican Senators are all talk and no action. July 19, 2007 | | web only The Case for Pre-K A new book explains why other progressive causes should take some cues from the preschool movement. July 18, 2007 | | web only Suppressing the Truths of War A new documentary about war correspondents shows how hard it is for them to get their stories on air and in print. July 18, 2007 | | web only The Power of the Campaign Narrative All successful candidates have had a coherent, appealing story, while the losers tell bad stories -- or more often, no story at all. Plus, a gallery of narrative campaign ads. July 18, 2007 | | web only Goin' Medieval -- A Morass With his restatement that Catholicism is the "one true church," Pope Benedict deals a blow to progressive Catholics and their ecumenical friends. July 17, 2007 | | web only Environmentalism for Billionaires How businesses are looking to cash in on global warming with green-washed plans that aren't as eco-friendly as they seem. July 17, 2007 | | web only Will Conservatives Leave Education Reform Behind? Conservatives consider whether to throw their support behind reforming No Child Left Behind, or let the law continue to hobble along as an unfunded mandate. July 17, 2007 | | web only What Edwards Doesn't Get About Poverty John Edwards's failure to appeal to low-income voters proves the poor want more than just new programs. July 17, 2007 | | web only The Kurdish Question Can Turkey learn to live with an increasingly powerful Iraqi Kurdistan across the border? July 16, 2007 | | web only The Politics of Stillbirth A new movement seeks to award special certificates to fetuses that are stillborn, but pro-choice advocates worry that this is yet another step toward fetal personhood that could endanger abortion rights. July 16, 2007 | | web only Concrete Policies Based on Concrete Values The case for building our public policy on our professed beliefs. A response to Ezra Klein's "Overvaluing American Values." July 16, 2007 | | web only Unmaking the McCain Myth It is now clear that for John McCain, victory simply means not quitting -- in Iraq and on the campaign trail. He's a prisoner of this war, too. July 13, 2007 | | web only Dr. Yes-Man Dr. James Holsinger doesn't inspire confidence that, if confirmed as surgeon general, he would stand up to Bush's ideological pressure. July 13, 2007 | | web only Beyond the Gaza Coup Is imprisoned Young Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti the last best hope for Palestinian nationalism? July 13, 2007 | | web only On War and Politics A new book discusses the disastrous effects of a disjuncture between a nation's military means and its political ends. July 13, 2007 | | web only The MSM's Michael Moore Inferiority Complex In a world full of political provocateurs and public hotheads, why is it that only Michael Moore triggers the media's all-too-absent obsession with factual accuracy? Because he scares them. July 12, 2007 | | web only Gangs of Port-au-Prince A new film, Ghosts of Cite Soleil, documents the lives (and deaths) of Haitian gang members in the wake of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's ouster. July 11, 2007 | | web only GOP Candidates Cross the Line in the Culture War Despite their carefully cultivated images, Romney and Thompson have recently found themselves on the wrong side of conservatives' view of sex. July 11, 2007 | | web only Organizing the L.A. Times Pressroom How the press workers at the Los Angeles Times bucked the paper's legacy and organized at the notoriously anti-union employer. July 11, 2007 | | web only How Bush's AIDS Program is Failing Africans The president's much-lauded AIDS initiative has succeeded in saving lives through treatment. But its abstinence- focused prevention programs have put many more lives in jeopardy. July 10, 2007 | | web only Real 9/11 Heroes Speak Out Against Rudy New York City firefighters are out to set the record straight on Rudy Giuliani's 9/11 legacy. July 10, 2007 | | web only A Crack in the System For the fourth time in 20 years the U.S. Sentencing Commission has asked lawmakers to reform mandatory cocaine sentencing policy. Might this be the year Congress listens? July 9, 2007 | | web only The Long-Term Value Moment Corporate America is realizing that there is more to life than quarterly earnings reports. Now is the time for progressives to help businesses figure out what taking the long view might actually mean. July 9, 2007 | | web only Guns Versus Butter in the Palestinian Authority For Fatah and its allies to succeed in building a viable alternative to Hamas, they must provide food for the tables and a credible security command. July 9, 2007 | | web only Iraq: Won and Done? Some Democrats think the best way to call for our exit from Iraq without appearing chicken or defeatist is to simply declare victory. July 6, 2007 | | web only Global Safeguards for a Global Economy The FDA's failure to keep us safe from tainted goods produced abroad is a reminder that it's time to better regulate the global economy. July 6, 2007 | | web only Hedges, Private Equity, and the Little Guy What happens to corporate and government pension plans when the bottom falls out on hedge funds? July 6, 2007 | | web only Manufacturing Art A new film about an artist who documents Chinese factories explores the toxic interdependence between developed and developing nations. July 6, 2007 | | web only Iraqi Oil: A Benchmark or a Giveaway? Why Iraqi oil workers oppose the much- vaunted oil law. PLUS: TAP talks to Iraqi union leaders, and an accompanying photo essay. July 6, 2007 | | web only Iraqi Union Leaders Call for an End to the Occupation TAP talks to Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Workers Union of Iraq. July 6, 2007 | | web only The Invincible President Bush, the supposed "uniter," consolidated his power by fostering division. Especially now, as a lame duck president who polls in the 20s, he'll never need to worry about compromise. July 5, 2007 | | web only McCain's Iowa Problem John McCain's campaign says it's focusing on Iowa. But McCain and the state's G.O.P. caucus-goers may just be a bad fit. July 4, 2007 | | web only The Man-Crush Primary Why are so many pundits enamored of the Republican candidates' manliness -- and so eager to equate "presidential" with "masculine"? July 4, 2007 | | web only Off the Hook -- Again The Libby commutation is another in a series of outrageous actions by the Bush administration. "Chronic outrage fatigue" has set in. July 3, 2007 | | web only Speechless at Work Most Americans believe it's illegal for an employer to fire them for expressing their political views. Unfortunately, most Americans are wrong. TAP talks to the author of a new book about employee freedom of expression. July 3, 2007 | | web only Correcting the Guards Why the shaky relationship between organized labor and correctional officers is doubly harmful to the American left. July 2, 2007 | | web only |
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