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July 2008What Next for Affordable Housing? The sub-prime mortgage crisis offers a silver lining -- the potential for the less-well-known problem of affordable housing to get some well-deserved attention and funding. July 30, 2008 | | web only False Accusation Blaming public housing policy for an increase in crime misses the point -- the problem is a lack of true support for equitable housing and economic policy. July 30, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 44) Evangelicals debate whether Obama has "a spirit of the Antichrist" and conservatives claim Rick Warren will give Obama space to defend his "gospel of condoms." July 30, 2008 | | web only Playing His Own Game For years, Republicans have out-played Democrats, particularly on media strategy. This year, with Barack Obama, Democrats have the upper hand. July 29, 2008 | | web only How Important Was the Surge? Did the surge create the dramatic drop in Iraqi violence? TAP Online asked a dozen-or-so Iraq experts, from all sides of the political spectrum. July 28, 2008 | | web only 36 Hours In Israel (With Barack Obama) When John McCain visited Israel last March hardly anyone noticed. When Barack Obama did the same this week he caused a sensation. July 25, 2008 | | web only Why McCain Should Embrace Withdrawal The United States must listen to the Iraqi government's demands or risk endangering the gains that have been made during the past 18 months. July 24, 2008 | | web only The Meltdown Lowdown (No. 14) McCain's offshore drilling plan is designed to support his campaign, not lower gas prices, and bailing out Fannie and Freddie could cost $100 billion. July 24, 2008 | | web only What's Next For Campaign Finance? TAP talks with campaign-finance guru Thomas Mann, a key advocate for McCain-Feingold who now says reform should focus more on public funding of candidates and less on contribution limits. July 24, 2008 | | web only Will Congress Rebuff the Supreme Court's Anti-Consumer Activism? The Court's campaign against individual court enforcement of consumer, employee, retiree, and other statutory protections has been a secret hiding in plain sight for the last four decades. Congress is finally taking notice. July 23, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 43) McCain avoids talking about birth control, Dobson may back McCain, and why does Rick Warren get to host the "Compassion Forum"? July 23, 2008 | | web only Shorts and Fannies: A Brief History Scratching your head trying to understand just what short-selling is and why it threatens banks; or what exactly Fannie Mae is, and how it might be dragging down a housing sector? Founding Editor Robert Kuttner explains. July 22, 2008 | | web only Maliki's Walk Forward Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's endorsement of Barack Obama's plan for U.S. troop withdrawal shows us the real shape of the debate to come. July 21, 2008 | | web only The Aisle of Least Resistance What am I to make of my commitment to not participate in a sexist, historically racist institution when my own gay friends are rushing to the altar? July 21, 2008 | | web only The Misshapen Mind Two new books argue that the human brain's haphazard evolution has left us at the prey of irrational behaviors and self-defeating instincts. July 18, 2008 | | web only The Meltdown Lowdown (No. 13) Inflation surges, Fannie and Freddie get away with reckless incompetence, and Obama proposes a subsidy for tax accountants. July 17, 2008 | | web only What's Next for J Street? TAP talks with Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder of the new pro-Israel group J Street, about his organization's congressional endorsements and why he doesn't mind being attacked from the right. July 17, 2008 | | web only Five Questions Israel Should Ask Before Bombing Iran After Iran's missile tests last week, the question of whether Israel will strike Iran preemptively is on everyone's mind. Here are five questions Israel should ponder before striking. July 17, 2008 | | web only Scoring The New Yorker Cover Debate Sunday night the new issue of The New Yorker hit newsstands. By Monday morning, everyone had an opinion. Here's a rundown of the cover's defenders and attackers. July 16, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 42) Duping conservative evangelicals is easier than using a computer, Huckabee on TV, and Hagee angers his flock by moving to the center. July 16, 2008 | | web only Looking at The Dark Side In her new book, New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer chronicles the Bush administration's embrace of torture and secrecy in the War on Terror. July 15, 2008 | | web only It's the Economists, Stupid Phil Gramm's tone-deaf remark about a "mental recession" shows that in picking advisers, on the economy or otherwise, John McCain doesn't have a clue. July 15, 2008 | | web only Is the U.N. Making Things Worse in Darfur? Foreign aid and a U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission may be prolonging the conflict in Darfur by providing a safe-haven where rebels can safely leave their families and recruit new soldiers -- some of them children. July 14, 2008 | | web only The Men Behind Generation Kill TAP talks with David Simon, executive producer of Generation Kill, the new HBO series about the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and Evan Wright, author of the book on which it is based. July 11, 2008 | | web only The Meltdown Lowdown (No. 13) McCain advocates balancing the budget with magic, Greenspan is either a liar or a fool, and government lenders sag under the weight of bad mortgages. July 10, 2008 | | web only Focusing on The Family Journalist Jeff Sharlet went undercover to infiltrate the secretive Washington, D.C., religious organization, The Family. Sarah Posner asks him what they want, and how they go about getting it. July 10, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 41) Obama shifts emphasis on reproductive rights, "abortion reduction" has some limitations, and an update on Sen. Grassley's investigation of televangelists. July 9, 2008 | | web only How the Left Can Avoid a New Education War A battle is brewing between portions of the civil-rights community and teacher unions over the future of liberal education policy. July 9, 2008 | | web only Obama Is Not a God Liberals need to understand that Obama can never live up to his golden image -- but they should still hold him accountable for the campaign promises he's made. July 9, 2008 | | web only The McCain Rules The press has been reasonably kind to Barack Obama. But this is nothing compared with its eagerness to adopt any argument even mentioned by the McCain campaign. July 8, 2008 | | web only Fixing the System Obama Broke We need a fundamentally different way of allocating public funds to political candidates. July 3, 2008 | | web only The Meltdown Lowdown (No. 12) The Times confuses the stock market and the economy and worries about a shortage of Europeans while McCain only claims to want to hold economists accountable. July 3, 2008 | | web only Barack's Pilgrimage The trip that future president Obama needs to take to Israel is not the one that candidate Obama can risk. July 3, 2008 | | web only A Limited Health-Care Success in Massachussetts The Massachusetts health reform plan says much about the pitfalls and promises of reform. July 2, 2008 | | web only The FundamentaList (No. 40) Obama is friendlier with evangelicals than McCain, Huckabee supporters push him as Vice President, and Huckabee says immorality is the cause of big government. July 2, 2008 | | web only The Doctors' Revolt Doctors, the traditional advocates for the medical status quo, are increasingly in favor of major reforms to the U.S. health-care system. July 1, 2008 | | web only McCain: Noun, Verb, Terrorism For all John McCain's supposed experience, he has the same absurdly simplistic and factually ignorant understanding of the problem as President Bush. July 1, 2008 | | web only |
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