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August 2007Why Federalism Fails Mitt Romney and many others want to preempt meaningful health care reform with federalist, 50-state solutions. Don't let them. August 30, 2007 | | web only Christian Legal Group Represents Missouri in Abortion Case Gov. Matt Blunt's office contracted with a Christian organization to defend the state in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood over newly enacted regulations targeting abortion clinics. August 30, 2007 | | web only Early Caucus Date Could Hurt the Democrats in Iowa Holding the Iowa caucuses in early January will wreak havoc on Iowa's student vote -- and any campaign relying on it. August 30, 2007 | | web only Who's the Real Sectarian? Most agree that mending Iraq's fundamental divisions was beyond Nouri al-Maliki's reach from the start. It's Bush, not Maliki, who has been a sectarian by choice. August 30, 2007 | | web only What's Behind the Sub-Prime Disaster The current high-risk mortgage mess is not so much a new crisis as the result of decades of government deregulation of the financial industry. August 29, 2007 | | web only A Guide to Media Manipulation, Republican Style In recent years the GOP has turned the technique of making hay from their opponents' words into a reliable formula for success -- with a few distortions and a little help from the media, of course. August 29, 2007 | | web only The Real Gonzales Problem Gonzales' worst fault -- the inability to separate politics from law -- is one that may well plague the administration beyond his resignation. August 29, 2007 | | web only Extreme Makeover, Human Edition At the heart of the Michael Vick scandal is the question of whether he can remake himself from a disgraced sports superstar to a man who made a serious mistake, but faced the truth and redeemed himself. August 28, 2007 | | web only Stop the Hedge Fund Casinos We'll all suffer if the Fed doesn't bail out hedge fund speculators, but that doesn't mean their irresponsibility should be excused or forgotten. August 28, 2007 | | web only Defending the Constitution After Gonzales Alberto Gonzales was deeply involved in the scandals that may yield contempt of Congress citations for members of the executive branch. But will Congress step up and issue those citations? August 28, 2007 | | web only Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism In his new new book, the ACLU's Anthony Romero argues that the Bush administration's post-9/11 dismantling of our civil liberties has implications far beyond the "War on Terror." August 28, 2007 | | web only Bush Invokes Vietnam, Without Remorse This week Bush finally started talking about the connection between Iraq and Vietnam -- but he's missing the true lessons. August 24, 2007 | | web only A New Group with an Old Message on the War A new organization set up to advocate for our continued involvement in Iraq doubles down on a failed PR strategy in the hopes of regaining the support of moderate Republican voters -- and smoothing the path for a pro-war presidential candidate. August 24, 2007 | | web only Will Gay Rights Be a Wedge Issue in '08? Conservatives are set to introduce another wave of anti-gay ballot initiatives, and the battle could cost progressives time and money in an election year. August 24, 2007 | | web only What Else Does Mueller Know? The domestic snooping story doesn't end with the White House's bullying of a sick John Ashcroft. The FBI chief must still answer grave questions about the administration's suspected abuse of national security letters. August 24, 2007 | | web only Keeping Markets Honest A basic free market principle is that when consumers cannot differentiate between risky products and good products, they'll withdraw from the market. That's what sub-prime mortgage investors are doing now. August 24, 2007 | | web only Government Snooping in a Digital Age A newly updated book on telecom surveillance shows how the president's expanded intelligence-gathering powers go way beyond tapping phone lines -- and why we should all be very, very concerned. August 23, 2007 | | web only A Dickens of a President The Bush administration's most recent rule change limits the ability of states to offer health coverage to uninsured children. August 23, 2007 | | web only Big Oil's Particular Profits How oil companies are taking advantage of basic thermal science to squeeze billions of dollars a year out of consumers' pockets. August 22, 2007 | | web only The Utter Uselessness of the Petraeus Report If you think the White House-penned report on Iraq will be anything other than a validation of "the surge" and the Bush administration's larger strategy, you haven't been paying attention. August 22, 2007 | | web only Nipping at McConnell's Heels At Kentucky's annual summer political picnic, there were signs that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell should be seriously worried about his '08 re-election bid. August 21, 2007 | | web only The Bush Administration's Latest Iraq Dodge Expect to start hearing lots of talk about "bottom-up reconciliation" -- yet another disingenuous portrayal of political progress in Iraq. August 21, 2007 | | web only The Sedate Debate A sleepy early morning debate in the Hawkeye State masks the on-the-ground action in the Democratic presidential race. August 20, 2007 | | web only Practitioners of State TAP talks to Dennis Ross, a former Clinton administration envoy to the Middle East, about neo-cons, Teddy Roosevelt and the intricacies of statecraft. August 20, 2007 | | web only Ron Paul's Abortion Rhetoric Does Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's strong language about abolishing a woman's right to choose put him at odds with the Libertarian party? August 20, 2007 | | web only Bypassing Young Women's Abortion Rights In her new book, Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors, Helena Silverstein looks at the thicket of parental notification laws faced by young women seeking an abortion. August 17, 2007 | | web only GOP Revolution: It's a Wrap The collapse of Bushism is all the more remarkable for the veneer of invincibility in which it once cloaked itself, and the fear and timidity it once inspired in Democrats. August 17, 2007 | | web only Is Justice Possible After Torture? The U.S. decision five years ago to torture detainees has infected a generation of terrorism cases where it might have once been possible to do justice -- but may not be anymore. August 17, 2007 | | web only The Christian Right's New Man No one is happier with the results of the Iowa Straw Poll than charismatic evangelical Christians, who recently declared former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee "one of our own." August 16, 2007 | | web only Rove's Blind Spot Despite his reputation as a political genius, Karl Rove made some fundamental miscalculations. And his cluelessness will live on in the White House. August 16, 2007 | | web only TAP Talks to Bill Richardson The New Mexico Gov. and Democratic presidential hopeful discusses balanced budgets, universal health care, and what it means to be "pro-growth." August 16, 2007 | | web only The Economics of Bill Richardson The Democratic presidential hopeful may indeed be both "pro-growth" and progressive. But his rhetoric isn't good for the Democrats, progressivism, or even a future Richardson presidency. August 16, 2007 | | web only NOLA's Failed Education Experiment Privatization runs amok in the post-Katrina New Orleans school system. August 15, 2007 | | web only The Medical Credit Card Trap Health care providers are pushing special credit cards as a way for the cash-strapped under-insured to cover their medical expenses. But then the bills start piling up. August 15, 2007 | | web only GOP Candidates Alienate Latino Voters Republicans, who just a few short years ago were trying to court Latino voters, will come to regret the anti- immigration one-upmanship they've exhibited in the primary campaign. August 15, 2007 | | web only Unrequited Love: Musings on Girls Gone Mild Author Wendy Shalit wrongly blames lenient baby-boomer parents and third- wave feminists for the hyper- sexual culture that surrounds young women. August 14, 2007 | | web only What Really Brought Rove Down? When the Bush administration angered one of its most hard-right officials, he launched an investigation into Karl Rove's politicization of the federal government. August 14, 2007 | | web only The Idiot Weapon TAP talks to urbanist Mike Davis about Buda's Wagon, his new book on the history of the car bomb, how it has fundamentally changed urban life, and why "terrorism" is a useless term. August 13, 2007 | | web only The Story of the Hurricane In his new book, Storm World, Chris Mooney tries to stay apolitical as he unpacks the complicated history and science of storms and climate. August 10, 2007 | | web only Dems Need to Think Post-War, Post-Haste It's time for the Democrats to start planning beyond the Petraeus report to what happens during and after the departure of U.S. troops from Iraq. August 10, 2007 | | web only Trial of the Century Bamako is an uneven but memorable meditation on Africa and the follies of Western aid. August 10, 2007 | | web only Reforming a Prison Nation Two students of mass incarceration in America discuss the current political moment and the prospects for rolling back the carceral state. August 9, 2007 | | web only Barry Bonds: Less Ruthian Than Faustian Bonds' decision to use steroids, if that was his decision, was deeply wrong. But his sins are distinctly sins of our time. August 9, 2007 | | web only Tracking Pharma Gifts to Doctors A slow wheel is beginning to turn in Congress in favor of forcing Big Pharma to disclose the amount of change it's dropping into doctors' pockets. August 9, 2007 | | web only The Failure of Antigovernment Conservatism Issues like children's health insurance and maintaining our infrastructure offer progressives a golden opportunity to say that sometimes government is not the problem, it's the solution. August 8, 2007 | | web only Dispatches From the Konservetkult Today's members of the right-wing culture patrol see ideological subtext everywhere they look. August 8, 2007 | | web only Antiwar Republicans Facing Early Campaign Challenges Republicans like Rep. Walter Jones who are advocating withdrawal from Iraq find themselves already confronted by '08 election challenges from pro-war candidates. August 7, 2007 | | web only Day Laborers Rally in Virginia Workers and their allies gathered to protest the impending closure of a day worker center that allowed them to safely seek employment, regardless of immigration status. August 7, 2007 | | web only GOP Debate: Obama Wins! The Republican candidates couldn't stop talking about Barack Obama at their Iowa debate last weekend. August 7, 2007 | | web only Dingell Versus the Democrats In congressional fights over energy, Michigan's John Dingell won some early symbolic victories on behalf of polluters. But Democrats are starting to abandon the increasingly unpopular "Dean of Congress." August 7, 2007 | | web only Bomb-Throwers With Power Points As YearlyKos demonstrated this time around, the netroots' true nature is to be a little bit boring. August 6, 2007 | | web only The Long View Before Democrats get excited about taking back the White House in 2008, they'd do well to remember that history is shaped by long-term trends, not short-term revolutions. August 6, 2007 | | web only How "Guestworkers" Promote Outsourcing The tech industry lobbies hard for more visas for high-skilled workers. But the progam won't keep American jobs from going overseas. August 6, 2007 | | web only More Than a Prayer for Single Payer TAP talks to the co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program about why a single-payer system remains an achievable goal. August 6, 2007 | | web only Darfur and the Limits of "Awareness" A new documentary offers an impressionistic catalog of horrors in western Sudan but skimps on context or prescription. August 3, 2007 | | web only Bernie Sanders' Tussle With Nussle The Vermont populist vows to hold up the president's pick for OMB chief until he starts speaking some truth about the economy. August 3, 2007 | | web only Bergman's Twilight Room of the Soul Like the dark spaces between frames on a filmstrip, Ingmar Bergman took us to the unlit gaps in our own emotions. August 3, 2007 | | web only Pushing Back Against Privatization Two small but significant victories in the fight against the Bush administration's outsourcing of government jobs. August 3, 2007 | | web only Tillman Tribulations Donald Rumsfeld and high-level generals deny a conspiracy surrounding Pat Tillman's death, but their stories have changed so many times, it's hard to take their word. August 2, 2007 | | web only A Man With a (Non-)Plan Rudy Giuliani's health care "plan" is less a good-faith reform proposal than a cudgel with which to bash liberals. August 2, 2007 | | web only The Speaker in Charge Iraq, emissions, and impeachment remain thorny and potentially divisive issues. But for now, with several important Democratic bills about to pass both houses of Congress, Nancy Pelosi is a happy warrior. August 2, 2007 | | web only The Iran Attack That Wasn't How reporters trumped up a story about Iranians killing Americans in Iraq. August 2, 2007 | | web only The Tortured Path to the Minimum Wage Hike Given the minority party we have in Congress and the president we have in the White House, the mere passage of the wage increase was a feat just short of magical. August 2, 2007 | | web only States Lead the Way on Health Care Reform With little federal movement toward fixing health care, it's time to look to forward-thinking state initiatives like Healthy Wisconsin. August 1, 2007 | | web only How the Stevens Raid Proves Rudy Can't Win The latest GOP scandal doesn't bode well for the Republican presidential candidates -- Giuliani in particular -- as they try to gain traction with their scandal-weary base. August 1, 2007 | | web only Show-Off Nation How our consumer obsession with originality and authenticity affects our taste in political candidates. August 1, 2007 | | web only Challenging the GOP's Filibluster The Senate Democrats' strategy in dealing with Republican obstruction hasn't worked so far. Here's what they should do instead. August 1, 2007 | | web only |
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