Impeachment
Departments
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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.
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Up Front
The ultimate WSJ headline, T.A. Frank parodies a letter from Alberto Gonzales, and we ask, "Whom would you like to see impeached?"
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Correspondence
Features
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The Myth of the Balanced Court
In 1980, John Paul Stevens stood at the center of the Supreme Court. Today, he is its most left-wing member -- and he hasn't changed.
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This Year's Charade
Mitt Romney may be campaigning as the compassionate conservative, but, as George W. Bush has shown, winning the right wing's backing guarantees a right-wing president.
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First Gonzales, then Bush
Impeachment should be a serious option -- with an intermediary step.
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Share the Credit
Why extending income tax credits to payroll tax payers should be the next big idea in American politics -- politically unassailable, progressive economics on a grand scale.
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The Trouble with Impeachment
Bush and Cheney merit impeachment and conviction -- that doesn't make it a good idea.
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Young, Black, and Post-Civil Rights
There's a new generation of African American political leaders, and they aren't confining their careers to black districts -- they're calling for race-blind, not race-based, policies.
Columns
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All Trivial! All the Time!
From John Edwards' $400 haircuts to Hillary Clinton's cleavage to Barack Obama's swimming trunks, the line between political journalism and the gossip pages appears to have broken down.
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What Worker Rights Can Do
It's in the interest of those who favor free trade to see that worker rights are a fixture in trade agreements.
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Windfall or Wipeout?
If Democrats win in '08, they might inherit a messy economic situation. The question is, will they still have the nerve to think big?
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Every Fight Tells a Story
Democrats are trying to keep political conflicts small and manageable, while Republicans keep trying to make them bigger.
Culture
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Ready to Rumble
Political reporter Matt Bai dissects today's Democratic Party, and urges it to move beyond the Clintonism of the '90s -- something that the current crop of presidential candidates (John Edwards excepted) doesn't seem all that inclined to do.
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Road Pictures for Our Time
Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom is that rare Western artist who can depict the streets of Tehran and Karachi. It's movie stars that trip him up.
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Which Kind of Economics?
Economist Bryan Caplan confuses reality with ideology, to unfortunate effect; economist Richard Freeman calls for open-source unions, which might just point the way to a revival of the labor movement.
Special Report
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Deforestation and Global Markets
An Amazonian dilemma: Brazil has become a global producer, and China a global consumer.
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The Fractured Landscape
A road here and a cattle ranch there imperil more than the immediate vicinity.
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The Search for Solutions
From indigenous people to carbon traders, concerned groups have stepped up the fight to save the Amazon.
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Biodiversity in Jeopardy
There are more life forms in Amazonia than anyplace else. But by the end of this century, there may be many fewer.
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Better Governance
Expanding the network of protected areas and better environmental-law enforcement can help to curb deforestation.
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Whither Amazonia?
A new generation of forest-friendly political leaders has emerged in parts of the Amazon.
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The Role of the Public Sector
Concerted governmental policies to protect the forest have been few and far between.
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The Economics of Storing Carbon
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Till the Cows Come Home
Once economically marginal, cattle ranching in the Amazon now yields big bucks.
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Climate Change and the Forest
Warming breeds drought, drought breeds fires, fires release carbon, carbon breeds warming.
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The Shielded Guianas
The global economy discovers the most obscure corner of the rainforest.
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Deforestation and Poor Amazonians
Brazil's forest dwellers, often its best stewards, are trying hard to make a living from the standing forest.
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Tomorrow's Amazonia
As farming, ranching, and logging shrink the globe's great rainforest, the planet heats up. A Prospect special report on the assaults on, and the efforts to protect, the Amazon.
