Lessons from the Health Care Wars
Departments
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Hairdos and Don'ts
A lawsuit offers a peek into the world of high-end D.C. salons.
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Noted
Responses to Suzy Khimm and Tim Fernholz's "The Art of the Possible," David Kirp's "The Great School Delusion," and a note from Prospect executive editor Mark Schmitt.
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Up Front
Financial regulation
for everyone; the presidential
body mass index; and
The Question. -
Playing the Long Game
Obama realizes that transformative presidents look past day-to-day disasters.
Features
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A Tea Party for Obama
The power of mobilized independent citizens is easily forgotten and often denied by the Washington cognoscenti.
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The Obama Doctrine, Revisited
Is the president living up to his foreign-policy promises to quash fear and promote dignity? He's doing better abroad than he is at home.
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The Peter Principle
Republicans have found the perfect spokesman for a substance-free election.
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Drill, Maybe Drill?
Upstate New York is in a battle over natural-gas drilling.
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An Unnatural Alliance
Progressives and green
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Give 'Em Hell, Barry
What Barack Obama can learn from Harry Truman's inspired use of partisanship.
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The Virtual University
The demand for higher education is rapidly eclipsing the ability of
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Lessons from the Health-Care Wars
Activism on the ground creates pressure for bolder reform and gives liberal elected officials more room to maneuver.
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Why Can't Labor Get a Little More Help From Its Friends?
By delaying labor reform, Obama has followed in the
footsteps of earlier Democratic leaders who failed their union
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Change We Can Believe In
Strategies that rely on insider influence can't deliver large-scale change -- but mobilizations outside government can.
Columns
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Game Changer
It takes presidential leadership to break through our system's obstructionism.
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In Search of Arrogance
The legislative giants of past decades were not smarter or better people -- they simply had no hesitation about their entitlement to rule.
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On the Outs
When we mock politicians who are outed as gay, who are we really shaming? Are we decrying homophobia -- or fueling it?
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Don't Wait for Reform
There's already a law on the books that holds Wall Street CEOs and executives to account -- now it needs to be enforced.
Culture
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Ghost Stories
How ghostwriting went from scandal-in-waiting to acceptable political reality.
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Today's Other America
A large indentured class of workers is struggling to escape debt
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Our Racial Interior
As we try to avoid stereotypes, we actually reinforce group identity and discrimination.
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What the Pill Gave Birth To
The convergence of modern contraception and women's liberation was not intended or expected by the pill's inventors.
