When Abraham Lincoln tried to “gentrify” D.C.

Rising Democratic opposition to Obama‘s deficit plan.

Putin‘s dark side.

The war on contraception.

Politics is supposed to be a clash of visions.

Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also blogs at Jack and Jill Politics and has written for The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Root, and the Daily News. Follow @adamserwer