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.
Napolitano, In Her Own Words
A transcript of the Prospect’s interview with Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona.
Where’s Our Domestic AIDS Plan?
The U.S. expects other countries to put together a national AIDS plan before they receive funding. But we don’t even have our own national AIDS strategy.
Does EMILY’s List Still Matter?
EMILY’s List is one of the largest PACs in the nation and funds only pro-choice, female candidates. But is it still as effective as it once was?
What’s Needed Next
An Office of National Mental Health Policy would be an important step toward completing the transformation in the care and support for people with mental illnesses.
Pushing Parity
Congress is poised to end insurance discrimination against people with mental illnesses.
Mind Reading
Technological advances catapult mental health to the forefront of ethics debates.
Follow the Money
How shortsighted funding and reimbursement warps mental-health care in America
Programs That Work
Clubhouses and ACT are proven successes. So why aren’t they better known or funded?
Finding Funding
States should link mental-health funding to dedicated revenue sources independent of the political whims of legislators. Here are some creative examples.
Beyond Hillary: By Invitation Only
Prominent women are one-third less likely to be encouraged to run for office than prominent men.
Continental Drift
As Europe suffers the effects of a financial crisis made in the USA, its left opposition parties are surprisingly stymied. For many Europeans, the hope for change is Barack Obama.
Beyond Hillary: Woman Versus Machine
Women do best in places where political machines are weak or absent and worst where culture is most traditional.
A Worthy Diversion
Pennsylvania has developed a model program to keep offenders with mental illness out of the criminal-justice system.
Janet Napolitano and the New Third Way
Arizona’s governor has contained Republicans, reinvigorated Democrats, and provided a new model for progressive politics in the West.
America’s AIDS Apartheid
The domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic is increasingly black and Southern — and spiraling out of control.
Combat Fatigue
Barry Roma, a postal worker and a disabled Vietnam veteran, tells people not to be afraid of him. He is joking, sort of. He knows how veterans — and postal workers — are seen by many people, and luckily he has a sense of humor. By night, he works as a mail handler in Chicago…
A Professor’s Story
Going public about mental illness is not like revealing any other kind of disease.
Media and Madness
For better and worse, the news media and entertainment industry shape public opinion about mental illness.
Beyond Hillary: Strength in Numbers
The Year of the Woman was 16 years ago, and the number of women in elected office has flatlined. Herewith, some ideas on how to build a critical mass of female officeholders.
On Our Own
Liberal institutions that once imitated conservative ones are now far surpassing their role models. The quick-moving, imaginative progressive think tank now makes its conservative analogue look like a threadbare brand name from the 1970s.
Our CEOs, Their Foreign Agents
From our July/August print issue: International business executives with enormous domestic influence cater to the demands of authoritarian regimes abroad.
The Year of Passion
In this year’s primaries, for the first time in many election cycles, Democrats were carried by inspiration, rather than political calculation.
Freedom’s Future Online
In his new book, Jonathan Zittrain argues the very qualities that make the personal computer and the Internet so valuable are the source of their vulnerability and possible undoing.
Partisans’ Progress
Princeton political scientist Larry Bartels casts provocative light on what’s at stake when Americans go to the polls.
The White Stuff
The blog Stuff White People Like, became an Internet sensation but it’s more than just a humor blog — the site tells us something about the mostly white, affluent audience that has so enthusiastically embraced a mocking rundown of their culture.
Make It Personal
Two Yale political scientists set out to see what actually gets people out to the polls — and found out it all comes down to a personal touch.
All the Young Bankers
A new generation of business-minded young graduates of prestigious colleges finances the Democratic Party — but at what cost?
Beyond Hillary: 7 Democratic Women to Watch
Profiles of the next generation of progressive women political leaders.
