Christopher Sopher

Sarah Posner on the future of the religious right: After nearly two years, it’s time for a change. That’s why the Prospect editors and I have decided that this week will mark a send-off for The FundamentaList. After rallying around Palin and losing, the religious right now faces a mediocre bench of prospects for 2012, […]

Greg Anrig on the four ways states could squander the stimulus: When President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law Feb. 17, he underscored how state governments would be largely responsible for implementing the legislation. Edward G. Rendell, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania and chair of the National […]

Matt Duss on how the lessons al-Qaeda learned in Iraq are informing the next generation of fighters: One of the key developments leading to the decline in violence in Iraq was the creation and deputization by U.S. forces of Sunni tribal paramilitaries — many of them former al-Qaeda-affiliated insurgents — to police their own neighborhoods. […]

Proving that young people are the solution to, well, just about everything, there’s an important nugget of information buried in the much-discussed New York Times/CBS News health care poll released Saturday. The poll found 72 percent of respondents supported a public plan, but also a striking generational gap in attitudes about universal health care. Americans […]

Just in time for Father’s Day, Men’s Health editor-in-chief David Zincenko penned a USA Today op-ed heralding the “Great He-cession” as one more example of how men are “an endangered species.” Citing statistics about men’s declining job security, shorter life span, and lack of government attention, he pits women against men in a delusional race […]