The Editors

Hey all, It’s been an incredibly exciting year here at TAP Online, and, well, we’re ready for a break. The blog will be a little less frequent in content over the next week and a half while our staff enjoys some much-need time off. We’ll still be publishing about an article a day over on […]

Paul Waldman looks at how far we’ve come on healthcare, and where we still have to go: Since the remarkable results of Nov. 4, there has been much discussion about the new progressive moment in which America finds itself. But it has actually been evident for some time that we’re talking about old issues in […]

Gershom Gorenberg explains how a far-rightist hijaked Israel’s Likud party: I met Moshe Feiglin, today the rebel prince of Israel’s Likud party, in September 1998, at the Jerusalem Convention Center. Fifteen hundred radical rightists were pouring into the big graceless lobby. They’d come for an annual convention dedicated to rebuilding the ancient Jewish Temple where […]

In an article from our new print issue, Robert Kuttner explains: History has delivered Barack Obama the greatest economic crisis since the one that greeted Franklin Roosevelt. As in 1933, the crisis is the direct result of free-market ideology and conservative misrule, which once again stand disgraced. This creates a once-in-a-century opportunity for Obama to […]

Prospect Executive Editor Mark Schmitt and Reason magazine Editor-in-Chief Matt Welch recorded a blogginheads segment last week. Here they are on the possibility of avoiding a depression and courting inflation: And on Washington in the wake of Obama’s victory: Here’s the whole thing: –The Editors

Courtney Martin writes about new opportunities in a new year: As I read coverage of the unpublished 513-page account of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq, a wave of sad recognition washed over me. The narrative thread of how a $100 billion effort to “save” Iraq became a giant save-your-own-ass bureaucracy was one that I had […]

Conservatives have taken to condemning the New Deal with unusual zeal in recent months as the need for a second New Deal becomes clear. Eric Rauchway explains that they’re wrong, but that President Roosevelt did make some big mistakes: Any smart historian of the 1930s is a New Deal critic. The Obama administration unquestionably needs […]

“New CBO report” is not a phrase that generates a lot of click-throughs, but Ezra Klein makes the case that today’s report on health care is extremely important (and that the CBO matters a lot more than you think): Kennedy‘s office sent out a press release. The New York Times ran a story. The Wonk […]

In an article from our last print issue inaugurating a new feature in the magazine, Michael Tomasky describes a book that changed his life: The idea of “life changing” led me to reach into the memory hole for those rare occasions when reading a book so fired my mind that, while I was immersed in […]

Dana Goldstein reports on how Finland’s education success shows that reform is both possible and more complex than we think: That’s right: Merit pay exists in Finland. So does school choice; only the most academically-inclined Finnish 15-year-olds continue their education in general (as opposed to vocational) upper secondary schools, which compete with one another for […]