The Editors

Adam Nagourney and Michael Cooper had a piece in The New York Times on Sunday about John McCain’s reliance on Teddy Roosevelt as a political role model. Matthew Yglesias made note of this in The American Prospect’s May cover story, and argued that McCain’s hero worship of Teddy is a bad omen for his foreign […]

Yesterday, Henry Paulson called for Congress to pass a multi-billion dollar bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation’s two biggest mortgage finance companies. While their collapse has shocked many, the American Prospect‘s Dean Baker isn’t surprised. In February he wrote that the Bush administration’s stimulus package would “hasten the collapse of Fannie and […]

Samhita Mukhopadhyay analyzes the politics of the popular blog Stuff White People Like. Commentators and bloggers of all races have hailed the site as groundbreaking. Some have said it is edgy and deals with white privilege in a real way; others have said that it is a refreshing and funny take on racism in our […]

Sarah Posner interviews Jeff Sharlet, author of a new book on the secretive religious group know as The Family: The Family is best known to the public for its annual National Prayer Breakfast, a seemingly innocuous event routinely attended by presidents and members of Congress. But as Sharlet shows, The Family’s real influence is exerted […]

Rich Kahlenberg writes that the left is headed for a damaging and unnecessary battle over education: Just as Democrats have finally settled on a nominee and begun to unite, a major new fight has broken out between competing factions in the liberal education-policy community. One group argues that poverty should not be used as an […]

Kai Wright on the increasing rate of AIDS among black people in the south: Meanwhile, an AIDS apartheid has hardened here. John Edwards’ two Americas are perhaps most clearly witnessed in the waiting rooms of AIDS clinics around the country. African Americans, who are 13 percent of the U.S. population, now account for a stunning […]

Dana Goldstein profiles Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano (read a transcript of their discussion here) and concludes that she sounds an awful lot like a certain presidential candidate: Napolitano was under a lot of pressure. Nevertheless, on Jan. 11, a few weeks ahead of Arizona’s Super Tuesday primary, she announced her support for Barack Obama, citing […]

Ezra has the details on how you can help make Brian Beutler‘s recovery a little easier. –The Editors

Gershom Gorenberg writes about the trip Obama needs but can’t afford politically: Sometime in the weeks ahead, Jerusalem will receive the latest in a long line of American political pilgrims — Barack Obama. Obama’s entire overseas swing will be a tightrope act — necessary, but unforgiving of a single stumble. Nowhere will the contradictory purposes […]

Ezra Klein writes that, given it’s modest goals, Massachusetts’ health-care plan has been a modest success: Covering this many adults has cost a fair amount of money, and the Massachusetts plan is coming in at about $150 million over budget. The reason? There are more uninsured people in Massachusetts than experts originally thought, and the […]