The Editors

In case you missed the inaugural day of our John McCain awareness week, check out Matt Yglesias on McCain’s startlingly familiar (and dangerous) foreign policy, Mark Schmitt on the Washington-manufactured Maverick myth and Harold Meyerson on McCain’s emphasis on his biography over any particular ideology. Today we have Dana Goldstein on education and Paul Waldman […]

It’s with a great deal of sadness that the Prospect bids farewell to Kate Sheppard who is moving on to be Grist‘s one-woman DC bureau. We’re all excited to see what she does there, but we’ll miss her, especially on TAPPED. Until new writing fellows are hired (there’s still a few days left to apply!), […]

Brian Beutler Reports: Earlier this month, the House Judiciary Committee filed a motion (PDF file) against current and former Bush administration figures in civil court, with the limited aims of securing testimony and documents regarding the firings of nine U.S. attorneys by the Justice Department under the watch of then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Acting on […]

Prospect fearless leader Harold Meyerson writes about the possibility of Democrats overcoming their longstanding internal divisions: The fault lines of the ’60s persisted for decades, not least because the linchpin of Republican electoral strategy since 1968 has been to paint the Democrats as peaceniks of questionable patriotism and as cultural elitists indifferent if not hostile […]

In this week’s edition Dean Baker tells us about McCain‘s economic illiteracy: What was Senator McCain thinking when he recently boasted about the “economic progress” that we have seen over the last seven years? It’s not clear what “progress” Senator McCain had in mind, but it’s hard to find data that would support his case. […]

Ezra Klein‘s Pennsylvania postmortem explores the reality behind Sen. Clinton‘s adopted campaign alter ego: Some laughed when Clinton compared herself to Rocky: She is, after all, the anointed leader of the most powerful family and political organization in Democratic politics. But the analogy appears more apt than she knew. Rocky, after all, did not beat […]

Sarah Posner on the religious right: Kenneth Copeland Ministries continues its battle against Sen. Chuck Grassley, arguing that it’s a matter of religious freedom. John McCain begins to shore up his support with the religious right, tapping into Mike Huckabee‘s newfound influence. And the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network goes up against Mission America, […]

Ann Friedman interviews the former Goodyear employee on gender-based pay discrimination and her losing case before the Roberts-led Supreme Court: How did you finally find out how much your male co-workers were making? The only way that I really knew was that someone left an anonymous note in my mailbox showing my pay and the […]

Paul Waldman performs an autopsy on the media reaction to last week’s debate and finds a cancer within: Brooks’ justification of the ABC personalities’ shark-jumping performance was emblematic of the press’ self-conception, the exaltation of the passive voice. “Issues” like flag pins “will be important.” And how will this happen? From whence will this importance […]

Holly Yeager sees a silver lining in the drawn-out Democratic nomination battle: There is good news in the prolonged battle for the nomination, too. Democratic registration rolls have swelled and voters in states that normally don’t get a say in the primary process are welcoming the attention. But there is another, often overlooked, benefit of […]