The Editors

Mark Schmitt on why an ability to wrangle the Senate is what will make or break the next president: “The most troublesome task of a reform President,” wrote Henry Adams, is “bringing the Senate back to decency.” Adams was writing about the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, which began with an Obamaesque promise of national […]

TAP‘s own Sarah Posner was writing about John Hagee and Rod Parsley long before the evangelical ministers stepped into the spotlight this week with their endorsements of John McCain. Check out these profiles from our archives: With God On His SideSarah Posner | October 23, 2005Meet Rod Parsley: rising star of the religious right, GOP […]

Over at TAP Online, David Greenberg reviews Jacob Heilbrunn‘s They Knew They Were Right: Not long ago the term “neoconservative” seemed ripe for retirement. The label was originally applied in the 1960s and 1970s to the ex-liberals (themselves ex-socialists) who turned halfway to the right after becoming disenchanted with the Great Society, left-wing politics, and […]

Gershom Gorenberg on the ongoing crisis in Gaza: The most important news photo from Israel this week was the one that didn’t appear. It would have shown 40,000 unarmed Palestinian marchers, children and women and men, pouring through a gap trampled in the border fence around Gaza toward Israeli troops. With tear gas failing to […]

Over at TAP Online we consider who could fill the number two spot: Though the Democratic presidential contest has turned into a longer-running show than anyone could have imagined, it’s not too early to begin the quadrennial quest for the perfect Democratic vice-presidential running mate. Accordingly, the Prospect asked a group of journalists and politicos […]

Tara McKelvey reports on one vet’s campaign to turn his experience into a lesson for lawmakers: Over the past several years, [Andrew] Pogany has visited military installations, set up meetings between congressional leaders and soldiers, and examined ways the Army can improve its mental-health care. On Jan. 1, 2008, he was hired as an investigator […]

Over on his blog, Ezra explains that the much blogged-about Kos diary on Clinton and Obama‘s legislative records isn’t even close to a fair comparison. –The Editors

Matthew Yglesias on the humanitarian liberal hawks spawned by Kosovo: With Kosovo’s formal declaration of independence from Serbia on Monday, and the United States’ decision to extend recognition to the planet’s newest country, the time has come for a look back on the approximately 10 years of intense U.S. involvement in that conflict. Kosovo is […]