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Paul Waldman on the politicization of mammograms: The last thing Democrats needed, with reform still not passed, was any kind of health-care controversy. Yet that’s just what they got when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force came out with a new set of guidelines on breast cancer screening, pushing back the suggested age for regular […]

Jeff Faux notes that if the dollar crashes, it will take our economic cushion down with it: The word from Washington and Wall Street is that the worst is over. Sure, it will take a while for jobs to recover, for housing to come back, and for wages to rise. But we are definitely on […]

Gabriel Arana explains why more than marriage is at stake in the federal legal challenge to Prop. 8: On Nov. 4, 2008, when the polls closed on the West Coast and media outlets reported that California voters had passed Proposition 8, gay-rights supporters across the country were stunned. How could the purported gay haven of […]

Terence Samuel explains why Democrats need to focus on jobs: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will win his motion to proceed on a health-care reform package that should shave $127 billion off the federal budget deficit over the next decade — the legislation will come to the floor of the Senate before Thanksgiving. In practical […]

Matthew Duss on Iran’s legitimacy problem: The “war on terror” was pretty great for Iran’s hardliners. The Bush administration’s 2002 inclusion of Iran in the “Axis of Evil” was a major blow to Iranian moderates, discrediting their calls for U.S.-Iran rapprochement and supporting the claims of Iran’s hard-liners that engagement with America was pointless. The […]

Gershom Gorenberg on selective disobedience in Israel: Driving through the West Bank recently, I picked up two hitchhikers. Both wore the long, thick sidelocks and extra-large skullcaps that have become the mark of young men on the religious right, especially among settlers. Since they were what Israelis call army age (what Americans would call college […]

Tim Fernholz on the need to consider strategy and resources in Afghanistan: Last week, President Barack Obama rejected four different plans for what to do in Afghanistan, each one including an increase in the number of U.S. troops in the region. Resources — how much money and how many troops — are at the forefront […]

Julie Strawn explains how we can fix our community colleges: Community colleges, far more than four-year colleges, serve groups that will dominate our undergraduate student populations and our work force for decades to come: students on their own financially, older students, people of color, parents, first-generation college students, and immigrants. Although widely viewed as gateways […]

Alexandra Gutierrez reviews Michael Bérubé‘s new book The Left at War: In June of 2002, a British university dissolved one of its smaller departments. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was shuttered, and students eager to research the culture of soccer hooliganism or the effect of teen-rag advice columns on adolescents’ burgeoning sexuality were effectively […]