Matthew Yglesias

General David Petraeus is appearing before Congress this week to continue the debate over the success of the surge. But the surge has already worked — it’s turned the Iraq War into the next president’s problem.

Prospect writers discuss the fifth season of the critically acclaimed HBO series.

Kosovo’s formal declaration of independence shows how modest humanitarian hawks’ accomplishments have been.

If the Democrats want to emerge from this primary ready to face Republicans in the general election, they need to find a cohesive, defensible way to talk about their foreign policy and how it differs from that of Republicans.

Individual mandates are all the rage among progressive health policy experts. Too bad they’re a terrible idea.

Ever heard of the Logan Act? If not, you’re lucky — a normal, decent person who hasn’t been exposed to oodles of right-wing propaganda. For the record, however, it was passed during the John Adams administration, during the era of the Alien and Sedition Acts, and subjects to criminal sanctions any citizen “who, without authority […]

In case Rudy Giuliani’s penchant for cross-dressing had you doubting his conservative In case Rudy Giuliani’s penchant for cross-dressing had you doubting his conservative bona fides, doubt no more. “I regard myself as a supply-sider for sure,” he told Larry Kudlow on March 27. And just in case you weren’t clear that […]

“I don’t rule out at some point that might be a useful thing to do,” “I don’t rule out at some point that might be a useful thing to do,” Condoleezza Rice told reporters late last week before flying to Egypt. “That,” it turns out, is trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. […]

Hopes springs eternal in left-of-center American circles that the nation is poised for a comeback of bold, progressive solutions to the country’s ills. Hope, however, appears to be springing unusually strongly of late. Hopes springs eternal in left-of-center American circles that the nation is poised for a comeback of bold, […]