Universal broadband internet is going to be spectacularly disruptive, and the challenge isn’t just going to be getting everyone connected.
Paul Starr
Paul Starr is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Bancroft Prize in American history, he is the author of eight books, including American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now (Yale University Press, October 2025).
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Breaking the Grip of the Past
Reflexive conservative ideology remains a powerful factor in national debate. So it’s crucial–if not for Obama, then for others–to continue to press the case that our present problems have ideological roots.
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The Realignment Opportunity
Conservatives say that America remains a center-right country and Obama won only because of special circumstances, while some liberals claim that the election marks a historic realignment. Neither is the right way to read the returns.
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The American Collision
A presidential race between Obama and McCain was supposed to bring a less-polarized politics, so why hasn’t it worked out that way?
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The Year of Passion
In this year’s primaries, for the first time in many election cycles, Democrats were carried by inspiration, rather than political calculation.
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Freedom’s Future Online
In his new book, Jonathan Zittrain argues the very qualities that make the personal computer and the Internet so valuable are the source of their vulnerability and possible undoing.
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VICE PRESIDENT GORE? AGAIN?
James Carville says Obama should pick Al Gore for vice president. Here are some reasons Democrats are likely to take this option seriously, unless Gore himself rules it out. Gore answers the need for “experience,” but unlike Nunn and various others who’ve been mentioned, he doesn’t contradict the message of change or raise any tensions […]
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Lullaby of Baghdad
Are we winning the Iraq war, or is what little progress we have achieved actually an illusion?
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A NEW DEAL OF THEIR OWN.
The March issue of The American Prospect carries a special report, “Mobilizing Millennials: Will Their Economic Raw Deal Fuel the Next New Deal?” in which I have an article, “A New Deal of Their Own.” Here I pursue a theme that I have raised in Freedom’s Power and in a series of articles (see an […]
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HURTLING TOWARD DISASTER.
The Democratic Party continues hurtling toward disaster, as now Michigan as well as Florida Democrats have proved unable to agree on plans for a new primary. While Senator Hillary Clinton has supported the proposed do-overs, Senator Barack Obama’s campaign has opposed them–leaving the party with no apparent option for representing either state at the national […]
