Ragtime — an innovative tableau of real and fictional events in the early 20th century — legitimized the idea that the self-interested act can have an impact.
Terence Samuel
Terence Samuel is a Prospect senior correspondent and the author of The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the U.S. Senate, published by Palgrave Macmillan. Follow him on Twitter.
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Byrd: Defender of the Senate.
The Senate on any given day feels like a time machine, as if you’d just walked back into an America long dead and buried. There is still a rule in the Senate that senators should not address each other directly, which is a difficult task on the days when so many of them want to […]
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What We Didn’t Learn on Tuesday
Super-angry-voter syndrome is beginning to look increasingly like a fiction.
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How to Defend the Senate
Democrats will get credit for their accomplishments only if they are willing to claim them as such.
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Shouldn’t Obama Worry About the Midterms?
Sens. Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan announced plans to retire this year, and some Democrats are going into panic mode over the news. Should they?
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Ten Political Lessons for the New Year
This year was full of political scandals, blunders, and miscalculations. Here’s what Washington can learn from its mistakes.
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It’s Not Just About Copenhagen
In Papua New Guinea, the battle between environmental protection and economic development plays out with one controversial gas project.
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Racing the Clock on Jobs
While Afghanistan and health care dominate the news, Obama still needs to address the troubling job market.
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A Devil of a Job for Democrats
Forget making everyone healthy and saving the polar bears. If Democrats can’t solve the jobs problem, next year’s elections will be an uphill battle.
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That Old Republican Revival
Will the GOP be sufficiently rebuilt to challenge Obama and the Democrats in 2010? Probably not.