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As chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus could help pass a progressive social-policy agenda. Or he could be its biggest roadblock.

A quiet revolution in the U.S. military has resurrected Vietnam-era strategies to fight the war on terrorism. Retired Lt. Col. John Nagl makes counterinsurgency seem so appealing that it’s easy to forget its dark side.

In the middle of our market economy sits an island of central planning, the Federal Reserve. No president or Congress dares challenge the power of its chairman, Ben Bernanke.

The Prospect rounds up five of the most interesting and unusual campaigns across the country — from a blind rabbi in New Jersey to an incumbent governor described as “Dick Cheney’s Dick Cheney.”

Populism is the theme of the year for Democratic candidates. Oil companies are the problem and green energy is the solution.

For a decade or more, we’ve been promised an electoral transformation: Younger voters, minorities, and women will prevail over the older, conservative majority. Is this the year the predictions come true?

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is poised for a rare achievement: a second consecutive cycle of sizable gains.
But with more Democrats may come more conflict.

The most difficult economic challenge of the next administration
will be to overhaul America’s collapsing financial system. Who will lead that effort?

History teaches us that presidents have to move quickly to enact progressive reforms before the window of opportunity closes forever. It’s a lesson Barack Obama should take to heart.

By espousing a brand of liberalism that’s heavy on personal freedom and light on divisive social issues, Democrats are finally being heard in the Mountain West.