Features

Using the Department of Justice, friendly governors, and its usual propaganda outlets, the GOP has propagated the myth of voter fraud to purge the rolls of non-Republicans.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be neophyte class warriors, but their populism is more than just rhetorical — and must be, if the Democrats are to win the election and govern successfully.

To keep the world’s tinder box from exploding even more violently, George W. Bush’s successor is going to have to pursue a radically different Middle Eastern policy. Some policy pointers: Get out of Iraq. Work with (some) Islamists. Create the Palestinian state. Thereby, undercut al-Qaeda.

Barack Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we’ve heard from a serious presidential contender in decades. But will voters buy it?

Who should round out the Democratic ticket? Prospect writers and editors weigh the merits and demerits of some of the oft-mentioned contenders.

Faced with tough budget decisions, many states are turning to gambling as an answer to their economic woes. But most end up getting far more than they bargained for.

Black Hawk is one of three Colorado towns that decided to allow limited-stakes gambling. Residents have learned the hard way that the house always wins.

In Mississippi, African American leaders are the foremost champions of the state’s growing Latino immigrant population. Some day soon, they hope, the new alliance will transform the state’s reactionary politics.

With the economic crisis becoming more dire by the day, Democrats will win on pocketbook issues only if they recover the imagination and nerve to offer remedies on a scale equal to the problems.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have two different approaches to fixing the economy, and the country. It’s less about what to do than how to do it.