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From our June print issue: Scooter Libby was a nice liberal boy until he met Paul Wolfowitz — who’d been a nice liberal boy till he met Albert Wohlstetter. A brief history of apocalyptic neoconservatism.

After the failure of adventures based on fantasies, it’s time for a big dose of reality in America’s Mideast policy. America’s most notable foreign policy realist speaks with the Prospect.

A lasting peace between Israel and Palestine cannot be achieved by Israelis and Palestinians. It requires the strong engagement of the U.S. and the international community.

It’s January, 2009. A Democrat has just become president and confronts one mean conundrum: What’s the best way to leave Iraq?

Why do some poor communities fall apart while others cohere? Community organization can help — up to a point.

How Europe, Canada, and our own VA do health care better.

Liberalism is deeply rooted in American soil, so much so that in the years after World War II, many historians and social scientists regarded the liberal project and the American civic creed as more or less the same. The proposition that each of us has a right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” […]

Stuart P. Slotnick does not look like a rebellious lawyer. Photos of him alongside prominent Republicans including Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg decorate his office on the 35th floor of One Chase Manhattan Plaza, and a World War II-era “Pledge of Allegiance” poster hangs behind his desk. He dresses in a crisp white shirt with […]

Wal-Mart, as everybody knows, began in the backwaters of the rural South — though not everybody knows just how rural, how southern, how backwater. Wal-Mart’s southernness, however, is precisely what sets the chain apart from the handful of other companies that once dominated the American economy: Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, General Motors, IBM. None imposed […]

“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to avoid being deceived by economists.” — Joan Robinson, Cambridge University On page one of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith illustrates the central principle of his economics with an example taken from, in his words, […]