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The Obama presidency is far from over, but little survives of the original theory behind it.

Come next January, the great American impasse will be back in all its toxic splendor.

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.

Even as we make progress on specific issues, the broader culture war seems to get uglier and uglier.

Republicans caused our economic uncertainty. Progressives have answers.

Populism comes in two varieties — progressive and reactionary.

Tea Partiers are getting all the press, but it’s the anger on the left that spells trouble for Dems in the midterms.

Palin and her ilk claim to speak for moms but offer no policy solutions for working families.

Do liberals take civil liberties seriously enough?

Since the Prospect began publication as a quarterly with a circulation of 2,700, it’s been a forum for inspired argument, both with the right and within the liberal family.