A response to a much-chattered-about article by an upper-middle-class white woman who was appalled to find herself judged when she applied for food stamps.
Conservatism
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Why the IRS Non-Scandal Perfectly Represents Today’s GOP
Nearly everything you need to know about today’s Republicans is represented in this particular fruitless quest to nail Barack Obama.
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Justice Samuel Alito’s Deep Roots in the American Right
He’s the most pro-corporate jurist on the Supreme Court. So decisions that grant companies religious rights or take aim at labor unions come quite naturally to him.
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Corporate Tax Behavior So Bad Even Fortune Magazine Can’t Stomach It
These are companies that even a top cheerleader for the corporate class can’t bring itself to defend.
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Can ‘Reformicons’ Save the Republican Party?
They may come up with a new version of conservatism, but will they be able to sell it to today’s GOP?
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Shifting Tactics, Moral Monday Movement Launches a New Freedom Summer
Fifty years after the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, North Carolina activists move from civil disobedience to big voter mobilization push.
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Searching for the Next Great Conservative Novel
Adam Bellow urges conservatives to support right-wing fiction. Best of luck to him: Here’s why it won’t be easy.
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Watch Paul Waldman on Washington Journal
See the Prospect’s contributing editor not react to a caller’s assertion of a particular sort of enagement by members of a political party with a moose appendage.
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Supreme Court Rules Disadvantaged Workers Should Be Disadvantaged Some More
The decision in Harris v. Quinn—written by the Court’s leading union-hater, Justice Samuel Alito—appears designed to cripple unions by creating incentives for “free riders.”
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Why the Fight Over Executive Authority Will Define the Rest of Barack Obama’s Presidency
When Republicans made it impossible for the president to run the government, he found ways around their obstruction. And that made them really, really mad.
