What ails the president? The intractability of the political and capitalist forces that make curing the nation’s greatest ills virtually impossible.
Conservatism
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The Sound of Crickets: Conservative Sites Silent about GOP Voter-Registration Fraud
ACORN’s minor offenses became the right-wing scandal of the century. Nathan Sproul’s voter-registration fraud on behalf of the GOP elicits absolute silence from the Breitbarts and Drudges.
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Pennsyvlania Voter ID: Now Requested But Not Required
Thanks to a decision today by Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson, Pennsylvania’s controversial voter-ID law will not be in effect in November. Though voters will be asked for one of the several allowable government-issued photo IDs at the polls, those who do not have such identification will still be able to cast the usual ballot. […]
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Diane Ravitch Talks School Reform, the Chicago Strike, and the “Testing Vampire”
Part 1 of the Prospect’s interview with the former assistant secretary of education
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Reaping What Elections Sow
Just weeks before new state legislatures are elected, how can voters assess the sweeping changes ushered in by Tea Party Republicans?
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What? There’s a Nonpartisan Way to Run Elections!?
Wisconsin has created a model for nonpartisan election administration.
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The Great Conservative “No!”
William F. Buckley’s heirs are starving on a red-meat diet. Â
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Pilgrims in an Unholy Land
A Prospect reporter’s dispatch from the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.
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Mitt “Ayn Rand” Romney
The guiding Republican ideology—as evidenced by secret Romney remarks obtained by Mother Jones—may sustain a novel, but they don’t quite work in the real world.
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How We Should (Voter) Roll
In 2008, 2.2 million Americans couldn’t cast ballots because their voter registration was messed up. One in four aren’t registered at all. There may be a solution—and one that should please both left and right.Â
