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.
Executive Branch
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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.
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Memo to Next V.A. Chief: How Technology Allowed Corruption to Flourish, Hurting Veterans
President Obama has tapped Robert A. McDonald to run the embattled Department of Veterans Affairs. Here’s what he’ll need to understand about the limits of the V.A.’s vaunted electronic records program.
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Why Did Bowe Bergdahl Walk Away?
The former prisoner of war may be no hero, but his walking into the night armed with only a knife raises questions about his state of mind.
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Time for Democrats to Stop Celebrating Andrew Jackson
Democrats have rightly condemned the racist name of Washington, D.C.’s NFL team. So why do they continue to name their fundraising dinners after the president who presided over the genocide of Native Americans?
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What Divides Democrats
It’s economics: Cory Booker’s Wall Street liberalism versus Bill de Blasio’s anti-corporate populism. These divisions will shape the 2016 presidential contest.Â
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If Obama Wants the GOP’s Help in Syria, He Must Deal with Torture First
Why the lingering shadows of the Bush administration are making across-the-aisle deals on foreign policy impossible.
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The New Deal That Could Have Been
How the white-supremacist South made possible the New Deal—and drastically curtailed it.
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Central Florida’s Corridor of Power
The massive Puerto Rican migration into Osceola County transformed Florida politics. Will it lift President Obama to another victory in the largest battleground state?
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The Grit and Grace of George McGovern
A fellow South Dakotan remembers his friend and mentor, who died on Sunday at age 90.
