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The liberal post-Bush fantasy involves Watergate-style, months-long congressional hearings on the recently departed administration’s illicit activities, exposing the criminality of warrantless wiretapping, torture, rendition, and other programs. Except that President Barack Obama has already said he wants to move on. “We need to look forward as opposed to looking backward,” he told George Stephanopoulous in […]

Three people tell their stories of coping in the aftermath of Katrina.

How and why the predominantly black areas of the Gulf Coast are still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina.

Ultraconservative legal organization the Alliance Defense Fund is backing a California marriage ban with rhetoric about “defending” family and children.

Only by relinquishing some autonomy will teachers finally be able to attain the true professional status they deserve.

A guide to the fifteen political operatives who run Obama’s world.

The congressman from Alabama discusses the finer points of the executive-legislative relationship, and why he expects Obama to navigate that relationship better than Clinton did.

A transcript of the Prospect’s interview with Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona.

The U.S. expects other countries to put together a national AIDS plan before they receive funding. But we don’t even have our own national AIDS strategy.

EMILY’s List is one of the largest PACs in the nation and funds only pro-choice, female candidates. But is it still as effective as it once was?