American Prospect
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The American Prospect is a monthly magazine "of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics"[1] which focuses on U.S. politics and public policy. Roughly speaking, its politics are to the left of The New Republic and to the right of The Nation. The magazine was founded in 1990 by Robert Kuttner, Robert Reich, and Paul Starr as a response to the intellectual ascendancy of conservatism in the 1980s. Originally it published quarterly, then bimonthly. In 2000, thanks to a grant from the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, it became ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Ezra Fox
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What will health reform mean for reproductive rights?
As the House and Senate produce and mark-up various health reform plans, reproductive health care is emerging -- surprise, surprise -- as a political football. Both the House ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The Other Black President
Jealous is part community organizer, part savvy financial operator, and part tech geek. In less than a year as president, he has made converts out of his critics both within ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Getting Real on Climate Change
Obama faces the deepest recession the United States has seen in decades, a failing health system, and a crumbling infrastructure. His top priority will be to get the U.S. ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Coming Conservative Crack-up
Bumping abortion and other social issues to the top of the Republican agenda isn't how things are supposed to work -- those issues are supposed to be the opiate for the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Rachel Maddow: Political Game Changer
Maddow has broken the broadcasting mold. She has succeeded as an avowed liberal on television precisely because she is not a liberal version of conservatives like Sean Hannity ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The Demise of the Washington News Bureau
The most valuable traditional D.C. journalism is the daily and weekly coverage of Congress by reporters who know individual members and their staffs, go to hearings, and ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Conservative Case for Urbanism
Policies in favor of dense development shouldn't be viewed on a left-right spectrum and certainly needn't be filtered through culture-war rhetoric, the panelists said. In ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
John Kerry, Foreign Policy Warrior
It sounds like a strange thing to say about a political attack speech, but last night Kerry showed the moral courage that made him famous in the first place. Freed from the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
McCain: Noun, Verb, Terrorism
McCain continues to embody Bush's worst impulses on terrorism, not least his stubborn refusal to grasp even the most basic facts about terrorist organizations. So let's ask: ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Can Identity Politics Save the Right?
The recent resurgence of the British Conservative Party is a reminder that even after a decade of futility, a new leader, a vision, and impatience with the incumbent party can ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Can California Be Fixed?
In the coming weeks, the coalition Repair California will begin the official process of calling a state constitutional convention, submitting ballot-initiative language to ...via NewsRack -
Meet The New State Secrets Policy, Not So Different From The Old State Secrets Policy
The Obama administration's abuse of the state secrets privilege mirrors the Bush administration's, and that's despite months of promises to reform its use.via Fair Spin -
Health Care's True Price | The American Prospect
Health-care wonks worth their salt will tell you that the big issue in the current effort to reform our abysmal health-care system is cost control. They say if we don't do ...Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV -
Delivering Affordable Health Care
State licensing fights may be the first step for these midwives, but it's not their last. Now they're turning their attention to the federal health-care reform debate, and a ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
An Uncertain Fate for Voting Rights
Yesterday the Supreme Court wrote a cliffhanger of an opinion on the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most powerful weapons in the ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Wealth-Care Reform
he disease still haunts his life, however: In particular, it haunts his finances. Health insurance consumes 40 percent of the family's income. They have no retirement savings. ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
WHAT TO MAKE OF PAYGO?
What's the actual impact of making these congressional rules in to law? Since both rules have emergency waivers (designed for situations, like the current recession, where ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Regulation and Credit Industry Blackmail
Get ready. Every time the government threatens to regulate any kind of industry in the financial sector, whether the big banks, mortgage lenders, or, in today's case, credit ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Is the Threat of Homegrown Extremism Real?
Last week's leaked DHS report has some asking if we need to train a closer eye on fringe political groups. But we shouldn't overlook the potential for abuse with government ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Beat the Press
The standard housing series show that house prices must fall another 15-20 percent in real terms to return to their trend levels.Posted by Mike Ryan
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