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What Will the Next Republican Coalition Look Like?
Paul Waldman
January 6, 2009 | web only
Forty years ago, "the unpoor, the unblack, and the unyoung" provided a comfortable majority for Republicans, but no longer.
Related: Mark Schmitt asks if identity politics can save the Right.
Former Tennessee GOP Chairman Chip Saltsman announces his bid for chairmanship of the Republican National Party. (AP Photo)
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An Ounce of Prevention?
M. Gregg Bloche
January 6, 2009 | web only
The standard story is that prevention saves health-care dollars. But if we're to get better at averting illness, we're going to have to spend more.
Can Partisanship Save Citizenship?
Henry Farrell
December 31, 2008
In the 1990s, reformers and academics worried about how to improve civic life. They didn't foresee that technology combined with party politics would renew civic engagement.
Getting Ahead of Congress
Dana Goldstein
December 30, 2008
The president must begin reaching out to Congress to build support on key social issues right away.
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Deadly Medicine for Youth Violence
Courtney E. Martin
January 6, 2009 | web only
New efforts at dating-violence prevention are based on the same old gender stereotypes. No wonder they're not working.
Behind Fortune's Smile
Dalton Conley
January 2, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell's latest mixes some insights from social science with some compelling anecdotes. Unfortunately, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
The Competence Dodge
Robert Kuttner
December 29, 2008
Liberals should not allow themselves to believe that the experience and competence of Obama's economic team are substitutes for true progressivism.
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How Bush Broke the Government
Tara McKelvey, Te-Ping Chen, Meredith Kolodner, Esther Kaplan, Carolyn Petri, Sheila Kaplan, LaNitra Walker, Alyssa Rosenberg, Ann Friedman and Emily Douglas
January 5, 2009
To gain a true sense of Bush's legacy, we survey the systematic and politically motivated ways he undermined the federal government.
Above: (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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A Really Long Heat Wave
December 26, 2008
Chris Mooney
Popular writers and scientists alike are trying to help readers understand climate change, but doing so requires new thinking about the scale of time.
I Love Christmas Music
December 24, 2008 | web only
Ezra Klein
Yes, I'm Jewish, and no, the love is not ironic. Christmas music is about winter, and nostalgia. It's an aural blanket, a cup of sonic cocoa on a cold day.
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Obama's Economic Opportunity
December 23, 2008
Robert Kuttner
The dismal state of the economy presents Obama with the chance not just to produce a recovery but to restore a more egalitarian society -- and a progressive majority.
The Public Option and the Hope of Health Care Reform
December 23, 2008 | web only
Paul Waldman
Democrats' discussion of health care reform points to just how much the debate over health care reform has moved forward.
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The Rebel Prince
Gershom Gorenberg
December 23, 2008 | web only
Benjamin Netanyahu is the front-runner in Israel's election. Will voters notice that a radical rightist has hijacked Netanyahu's Likud party?
America's New Year's Resolution: A Return to Integrity
Courtney E. Martin
December 22, 2008 | web only
As we prepare to usher in a new year and a new administration, let's all pledge to rediscover our moral way in this country.
Will Environmental Justice Finally Get Its Due?
Brentin Mock
December 22, 2008 | web only
Obama's environment, energy, and urban affairs appointees are poised to enact policies that environmental justice activists have long been pushing for.
Learning From the New Deal's Mistakes
Eric Rauchway
December 22, 2008 | web only
The New Deal was, for the most part, phenomenally successful, but there are many ways it could have gone further or been better organized -- failings it is critical we avoid this time around.
Blaming History
Michael Tomasky
December 19, 2008
In a new feature, Prospect writers discuss the book that changed their view of politics:
Michael Tomasky on Milan Kundera's The Joke and the need for comic relief in political discourse.
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Negotiating Duty
Sudhir Muralidhar
December 19, 2008 | web only
Nothing But the Truth, the new fictionalized film about the Judith Miller scandal, leaves out nuance in favor of neat drama.
No Education Silver Bullet
Dana Goldstein
December 18, 2008 | web only
In the United States, the education debate has been framed as a zero-sum game. But a look at Finland, whose schools rank No. 1 in global surveys, shows that a national commitment to education can neutralize political debates over school reform.
How Bush Failed Somalia
Matthew Yglesias
December 18, 2008 | web only
Two years ago the United States intervened in East African politics in a way that has created the pirate problem and is breeding a new generation of anti-American jihadists.
The Great Persuader
Tim Fernholz
December 18, 2008 | web only
Obama's recently announced HUD secretary, Shaun Donovan, has an impressive record of bringing stakeholders together to create affordable housing, but can he reform HUD's moribund bureaucracy?
A Tame Regulator for the SEC
Robert Kuttner
December 18, 2008 | web only
Appointing a safe, Wall Street favorite like Mary Schapiro to chair the SEC does not augur well for Obama's pledge to get at the roots of the financial crisis.
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Adele M. Stan writes regularly about religion and politics for TAP Online. She has also written on religion for Ms., Mother Jones, and The New Republic, and is the author of the blog AddieStan.
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I Love Christmas Music
Ezra Klein | web only
Yes, I'm Jewish, and no, the love is not ironic. Christmas music is about winter, and nostalgia. It's an aural blanket, a cup of sonic cocoa on a cold day.
Negotiating Duty
Sudhir Muralidhar | web only
Nothing But the Truth, the new fictionalized film about the Judith Miller scandal, leaves out nuance in favor of neat drama.
Art in the Age of Obama
Sharon L. Butler 
A new era may be dawning in which artists, strongly supported by the president, will transcend starry-eyed campaign pictures and develop new forms of enduring art.
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