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America's Trade Policy of the Absurd

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

American Prospect - By Jeff Faux - Feb. 08 (Opinion) - Saving middle-class America will require a radically different conception of trade and the national interest.

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Giffords Shooting Is Evidence of Conservative Policy Failures, Too

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

American Prospect - By Pema Levy - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - Since Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords, Republicans have united behind the idea that this was an isolated act by a crazy person. They argue that because Loughner was mentally unstable, their political rhetoric, often filled with guns and other violent intimations, is not to blame. Loughner probably was a mentally ill person with no coherent political agenda, but that's actually a good indictment of the conservative policy failures that allowed the shooting to take place.

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Paladino Meltdown Watch

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Adam Serwer - Oct. 08 (News Analysis) - Is anyone else aware of a political ad in which a candidate references his opponent's talents in the sack? That's a sure-fire way to convince the New York electorate that sending around bestiality videos to his friends isn't indicative of Paladino's character as a person.

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Forbes Embraces Birtherism Lite.

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Adam Serwer - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - For whatever reason, elements of the right have chosen not to evaluate Barack Obama based on his actions or his policies but through the kind of postmodern literary interpretation that wouldn't make it through the vetting process of a freshman bong circle at Wesleyan. In these retellings of Obama's personal history, the president's life is an epic, Marxist, sinister version of a Joseph Campbell-style heroic journey, with its hero ultimately falling, like Anakin Skywalker, to the dark side of the force.

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The Impending Democratic Bloodbath.

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Adam Serwer - Sep. 01 (Comment) - According to Gallup, this Republican lead is greater than any previous midterm advantage in Gallup's 60-year history of tracking the generic ballot. Barring a miracle, Republicans are very likely to win the House in November, and there's a good chance they'll pick up the Senate, too. In addition to driving President Obama's agenda to the right, GOP gains virtually guarantee a scandal-ridden 112th Congress.

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The New Culture War

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Adam Serwer - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - When Andrew Sullivan first wrote "Goodbye to All That," believing that the candidacy of Barack Obama could be the beginning of a "truce" in the culture war, he was largely placing the blame on the narcissism of the baby-boomers. The culture war as Sullivan was writing about it is largely over, (not to dispute the ongoing salience of abortion rights or marriage equality) but as Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin write today, a different kind of culture war has taken its place, one over what it means to be an American.

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The Senate Kills International Relations.

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Tim Fernholz - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - A situation where it is impossible for the United States to enter into formally binding international agreements is one where the president has one hand tied behind his back anytime he seeks to engage with another country, friend or foe -- how can any president assert U.S. leadership abroad if world leaders realize that there is no way his political opponents at home will allow him or her to make a deal? While the president's unfettered authority to act destructively in foreign affairs merits a rethinking of the executive's legal authorities, the reverse situation -- the inability of the president to act constructively abroad -- is just as worrisome.

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Terrorists Versus Soccer

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Adam Serwer - Jun. 18 (Opinion) - International soccer interferes with the extremist vision of a fundamentalist society free of secular influences in a number of ways -- most notably by cultivating a secular, national identity separate from the religious one. It showcases peaceful interaction not only between rival, even hostile nations, but between Muslims and non-Muslims, undermining the narrative of an inevitable clash of civilizations between Islam and the West. This isn't to say that soccer is necessarily a liberalizing force -- Mussolini's Italy did win the last World Cup before World War II. But the world's love for soccer offers a particularly difficult challenge for the pan-Islamist extremist ideology of groups like al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam.

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Politicizing Miranda

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Adam Serwer - May. 21 (Opinion) - Modifying who has the right to a Miranda warning is a political solution to a national security problem that doesn't exist.

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Farewell, Facebook

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Laura Mcgann - May. 11 (Opinion) - Why one super-connected internet enthusiast decided it was time to pull the plug.

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The Virtual University

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Anya Kamenetz - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - The higher-education system has a lot in common with another great challenge our country is confronting: health care. Colleges, like hospitals, have little incentive to conserve resources or compete on price. They can actually gain prestige by raising tuition. They shift costs to students to make up for gaps in state funding and then hand out grant money to the applicants they want the most, not the ones who need the most help. Community colleges dedicated to serving the poorest get a fraction of the public money that goes to flagship state universities.

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The Library of Congress Is Now Following You on Twitter

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - Apr. 17 (Interview) - TAP talks with the Library about why they're archiving tweets, if you can opt out, and who gets to be the Twitter Librarian.

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Authority in the Internet Age

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Nancy Scola - Apr. 08 (Opinion) - A DC Circuit Court Decision has called into question the FCC's ability to regulate the Internet.

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More Than Green

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Justin Charity - Mar. 27 (Interview) - Cities are making efforts at the local level to become more sustainable. Are national policies in place to help them?

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The Academy of Debt

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Rebecca Delaney - Mar. 19 (Interview) - Everyone's focused on health care, but a critical student loan reform effort might pass through budget reconciliation soon, too.

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The Feminist Case for Flawed Reform

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Michelle Goldberg - Mar. 18 (Opinion) - The anti-abortion provisions of both the House and the Senate versions of health care are a serious setback for reproductive rights. We need to support it nonetheless.

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The New McCarthyism

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

American Prospect - By Adam Serwer - Mar. 04 (News Analysis) - How a smearing of Justice Department lawyers as "terrorist sympathizers" traveled from the conservative media to the United States Senate.

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Free Speech and Funding in Israel

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

American Prospect - By Gershom Gorenberg - Feb. 13 (Special Report) - Attacks against a major left Israeli philanthropic organization are symptomatic of the complex role foreign money plays in political debates.

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Eric Holder's War

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

American Prospect - By Dayo Olopade - Feb. 09 (Special Report) - For the attorney general, remaking the rule of law in a new century is as personal as it is professional.

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Don't Judge the Budget by Its Cover

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

American Prospect - By Tim Fernholz - Feb. 03 (Opinion) - This is Obama's opportunity to teach responsible economic policy to the American people -- heck, to teach responsible economic policy to the American Congress. No, it's not an easy lift, and it may not bear political fruit right away, but Obama's mandate is to advocate for greater progressive investment now, smarter deficit reduction in the midterm, and a health-care reform bill that would create jobs and reduce the deficit over the long term. Instead of articulating these goals, Obama is telling Americans that a spending freeze that exempts the bloated defense budget will fix the deficit problem. And when the labor market doesn't improve and deficits remain high, it's unclear what the political benefits will be, especially with conservatives happy to attack whatever proposals the administration offers. (Republicans sat on their hands during the State of the Union when the president called for small-business tax cuts!) Without short-term results or an argument to differentiate Obama's approach from what Republicans are offering, the benefits of the administration's strategy are not apparent. The risks, however, are unambiguous.

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What Happened to Democracy?

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

American Prospect - By Robert B. Reich - Feb. 02 (Opinion) - Which programs should be cut, which entitlements pared back, and which taxes raised in order to reduce the long-term budget deficit? Hmmm. Let's convene a commission and have it decide. At least this is what several members of Congress and the Obama White House are proposing.

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As the World Turns

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

American Prospect - By Matthew Yglesias - Dec. 27 (News Analysis) - The basic story of the contemporary United States involves the slightly awkward combination of unmatched power and inevitable relative decline. Our economy can't grow as fast as India's or China's or Brazil's, and there's no equivalent to the EU integration process that could enhance our power and expand our reach. The only real uncertainty about relative decline concerns the extent to which those powers will be joined by other potential regional powerhouses like Nigeria, Iran, South Africa, and Indonesia, if they ever get their acts together in terms of sustained economic growth.

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Is It Time for Malpractice Reform?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

American Prospect - By Joanne Kenen - Nov. 20 (News Analysis) - Year after year, Republicans try to pass legislation that would limit medical malpractice awards. Fix the tort system, they argue, and we fix rising health-care costs. And year after year, Democrats resist placing arbitrary caps on awards to people who may have suffered from an egregious medical error. The fight plays out like a predictable old Western -- good guys versus bad guys. Depending on your politics, the villain is either the greedy doctor or the greedy trial lawyer.

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Can California Be Fixed?

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Pema Levy - Sep. 27 (Interview) - In the coming weeks, the coalition Repair California will begin the official process of calling a state constitutional convention, submitting ballot-initiative language to Attorney General Jerry Brown's office. Repair California proposes to restructure government through a state constitutional convention. The Prospect talked to John Grubb, official spokesperson for Repair California, about the crisis in California and the emerging movement to reform government.

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Meet The New State Secrets Policy, Not So Different From The Old State Secrets Policy

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Adam Serwer - Sep. 23 (News Analysis) - 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.

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