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Sugar High

March 11, 2010 | web only
New York's latest food campaign would impose a tax on the syrup added to soda and sweetened drinks.

Durbin's Bid to End Sentencing Disparity

March 11, 2010 | web only
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider Sen. Dick Durbin's proposal to eliminate the 20-year-old sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.

The Opt-Out Compromise

March 9, 2010 | web only
How to let individuals out of the insurance mandate and improve the odds of health-care reform.

A Fresh Take on the Jewish Faith

March 12, 2010 | web only
A new community of American Judaism is embracing religious traditionalism and social liberalism.

The Long Fight for Labor

March 10, 2010 | web only
Why is Barack Obama having such a difficult time undoing Bush-era damage to the Department of Labor?

A Path to Peace

March 10, 2010
It's time to take America's Middle East policy off autopilot and change our approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

No Need to Sacrifice

No Need to Sacrifice

March 11, 2010

American foreign policy has never been independent of politics, but in recent years, politics has come first.

Former President George W. Bush on Friday, Dec. 26, 2008 at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Post Romantic
March 9, 2010 | web only

Despite its current financial woes, the Postal Service is still the best mail delivery service around -- and one of the government's bigger successes.

Daddy Issues
March 8, 2010

From our April issue:
Obama is putting action behind years of talk about fatherhood and poverty.

A Challenge to American Women
March 8, 2010 | web only

We have a moral obligation to focus on international women's uplift, but we must also act locally.

The Case Against the Case Against Rahm
March 8, 2010 | web only

Conservative Democrats are not his invention.

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The Curated Web

March 5, 2010
Tumblr, a relatively new blogging platform, just might be the future of the social Internet.

The Fake Weed Fight

March 5, 2010 | web only
TAP talks to a former police chief who thinks drugs should be legal about new efforts to ban a pot substitute.

Gay? Check Yes or No

March 4, 2010 | web only
Penn just announced they would use admissions data about sexual orientation to recruit gay students. But does that really open the door for true diversity?

The Rahm Problem

March 4, 2010 | web only
The latest drama over the White House's chief of staff and its record on national security is much ado about nothing.

Bunning for Senate Reform

March 3, 2010 | web only
Well, not exactly. But the Kentucky senator might prove that the filibuster has made fools of us all.



Obama, Congress Wink at Massive Surveillance Abuses

March 3, 2010 | web only
This week's reauthorization of the Patriot Act comes on the heels of the revelation Obama's Office of Legal Counsel granted fresh retroactive immunity for Bush-era telecommunication lawbreaking.

The New McCarthyism

March 3, 2010 | web only
How a smearing of Justice Department lawyers as "terrorist sympathizers" traveled from the conservative media to the United States Senate.

The Recruits

March 2, 2010
Al-Qaeda knows how to appeal to young Western Muslims, but the United States still has a lot to learn.

Political Malpractice

March 2, 2010 | web only
Contrary to Republican arguments, tort reform is no health-care cure-all. So why are Democrats seriously considering it?

Citizens Restarted

March 1, 2010
The Citizens United ruling may bring a new day in the effort to separate economic inequality from democracy.

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Monica  Potts Monica Potts is associate editor for the Prospect. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Connecticut Post and the Stamford Advocate. She also blogs at PostBourgie.

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The Great School Delusion

An education reformer discovers that tests, standards, and other silver bullets are no substitute for hard teaching.

No Need to Sacrifice

American foreign policy has never been independent of politics, but in recent years, politics has come first.

Former President George W. Bush on Friday, Dec. 26, 2008 at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Let's Be Rational About Sex
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Opponents of gay rights have long relied on disgust to justify discrimination. Recent legal gains suggest this argument is losing its potency.

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