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The Change Game

September 2, 2010
Obama's election showed how much the country has changed; his governing has shown how much it hasn't.

The Hands That Feed Us

September 2, 2010
Some of the worst abuses are in food-processing and farming work -- where government is a huge purchaser.

Will the Right's Coalition Hold?

September 7, 2010 | web only
Like all raucous celebrations, the Tea Party will eventually wind down, the rising sun sending the stragglers shuffling back home.

Care for the Caregivers

September 2, 2010
Child-care providers have long been thought of as full-time baby sitters. Government can make them well-paid professionals.

Sweatshop Army

September 2, 2010
Why does the Pentagon use low-road companies to feed and clothe our troops?


The Power to Act

September 2, 2010
There is well-established legal authority for much stronger presidential action to promote good jobs.


The Long Shock

The Long Shock

September 8, 2010 | web only

This recession ain't over until ... never?

(Flickr/Damon Duncan)



Holding Wal-Mart Accountable
September 6, 2010

The road to unionized Wal-Mart runs through obscure towns where workers are abused in hidden warehouses.

A Long Haul
September 6, 2010

How the government's policy to modernize trucks collides with its policies to promote high-wage jobs

The Case for Presidential Action
September 3, 2010

There is a lot the administration can do without legislation.

The Path to a High-Wage Society
September 3, 2010

The explosion of low-wage jobs is due, for the most part, to the declining bargaining power of America's employees.

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TAP Talks To Rep. Earl Blumenauer

September 3, 2010 | web only
The Oregon progressive thinks it's time to cut the budget. Wait, what?


The Era of Data-Driven Education

September 2, 2010 | web only
No Child Left Behind has given us a lot of hard numbers -- but we still don't know what they're telling us about educational outcomes.

The War's End

September 2, 2010 | web only
Obama's policy of disengagement succeeded as spectacularly as Bush's policy of invasion failed.

Homegrown Mujahideen

September 1, 2010 | web only
It's tempting to demonize conservatives with hyperbolic comparisons, but liberals have an obligation to the truth.

Returning to the War at Home

September 1, 2010 | web only
Last night's speech may have felt like an inconclusive end to the war, but it marks a shift in Obama's focus to economic policy.




They're With Stupid

August 31, 2010 | web only
Anti-intellectualism rears its head.

Is This the Road to Israeli-Palestinian Peace?

August 31, 2010 | web only
Middle East peace talks resume in Washington on Thursday, but conditions on the ground belie optimism.

The Cost of Delayed Reform

August 27, 2010
The temporary federal high-risk pools won't reach most of the medically uninsured.

Defending a Constitution Under Attack

August 27, 2010 | web only
Shahid Buttar, a civil-rights lawyer and executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, talks about recent constitutional flare-ups.

Build More Mosques

August 26, 2010 | web only
Integration has always been the American body politic's best antibody against the virus of radical political ideology.




The Forever Culture War

Even as we make progress on specific issues, the broader culture war seems to get uglier and uglier.

The American City

Ragtime -- and innovative tableau of real and fictional events in the early 20th century -- legitimized the idea that the self-interested act and can have an impact.

Homegrown Mujahideen
| web only
It's tempting to demonize conservatives with hyperbolic comparisons, but liberals have an obligation to the truth.

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