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An Eye on Aid
Justin Charity
Does greater access to data on foreign aid translate into more accountability? TAP talks with a group that advocates for increased transparency about what it could mean.
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The Great School Delusion
David L. Kirp
An education reformer discovers that tests, standards, and other silver bullets are no substitute for hard teaching.
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Sugar High
Monica Potts
New York's latest food campaign would impose a tax on the syrup added to soda and sweetened drinks.
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Sugar High
Monica Potts
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
Adam Serwer
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
Paul Starr
March 9, 2010 | web only
How to let individuals out of the insurance mandate and improve the odds of health-care reform.
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A Fresh Take on the Jewish Faith
Gershom Gorenberg
March 12, 2010 | web only
A new community of American Judaism is embracing religious traditionalism and social liberalism.
The Long Fight for Labor
Jake Blumgart
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
Daniel Levy and Amjad Atallah
March 10, 2010
It's time to take America's Middle East policy off autopilot and change our approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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No Need to Sacrifice
Matthew Yglesias
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)
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Post Romantic
March 9, 2010 | web only
Paul Waldman
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
Monica Potts
From our April issue: Obama is putting action behind years of talk about fatherhood and poverty.
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The Curated Web
Marisa Meltzer
March 5, 2010
Tumblr, a relatively new blogging platform, just might be the future of the social Internet.
The Fake Weed Fight
Rebecca Delaney
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
Gabriel Arana
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
Matthew Yglesias
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
Tim Fernholz
March 3, 2010 | web only
Well, not exactly. But the Kentucky senator might prove that the filibuster has made fools of us all.
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Obama, Congress Wink at Massive Surveillance Abuses
Julian Sanchez
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
Adam Serwer
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
Adam Serwer
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
Paul Waldman
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
Mark Schmitt
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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The Great School Delusion
David L. Kirp
An education reformer discovers that tests, standards, and other silver bullets are no substitute for hard teaching.
No Need to Sacrifice
Matthew Yglesias
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
Gabriel Arana 
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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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 
