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By The American Prospect Staff
Cover Story - Features
The Militarist
Matthew Yglesias
Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain may protest that he hates war, but no American leader has promoted it more avidly. McCain is not only the most hawkish neocon on the horizon; he genuinely sees war as America's most ennobling enterprise.
Features
Bubble and Bail
Kevin Phillips
For most of the 20th century, America manufactured things. For the past 30 years, though, it has chiefly manufactured debt. Wall Street, with the aid of both political parties, gravely damaged the economy.
Good Jobs for Americans Who Help Americans
Robert Kuttner
Human services is the fastest-growing labor market. Here's how to restore middle-class earnings by making every human-service job a good job.
How We Got Into This Mess
Damon Silvers 
Trade, the war on unions, and underfunded schools all lowered wages. Cheap credit propped us up -- but now the debt is due. Herewith, a national economic strategy to turn America around.
The Green Gap
Kate Sheppard
As the number of green-collar jobs rises, pioneering activists are working to ensure that many of those jobs go to inner-city residents.
Special Report
Borrowing Ill Health
Tamara Draut
Hospitals are getting more aggressive about sending debt collectors after under-insured consumers.
Health Reform You Shouldn't Believe In
Marcia Angell
What the Massachusetts experiment teaches us about incremental efforts to increase coverage by expanding private insurance.
Lessons From California
Anthony Wright
The Schwarzenegger plan was a near miss, but well worth the trouble. The stage is set for the next effort.
The Primacy of Prevention
Neal Halfon
Addressing the whole range of behaviors that affect health is the key to a healthier society. This requires a universal health care system.
What Path to Universal Coverage?
Robert Kuttner
The next administration will expand health coverage. Will they fix what is broken -- or just inflate costs?
What Really Ails Medicare
Jonathan Cohn
The cost crisis of Medicare gets a lot of attention. The program can be fixed only by universalizing the larger health system in which Medicare resides.
Why Not Connecticut?
Marc Caplan
A model grassroots organizing campaign mobilizes public opinion for universal coverage in a state long dominated by private insurers.
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Columns
Business as Usury
Thomas Geoghegan
Before Congress goes after bank misdeeds on Wall Street, let's stop the petty theft on Main Street -- predatory mortgages and usurious loans. Had we protected the poor and the weak, the problems of our mighty banks might not be so great.
Listening to Iraq
Ann Friedman
The news coverage of the Iraq War almost always ignores the daily lives of ordinary Iraqis. Seeking out those personal stories could help us understand the war's human cost.
Lullaby of Baghdad
Paul Starr
Are we winning the Iraq war, or is what little progress we have achieved actually an illusion?
Maverick or Manueverer?
Mark Schmitt
John McCain has enjoyed a reputation for "authenticity" because of his commitment to "reform." But this reputation is evidence of Washington's sadly twisted standards, not McCain's virtue.
Culture & Books
Multiculture Club
Amanda Marcotte
"Kids these days" belong to the most diverse generation America has ever had. No wonder they like music that blends sounds from all around the world.
Religiously Equal?
Peter Steinfels
In her new book, philosophical titan Martha Nussbaum questions the separation between church and state, arguing that constitutional law has more often derived from prejudice than principle.
Rules of Attack
William Galston
Did September 11 signal the end of liberal internationalism -- the polestar of American foreign policy from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill Clinton -- as the Bush administration claims?
Departments
Correspondence
The Editors
A message from the Executive Editor and readers' responses to articles by Spencer Ackerman, Art Levine, and David Bacon.
Up Front
The Editors
Black Republicans, Dee Dee Myers on gender-based discrimination in the Clinton administration, Perino's absurdities, Norquist says fuel efficiency kills, liberalism as mental illness, and T.A. Frank's parody.
Online Extras
Multiculture Club: Videos
Amanda Marcotte
Watch and listen to some of the artists featured in this month's culture piece.
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