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America's AIDS Apartheid
The domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic is increasingly black and Southern -- and spiraling out of control.
July 8, 2008 | By Kai Wright
The McCain Rules
The press has been, with major exceptions, reasonably kind to Barack Obama. But that's nothing compared with its eagerness to adopt any argument even mentioned by the McCain campaign.
July 8, 2008 | By Paul Waldman | web only
Does EMILY's List Still Matter?
EMILY's List is one of the largest PACs in the nation and funds only pro-choice, female candidates. But is it still as effective as it once was?
July 7, 2008 | By Holly Yeager
Where's Our Domestic AIDS Plan?
The U.S. expects other countries to put together a national AIDS plan before they receive funding. But we don't even have our own national AIDS strategy.
July 7, 2008 | By Andrew Green
Barack's Pilgrimage
The trip that future president Obama needs to take to Israel is not the one that candidate Obama can risk.
July 3, 2008 | By Gershom Gorenberg | web only
The Meltdown Lowdown
(No. 12)
The Times confuses the Stock Market and the economy and worries about a shortage of Europeans while McCain only claims to want to hold economists accountable.
July 3, 2008 | By Dean Baker | web only
Fixing the System Obama Broke
Barack Obama's decision to decline public financing for the general election and his success at small-dollar fundraising show that we need a fundamentally different way of allocating public funds to political candidates.
July 3, 2008 | By Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres | web only
The FundamentaList
(No. 40)
Obama is friendlier with evangelicals than McCain, Huckabee supporters push him as Vice President, and Huckabee says immorality is the cause of big government.
July 2, 2008 | By Sarah Posner | web only
A Limited Health-Care Success in Massachussetts
The Massachusetts health reform plan says much about the pitfalls and promises of reform.
July 2, 2008 | By Ezra Klein | web only
McCain: Noun, Verb, Terrorism
For all John McCain's supposed experience, he has the same absurdly simplistic and factually ignorant understanding of the problem as President Bush.
July 1, 2008 | By Paul Waldman | web only
The Doctors' Revolt
Doctors, the traditional advocates for the medical status quo, are increasingly in favor of major reforms to the U.S. health-care system.
July 1, 2008 | By Roger Bybee | web only
Justice Scalia's Dueling Opinions
Scalia's opinion in the ruling overturning D.C.'s gun ban shows the flaws of his trademark judicial thinking.
June 30, 2008 | By Aziz Huq | web only
Nader's Black and White World
Ralph Nader made news last week by accusing Barack Obama of "talking white." But all he really told us is that he's still trapped in the past.
June 30, 2008 | By Terence Samuel | web only
The Abortion Counseling Conundrum
Pro-choice activists have come to embrace the idea that many women who've had abortions can benefit from non-ideological counseling. So why are the groups that provide such counseling having so much trouble raising money?
June 30, 2008 | By Dana Goldstein | web only
The Celeb Factor in Politics
Hollywood and Washington have always had a lot of connections, but, this election cycle, the nature of celebrity involvement in politics has really changed.
June 27, 2008 | By Courtney E. Martin | web only
Does the Housing Bubble Have to Pop?
Congress is currently debating the Dodd-Frank bill, which would provide relief for struggling homeowners. But does the bill offer the most efficient solution to the housing crisis?
June 27, 2008 | By Dean Baker and Robert Kuttner | web only
The Meltdown Lowdown (No. 11)
Airline CEOs have some odd ideas about customer service, Exxon gets a break from the Supreme Court, and many middle aged families have very little savings.
June 27, 2008 | By Dean Baker | web only
The Torture Taint
Even as they worked out the details of how interrogation techniques widely regarded as torture would be used on detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Pentagon officials sought to keep the blood off Defense Department hands.
June 26, 2008 | By Brian Beutler | web only
Talking to Iran Is Not So Controversial
Don't look now but there is a broad consensus on what the next administration should do about Iran.
June 25, 2008 | By Ilan Goldenberg | web only
The FundamentaList (No. 39)
Latino evangelicals may play a decisive role in future elections, Dobson says Obama has a "fruitcake" interpretation of the Constitution, and culture wars continue in Texas.
June 25, 2008 | By Sarah Posner | web only
Democrats Capitulate on FISA
Democrats are trying to rationalize capitulating on surveillance and telecom immunity in the new FISA bill by calling it a compromise. It isn't.
June 25, 2008 | By Julian Sanchez | web only
The Year of Passion
In this year's primaries, for the first time in many election cycles, Democrats were carried by inspiration, rather than political calculation.
June 24, 2008 | By Paul Starr
Larry Johnson's Strange Trip
How a onetime hero of the liberal blogosphere and the Democratic Party spread perhaps the most damaging anti-Obama smear of the primary.
June 24, 2008 | By David Weigel | web only
Smearing Michelle
Frustrated by their inability to successfully call Barack Obama's character into question, his opponents have seized on the next best option -- attacking his wife.
June 24, 2008 | By Paul Waldman | web only
Beyond Hillary: Strength in Numbers
The Year of the Woman was 16 years ago, and the number of women in elected office has flatlined. Herewith, some ideas on how to build a critical mass of female officeholders.
June 23, 2008 | By Ann Friedman
Beyond Hillary: Woman Versus Machine
Women do best in places where political machines are weak or absent and worst where culture is most traditional.
June 23, 2008 | By Harold Meyerson
Beyond Hillary: By Invitation Only
Prominent women are one-third less likely to be encouraged to run for office than prominent men.
June 23, 2008 | By Ezra Klein
Dodd and the Democrats' Countrywide Problem
The news that Sen. Dodd received a preferential mortgage deal comes right as the Senate gears up to debate a new bill that would bring relief to borrowers.
June 23, 2008 | By Terence Samuel | web only
The Trade Debate We Need
Much of America's economic elite continues to promote an absurdly simplistic theoretical case for the necessity of "free trade." But, as more thoughtful globalizers are starting to admit, the reality is much more complicated.
June 20, 2008 | By Robert Kuttner
Corzine's Choice
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is facing one of the nation's worst budget crunches. Can a man who was elected to clean up a state's financial crisis also enact progressive policies?
June 20, 2008 | By Kate Sheppard | web only
When Love Meets Racism
Lincoln Center's rapturous new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" is a reminder of liberal moral pluck on issues of race and the simplicity of a bygone era's emotions.
June 20, 2008 | By Harold Meyerson | web only
The Meltdown Lowdown
(No. 10)
A Chinese central banker makes some very odd complaints, Wall Street bankers got bonuses for profits that we now know were bogus, and McCain doesn't understand what cap-and-trade means.
June 19, 2008 | By Dean Baker | web only
A New Legal Challenge to Israeli Settlements
In a pioneering court case, Israeli human rights activists are asking the Supreme Court to grant an order to demolish homes being built on Palestinian land in the West Bank.
June 19, 2008 | By Gershom Gorenberg | web only
The FundamentaList
(No. 38)
The Southern Baptist Convention returns to politics, Obama secretly meets with evangelical leaders, and why Huckabee is a threat to the Southern Baptists.
June 18, 2008 | By Sarah Posner | web only
Will This Man Fix American Health Care?
Can Max Baucus and the Senate Finance Committee finally reform health care? Monday's "Prepare for Launch" event was their attempt to convince us to let them try.
June 18, 2008 | By Ezra Klein | web only
"If the Detainee Dies, You're Doing it Wrong"
We have known for a long time that Donald Rumsfeld approved the use of 15 torture techniques in 2002, but a new congressional hearing exposes the depth of opposition he faced from the military.
June 18, 2008 | By Brian Beutler | web only
McCain's Desperate Debate Gambit
John McCain knows his campaign is in trouble, and so he's trying to pressure Barack Obama into a long series of town hall meetings. But speeches are the real way the president appeals to the public.
June 17, 2008 | By Paul Waldman | web only
Feminist Groups Prepare to Back Obama
Are angry feminists defecting en masse to the McCain campaign? Far from it. Behind the scenes, many women's organizations are preparing to fight for an Obama victory in November.
June 17, 2008 | By Dana Goldstein | web only
Beyond Boumediene
The Supreme Court's decision in the most recent enemy combatant case was a reminder that Roe v. Wade is far from the only area of law in which treasured constitutional protections are hanging by a thread.
June 16, 2008 | By Scott Lemieux | web only
Bush's Misplaced Regrets
George Bush says he regrets that his rhetoric did not make him sound like a "man of peace." But his actions, not his rhetoric are what destroyed his party and his legacy.
June 16, 2008 | By Terence Samuel | web only
This Old Medium
The new museum of journalism only serves to highlight how the industry has failed to fully adapt to the digital age.
June 13, 2008 | By Anabel Lee
The Friendship Offensive
Peace activists on Capitol Hill hope to stave off war with Iran through cross-cultural contact between ordinary citizens. Leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus show their support.
June 13, 2008 | By Brian Beutler | web only
Where Has All the Water Gone?
From our June special report: The world's water crisis poses grave threats to our survival. Can we change course?
June 12, 2008 | By Maude Barlow
The Meltdown Lowdown
(No. 9)
The average homeowner owes more and more, why renters are the ones accumulating wealth, and why we shouldn't want a strong dollar.
June 12, 2008 | By Dean Baker | web only
Wrecking the L.A. Times
Sam Zell is doing his best to wreck The Los Angeles Times. Newspapers' problems can't be fixed by indiscriminate cuts or measuring reporters' output by the number of column inches they produce.
June 12, 2008 | By Harold Meyerson | web only
Close of an Era
Several new books on the rise and fall of conservatism look at the secrets of the movement's decades-old success -- and modern-day failures.
June 11, 2008 | By Sean Wilentz
The FundamentaList
(No. 37)
McCain's problems with evangelicals are exaggerated but real, polls show Obama could win the votes of some moderate evangelicals, and a prominent evangelical defends Hagee.
June 11, 2008 | By Sarah Posner | web only
Battle of the Budget Slideshows
Budget hawks are trying to convince the public that we face an unavoidable choice between cutting social programs and budgetary Armageddon. But in reality, our budgetary problems stem from our out-of-control health care system.
June 10, 2008 | By Mark Schmitt
In Iran, Things Can Always Get Worse
American neoconservatives have consistently downplayed differences among Iranian leaders and, as a consequence, ignored the impact their own words have on Iranian politics.
June 10, 2008 | By Justin Logan | web only
The Soft Art
Obama's defining political skill may prove to be his ability to parry attacks and turn them to his advantage. It kept his campaign moving forward and upward when others would have found themselves unable to go on.
June 10, 2008 | By Paul Waldman | web only
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