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The War's End
Matthew Yglesias
The Obama administration's policy of disengagement has succeeded as spectacularly as the Bush administration's policy of invasion failed.
U.S. Army soldiers outside an Iraqi police station during a joint operation with Iraqi security forces, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010.
(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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The Era of Data-Driven Education
Gabriel Arana
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.
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Anti-intellectualism rears its head.
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Returning to the War at Home
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The Cost of Delayed Reform
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The temporary federal high-risk pools won't reach most of the medically uninsured.
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Homegrown Mujahideen
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It's tempting to demonize conservatives with hyperbolic comparisons, but liberals have an obligation to the truth. The cover of American Taliban
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Defending a Constitution Under Attack
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The Joke's on Us?
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Our current political leadership just isn't all that funny.
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The End of Palin as Kingmaker
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A Tale of Three Presidencies
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Fresh Battles Over Overseas Donations in Israel
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The first step is admitting you need (government) help.
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The Forever Culture War
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Even as we make progress on specific issues, the broader culture war seems to get uglier and uglier.
The American City
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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
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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 
