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Issue #19, Winter 2011
Human rights as utopian politics may have failed us, but human rights as catastrophe prevention is the least we must insist on.
Yehudah Mirsky
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Issue #19, Winter 2011
Two historians trace our economic mess and growing inequality to that dismal decade—the 1970s
Jennifer Klein
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Issue #18, Fall 2010
How to spin ancient history to justify modern-day orchestrations of military power.
Jim Sleeper
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Issue #17, Summer 2010
Louis Brandeis—inventor of public-interest law, the right to privacy, and his famous Brief, all before he went to the Supreme Court—is worth a fresh look today.
Michael Waldman
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Issue #17, Summer 2010
How our misreading of history harms progressivism today.
Michael Tomasky
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Issue #16, Spring 2010
The neoconservatives turned Woodrow Wilson into something he was not. In truth, Obama is more like him than Bush ever was.
Trygve Throntveit
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Issue #14, Fall 2009
Claiming the future means embracing the full complications of the past.
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
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Issue #13, Summer 2009
Why modern-day Captain Hooks respond to the invisible hand.
Jonathan Stevenson
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Issue #13, Summer 2009
For those worried about the Roberts Court: History shows that conservative Supreme Courts are surprisingly accommodating to liberal agendas.
Eric Lane and Aziz Huq
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Issue #13, Summer 2009
Civil rights history does not divide neatly into pre-1968 light and post-1968 darkness. A response to Richard Kahlenberg.
Tom Sugrue
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Issue #13, Summer 2009
The twentieth anniversary of the fall of communism serves as a reminder that liberalism makes the right kind of “regime change” possible.
Michael Tomasky
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Issue #13, Summer 2009
Sarah Palin isn’t the future of the Republican Party. But Charles Murray just might be.
Jonathan Rauch
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Issue #12, Spring 2009
Why Barack Obama shouldn’t listen to Tom Sugrue.
Richard Kahlenberg
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Issue #10, Fall 2008
To thrive in a twenty-first century economy, America needs a new physical and financial infrastructure.
Michael Lind
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Issue #10, Fall 2008
It’s time to acknowledge that foreign policy is fair game in presidential politics.
Andrei Cherny
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Issue #8, Spring 2008
The promise and peril of the isolationist strain in American Conservatism.
Michael Tomasky
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Issue #7, Winter 2008
The civil rights movement wasn’t just about racial equality. It was about expanding American democracy.
Peniel Joseph
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Issue #7, Winter 2008
Why FDR’s bottom-up brand of civic defense should inspire progressive plans for homeland security today.
Matthew Dallek
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Issue #7, Winter 2008
Thirty-five years later, what the 1972 campaign can—and can’t—teach liberals today.
Rick Perlstein
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Issue #7, Winter 2008
The history of the Vietnam War teaches that to preserve American strength and prestige, we must begin withdrawing from Iraq now.
Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson
