Recently added articles from The American Prospect:
Faster, please.(PROSPECTS)(economic policies)
Dec 01, 2009; ... The continuing rise in the unemployment rate, up to 10.2 percent in November, has to give a sense of urgency to Democrats in Congress and the administration about the work they have at hand before next fall's elections. In 2010 Republicans are looking to repeat the success they had in 1994 ...
Buying health reform.(NOTED)(Letter to the editor)
Dec 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From San Diego, blogger MIKE TIDMUS gives a shout-out to SARAH LASKOW'S piece ("Let's Make a Deal!") highlighting the various lobbyists who shelled out big ...
Liberal education.(NOTED)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2009 ... Reader KEITH KROLL, a teacher, laments that November's special report ("Inequality Goes to College') neglected to address the role of education in forging an informed citizenry. He writes, "I appreciate the Prospect's special report on higher education. It was disheartening, however, that ...
Decent millennium.(NOTED)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2009 ... JEZEBEL'S ANNA NORTH is skeptical of MARK SCHMITT's claim (in "Title IX Dad") that Title IX--and the gender equality it required--fostered a generation of more humane thinkers. She writes, "There's plenty of evidence that millennials still have some work to do in creating a culture of ...
Indelible lines.(NOTED)(racial inequality)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2009 ... In response to ADAM SERWER'S review of RICHARD ALBA'S Blurring the Color Line, the author writes in to clarify that, unfortunately, erasing it altogether is an unrealistic goal. "I cannot imagine any plausible process that would, in the next several decades, lead to the disappearance of ...