Recently added articles from The American Prospect:

Correspondence.(Letter to the editor)

Jul 01, 2008; Trevino, Joshua ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Following the publication of Mark Schmitt's "Can Identity Politics Save the Right" (June 2008), our Web editors solicited responses to the article from three leading conservative thinkers. The following are excerpts from each response. To read the full ...

From the executive editor.(Correspondence)

Jul 01, 2008; Meyerson, Harold ... HILLARY CLINTON MADE HISTORY OVER THE PAST year--just not quite enough of it to win the Democratic nomination for president. In the wake of her campaign's end, the Prospect looks at what it will take for women to make broader gains within the American political system. Ann Friedman, noting ...

Our CEOs, their foreign agents.(COMMENT)(chief executive officers)

Jul 01, 2008; Prestowitz, Clyde ... IN DECEMBER 2004, IBM ANNOUNCED THE SALE OF ITS personal computer division to China's Lenovo. The announcement came as a surprise in Washington but was old news in Beijing. As IBM Chairman Sam Palmisano later told The New York Times, the deal had originated during his July 2003 trip to ...

Strength in numbers.(women in Congress)

Jul 01, 2008; Friedman, Ann ... In 1992, the much-vaunted "Year of the Woman" when 27 women were elected to Congress, Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland said, "Calling 1992 the Year of the Woman makes it sound like the Year of the Caribou or the Year of the Asparagus. We're not a fad, a fancy, or a year." To a ...

Woman versus machine.

Jul 01, 2008; Meyerson, Harold ... The story is a legend in Chicago politics and machine politics generally. In the middle of the last century, a young University of Chicago student named Abner Mikva--later a leading liberal congressman, then a federal judge, then Bill Clinton's White House counsel, and today an adviser to ...

Follow the money: how shortsighted funding and reimbursement warps mental-health care in America.

Jul 01, 2008; Levine, Art ... It may seem arcane, but the reimbursement and spending priorities of government health agencies can literally have life and death consequences for people with mental illness. Just ask the family of Carolyn Howard, who was bludgeoned to death in 2005 on her front lawn by her adult son ...

Mind reading: technological advances catapult mental health to the forefront of ethics debates.

Jul 01, 2008; Caplan, Arthur L. ... For too long, mental health has been a policy and ethical backwater. While mountains of articles have been written on the ethics of cloning human beings (hugely unlikely to happen anytime soon), the morality of using genetically engineered animals as sources of organs for transplants ...

Pushing parity: Congress is poised to end insurance discrimination against people with mental illnesses.

Jul 01, 2008; Kennedy, Patrick ... During my 14 years in Congress, I've had the opportunity to meet incredible people and hear amazing stories of triumph, heroism, and bravery. While these remarkable stories may grab a headline in the morning's paper or a brief spot on the evening news, it is the so-called "unremarkable" ...

What's needed next: a new federal Office of Mental Health Policy.(THE POLITICS OF MENTAL ILLNESS)

Jul 01, 2008; Frank, Richard G. ... In 1963, President Kennedy challenged the nation to transform the lives of people with mental illnesses. The Kennedy family had first-hand experience with the pain of mental disabilities and their treatments. The president's sister Rosemary experienced long confinements in mental ...