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Durbin's Bid to End Sentencing Disparity
Adam Serwer
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider Sen. Dick Durbin's proposal to eliminate the 20-year-old sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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Sugar High
Monica Potts
New York's latest food campaign would impose a tax on the syrup added to soda and sweetened drinks.
(Flickr/caffine and malice)
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No Need to Sacrifice
Matthew Yglesias
American foreign policy has never been independent of politics, but in recent years, politics has come first.
Former President George W. Bush on Friday, Dec. 26, 2008, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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The Long Fight for Labor
Jake Blumgart
Why is Barack Obama having such a difficult time undoing Bush-era damage to the Department of Labor?
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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No Need to Sacrifice
Matthew Yglesias
March 11, 2010
American foreign policy has never been independent of politics, but in recent years, politics has come first.
Post Romantic
Paul Waldman
March 9, 2010 | web only
Despite its current financial woes, the Postal Service is still the best mail delivery service around -- and one of the government's bigger successes.
Daddy Issues
Monica Potts
March 8, 2010
From our April issue:
Obama is putting action behind years of talk about fatherhood and poverty.
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The Long Fight for Labor
Jake Blumgart
March 10, 2010 | web only
Why is Barack Obama having such a difficult time undoing Bush-era damage to the Department of Labor?
The Opt-Out Compromise
Paul Starr
March 9, 2010 | web only
How to let individuals out of the insurance mandate and improve the odds of health-care reform.
A Challenge to American Women
Courtney E. Martin
March 8, 2010 | web only
We have a moral obligation to focus on international women's uplift, but we must also act locally.
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A Path to Peace
Daniel Levy and Amjad Atallah
March 10, 2010
It's time to take America's Middle East policy off autopilot and change our approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. President Barack Obama tours the Sultan Hassan Mosque with Iman Abdel Fateh and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009. (White House/Pete Souza)
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The Fake Weed Fight
March 5, 2010 | web only
Rebecca Delaney
TAP talks to a former police chief who thinks drugs should be legal about new efforts to ban a pot substitute.
Gay? Check Yes or No
March 4, 2010 | web only
Gabriel Arana
Penn just announced they would use admissions data about sexual orientation to recruit gay students. But does that really open the door for true diversity?
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The Rahm Problem
Matthew Yglesias
March 4, 2010 | web only
The latest drama over the White House's chief of staff and its record on national security is much ado about nothing.
Bunning for Senate Reform
Tim Fernholz
March 3, 2010 | web only
Well, not exactly. But the Kentucky senator might prove that the filibuster has made fools of us all.
Obama, Congress Wink at Massive Surveillance Abuses
Julian Sanchez
March 3, 2010 | web only
This week's reauthorization of the Patriot Act comes on the heels of the revelation Obama's Office of Legal Counsel granted fresh retroactive immunity for Bush-era telecommunication lawbreaking.
The New McCarthyism
Adam Serwer
March 3, 2010 | web only
How a smearing of Justice Department lawyers as "terrorist sympathizers" traveled from the conservative media to the United States Senate.
The Recruits
Adam Serwer
March 2, 2010
Al-Qaeda knows how to appeal to young Western Muslims, but the United States still has a lot to learn.
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Political Malpractice
Paul Waldman
March 2, 2010 | web only
Contrary to Republican arguments, tort reform is no health-care cure-all. So why are Democrats seriously considering it?
Citizens Restarted
Mark Schmitt
March 1, 2010
The Citizens United ruling may bring a new day in the effort to separate economic inequality from democracy.
The Art of the Possible
Suzy Khimm and Tim Fernholz
March 1, 2010
Eight policy -- and political -- wins that are achievable for Obama right now.
The Atheist with a Soul
Nathan Schneider
February 26, 2010 | web only
36 Arguments for the Existence of God shows there is something to be gained by delving into the rudiments and accoutrements of religion even if you think they're basically bogus.
The Amazing Vegetable Oil Jet
Paul Waldman
February 26, 2010 | web only
TAP talks with The Department of Mad Scientists author Michael Belfiore about the government agency where being outlandish is part of the mission.
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The Great School Delusion
David L. Kirp
An education reformer discovers that tests, standards, and other silver bullets are no substitute for hard teaching.
No Need to Sacrifice
Matthew Yglesias
American foreign policy has never been independent of politics, but in recent years, politics has come first.
Let's Be Rational About Sex
Gabriel Arana 
Opponents of gay rights have long relied on disgust to justify discrimination. Recent legal gains suggest this argument is losing its potency.
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Ann Friedman is deputy editor of The American Prospect.
