Grand Old Jurassic Party
With its focus on ideological purity, the Republican species is pushing itself toward extinction
Friday, Feb 15, 2013 1:26 PM UTC 29Politics The American Prospect, GOP
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Politics The American Prospect, GOP
Marco Rubio humiliates himself
It wasn't his scrambling for a bottle of water Tuesday night. It was his insipid speech mixing calumny and cliché
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 12:56 PM UTC 98Politics The American Prospect
Marco Rubio can’t save the GOP
Immigration aside, the Florida senator's sympathies still lie with Tea Party-type Republicans
Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 3:00 PM UTCPolitics The American Prospect
A sneak peek at Republicans’ post-State of the Union whining
It's only a matter of time before the GOP starts braying about Obama's partisan politics
Monday, Feb 11, 2013 10:00 PM UTC 15Politics The American Prospect
GOP’s newest in-house spat
The latest flare-up between Karl Rove and pundit Brent Bozell highlights a growing rift within the party
Friday, Feb 8, 2013 8:00 PM UTC 10Politics The American Prospect, Politics
The moderate’s GOP survival guide
Republicans want to take their party back from "The Crazy." Here's how they should do it
Friday, Feb 8, 2013 12:51 PM UTC 20Politics The American Prospect
Being a pregnant waitress can get you fired
Women at the bottom half of the workforce face point-blank discrimination when they're expecting
Thursday, Feb 7, 2013 6:11 PM UTCSocial The American Prospect, women
Is the NRA’s message backfiring?
A new national survey reveals that the organization is less popular with Americans than it's ever been
Wednesday, Feb 6, 2013 8:17 PM UTCPolitics The American Prospect, Guns, NRA
The Tea Party alone didn’t cripple the GOP
Establishment Republicans can't keep blaming their party's troubles on its extremist fringe
Monday, Feb 4, 2013 6:25 PM UTC 32News The American Prospect
Will Obama break the filibuster?
The D.C. Court of Appeals decision knocking out recess appointments may give him no other choice
Sunday, Feb 3, 2013 2:00 PM UTCPolitics The American Prospect, Politics
John McCain’s sad, bitter twilight
The senator's contempt for Chuck Hagel in Thursday's confirmation hearing was all about the guy who nominated him
Saturday, Feb 2, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 103Politics The American Prospect
It’s not a democracy if we don’t have the right to vote
Most Americans already believe that the vote is sacrosanct. The least we can do is enshrine it in our laws
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 3:10 PM UTC 40Politics The American Prospect
Will “alt-labor” replace unions?
As union membership steadily declines, new non-union workers' groups are filling the labor movement's biggest void
Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 8:45 PM UTCSocial The American Prospect, Labor
Voters to the GOP: It’s not you, it’s your ideas
Republicans continue to believe that their problem in 2012 was their messaging. It wasn't
Monday, Jan 28, 2013 5:56 PM UTC 27Politics The American Prospect
Sam Brownback’s Kansas is a resort for “makers”
The governor has transformed the state into a laboratory for ultraconservative policies
Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 2:00 PM UTC 52Business The American Prospect
What killed filibuster reform?
Senators have a disincentive for getting rid of the anti-majoritarian rule: It gives them more power
Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 2:00 PM UTC 21Politics The American Prospect
Virginia Republicans move forward with mass disenfranchisement
A Senate subcommittee has recommended a bill to rig the state's electoral vote allocation
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013 11:49 PM UTC 47Politics The American Prospect, Virginia
Mississippi’s last abortion provider
Meet Willie Parker, the public face of the effort to save the state's only abortion clinic
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013 3:18 PM UTCPolitics The American Prospect
“Juno” isn’t the average abortion
Forty years after Roe v. Wade, why do we still think of white middle-class women as the typical abortion patients?
Tuesday, Jan 22, 2013 4:28 PM UTC 17All Salon The American Prospect, Juno
Is Afghanistan worse than Vietnam?
With U.S. troops scheduled to withdraw in 2014, a look at some key statistics from America's longest running war
Sunday, Jan 20, 2013 4:00 PM UTC 45Politics The American Prospect
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