The American Prospect was founded 20 years ago, giving it a birth date that coincides nicely with the end of post-Cold War American foreign policy. "It is a conceit of new publications that their appearance coincides with an historic change," wrote Paul Starr in the magazine's debut issue, "by good…

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August 3, 2010 Read the follow up article written August 21, 2013 Ethan Marcotte’s article Responsive Web Design has caught the imagination of web developers. Several subsequent articles have touted the CSS media query feature as a way to build mobile-optimized web sites. Even I’m guilty of…

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“This is just one of those days when you want to throw up your hands and say, ‘What in the world are we doing?’ ” Senator Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat, said. “It’s unconscionable,” Carl Lev

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Conservative talk-show host Dennis Prager writes that liberals hate conservatives, but not vice versa: Every one of us on the right has seen this hatred. I am not referring to leftist bloggers or to a

During project-based work, every freelancer, agency, or internal department has “the kickoff meeting.” In theory, this meeting should have all the energy, excitement, and potential of the opening salv

Technological advances have often presented new threats to privacy. In 1890, in perhaps the most famous article on privacy ever written, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis complained that because of new technology — like the Kodak camera and the tabloid press — “gossip is no longer the resource of the…

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Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains.

It was fame that killed Robert O’Donnell, killed him as surely as that shotgun blast he fired into his brain on a dark, dusty, West Texas road, miles and years away from the thing that made him famous in the first place.

One night last month, a Virgin Atlantic flight left Heathrow Airport bound for Newark, New Jersey. As the plane neared the Eastern Seaboard, bad weather forced the flight to divert to Hartford, Connecticut, some 106 miles north of its destination. The plane sat on the runway there for four hours –…

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Politics The excitable Fox News host goes to college Michael Moynihan | 7.7.2010 5:00 PM Glenn Beck never went to university, though that hasn't prevented him from creating his own. Today Beck, the we

Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia may be in charge of a beautiful city, but he doesn't have much to take to the bank. Last year Philly's creditors put the city on a negative-ratings watch, following a borrowing spree that resulted in a couple of stadiums and a heap of bribes for a city treasurer…

I n the years after 9/11, the images we were shown of terrorists were largely the same: shadowy jihadists who, even when they were foiled, seemed always to have come terrifyingly close to pulling off

Ken Chesebro Wants Nothing to Do With Sidney Powell — Especially in Court In a Friday filing, Chesebro’s attorneys “respectfully” requested the court “sever his trial from defendant Sidney Powell” I D

The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets,…

Let’s get one thing straight: Agnosticism is not some kind of weak-tea atheism. Agnosticism is not atheism or theism. It is radical skepticism, doubt in the possibility of certainty, opposition to the

Bertrand Russell, a leading philosopher in his prime, was also a wonderful writer. And, it appears, many of my views were formed when I was but still Young in the Discipline of Philosophy by reading R

Last updated on 19 Apr 2013 I have religious friends, and atheist friends, and they both disagree with me on one point: my claim that I am not an atheist. My religious friends note that I lack a belie

From @NYTimes Magazine: Democrat in Chief? By Matt Bai

JANUARY 7, 2008, 8:03 A.M.–thirteen minutes past sunrise but who can tell. Drizzles sketch the winter grayscale, slates to charcoals to umbers: sky, water, island, shore. I’m taking my usual walk alon

Headlines ‘Trying to avert disaster’ Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake Environmental and community groups have filed lawsuit as the water body shrinks from overuse, hastening it

Living Rooms explores the past, present and future of domestic life. We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of exuberance and growth, with soldiers returning home