George W. and Human Rights
George Washington set a standard that our current president disregards.
By Robert Kuttner

Correspondence
Letters from our readers
By Our Readers

Devil in the Details
T@P Are Afghanis safe enough to vote?; “527” mania; justice, Guantanamo style; and more.
By The American Prospect Staff

Now for Some Bad News
T@PFor most Americans, a flat tax would be anything but level.
By Robert S. McIntyre

Where Are the Rational Greedy Bastards?
T@P Self-interested businessmen should be lining up behind John Kerry.
By Robert B. Reich

Long Division
America is not split over the Vietnam War. But Karl Rove needs you to believe that it is.
By Michael Tomasky

2000, The Sequel
In theory, the Help America Vote Act was Congress’ attempt to prevent the catastrophes of the last election from happening again. In fact, it may have made things even worse.
By Joshua Kurlantzick

Idiot Boxed
One big reason Bush won Florida? Television (prematurely) said he did. By 2001, red-faced network news honchos promised big changes for 2004. Now we’re here. And guess what?
By Rob Garver

Health Care’s Big Choice
As family premiums push $10,000, Bush and Kerry promote radically different proposals.
By Paul Starr

Good Medicine
T@P Medicare does need changes. But its expansion is the key to eventual universal coverage.
By Jacob S. Hacker and Mark Schlesinger

The A-Team
After six weeks of battering, John Kerry learned the importance of a tough and experienced communications operation. But did he learn it in time?
By Garance Franke-Ruta

Buckeye Blues
T@P Ohio has 19 percent of the nation’s lost jobs since Bush took office. So why is Kerry in trouble there? Because the state has lost something else, too.
By Harold Meyerson

Iraq the Vote
T@P This month, to prepare for next January’s elections, monitors begin heading off to Iraq. Or at least to the parts of Iraq that are safe enough for elections.
By Matthew Yglesias

Into the Bright Sunshine
The value of human rights in the United States.
By Dorothy Q. Thomas

The Road to Abu Ghraib
How the United States played a large role in creating international human rights -- and then abandoning them.
By Anthony Lewis

A Lawless State
How to restore America’s global standing as a beacon of freedom -- both internationally and with its own citizenry.
By John Shattuck

Rights in an Insecure World
Why national security and civil liberty are complements.
By Deborah Pearlstein

Criminal Justice and the Erosion of Rights
This isn't the first time a vaguely defined "war" has trumped civil liberties.
By Deborah Pearlstein

Inalienable Rights
Can human-rights law help to end U.S. mistreatment of noncitizens?
By Alison Parker

Holding America Accountable
Why the United States should take human-rights obligations seriously.
By Elisa Massimino

On America’s Double Standard
The good and bad faces of exceptionalism.
By Harold Hongju Koh

The Partial Rule of Law
America’s opposition to the ICC is self-defeating and hypocritical.
By Anne-Marie Slaughter

Shame in Our Own House
How segregation and racism have fed U.S. resistance to international human-rights treaties.
By Gay McDougall

Economic Security: A Human Right
Reclaiming Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s second bill of rights.
By Cass Sunstein

International Holdout
Around the world, empowering women is considered essential. So why isn’t America on board?
By Ellen Chesler

Domestic Abuse
How the U.S. government is violating Native Americans’ human rights.
By Tara McKelvey

From the Front Lines
A review of recent reports on human rights.
By Gara LaMarche

What We Expect From America
Global human-rights efforts need American leadership.
By Mary Robinson

Film: Ernesto Goes to the Movies
T@P The Motorcycle Diaries, brought to the screen by Robert Redford, shows us the young, pre-revolutionary Guevara. Call it soft socialist realism.
By J. Hoberman

Vexations of the Heartland
T@PThomas Frank and Garrison Keillor understand the heartland, but not its politics.
By Ronald Brownstein

Top Gun
T@P Two new books look at American nationalism, both in the Bush presidency and beyond.
By Laura Secor

Who Killed Camp David?
T@P Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross says there’s plenty of blame to go around.
By Sasha Polakow-Suransky

Can’t Swallow It Anymore
T@P The backlash against Big Pharma may have begun.
By Carl Elliott