Morals of the Election
The Democrats have paid for 50 years of standing on principle.
By Paul Starr

An Uncertain Trumpet
Whatever pundits say, this election was not a wholesale repudiation of liberalism.
By Robert Kuttner

Devil in the Details
T@P More bad news: the ’06 Senate map; when 23 percent equals 30 percent; miscounting Latinos.
By The American Prospect Staff

Tax Missimplification
T@P It's not a done deal.
By Robert S. McIntyre

Keeping the Faith
T@P Americans didn’t reject John Kerry’s policies. They just didn’t pay attention to them.
By Robert B. Reich

What’s Next?
T@P The mourning period is over. Now, four simple guidelines for becoming a majority party.
By Alan Brinkley

Opportunity Knocks
T@P It may look grim now, but the Republicans’ hubris and incompetence will ultimately prove their undoing.
By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Voting Alone
T@P In red-state America, politics is much more deeply integrated into other aspects of people's daily lives.
By Lizabeth Cohen

Conviction Politics
T@P One Democratic hero emerged from November 2. His fellow Democrats should study up on why.
By Rick Perlstein

Think Globally
T@P Just how many elections do Democrats have to lose before they deal with their foreign-policy problem?
By James Mann

Mind the Gender Gap
T@P Why Democrats are losing women at an alarming rate.
By Anna Greenberg

Operation Save Face
Victory in Iraq as Bush has defined it is utterly unattainable. There’s a better way out.
By Peter W. Galbraith

Facing Up
The Democrats have to confront what ails them.
By Garance Franke-Ruta, Sarah Wildman, Sarah Blustain and Matthew Yglesias

Heal Thy ‘Self’
What the Democrats didn’t get: For most middle-class people, self-interest means far more than economics.
By Garance Franke-Ruta

Choice Language
Abortion is a right that ends in sorrow. Democratic rhetoric in the future must acknowledge this fact.
By Sarah Blustain

Insecurity Blanket
Kerry’s foreign-policy problem was really his party’s. It’s time for Democrats to get serious once and for all.
By Matthew Yglesias

Wedding-Bell Blues
It’s possible that Democrats could have fought this one to a draw if they had emphasized discrimination.
By Sarah Wildman

God and the New Deal
The men who made the New Deal and built the CIO were secular liberals and socialists. But they knew that to succeed, they would have to accommodate traditional religion.
By Harold Meyerson

Staying the Course
The fight isn’t over; it’s just begun. And progressives have more ammunition than you think.
By Robert Borosage

All Action, No Talk
The Democrats do a very good job of mobilizing. But they’re not so great at persuading.
By Jeff Faux

Life After Yasir
T@P Ariel Sharon has outlived his hated rival Arafat. But now that he’s gone, so is Sharon’s biggest excuse for not negotiating with the Palestinians.
By Aluf Benn

Clothes Call
T@P At midnight on December 31, WTO rules regulating the international trade in apparel are set to expire. If you think China is dominant now …
By Ayelish McGarvey

What’s Up, Docs?
T@P It’s impossible not to sympathize with liberal documentary filmmakers’ political impulses. But there’s a different progressive ideal that’s been lost.
By Noy Thrupkaew

Then Came the Hammer
T@P The dictatorial “czars” of the House of Representatives fell a century ago. Today’s czar might not.
By Sam Rosenfeld

Big-Box Battle
T@P For 1.6 million women, Wal-Mart represents the decline of the American dream.
By Ruth Rosen