Each news story is part of a larger picture. The media reporting daily news may not have the time or space to tie the immediate event to related events occurring over time and nations.

To evaluate news stories relevant to our interests—electoral politics—we need context. This page will provide some context through links to longer, feaure articles in newspapers; magazine articles; analyses provided by Internet sources; essay-style book reviews; and other sources. Unlike news stories, these sources will remain relevant for a long period of time.

"How We Got Into This Mess." By Damon Silvers. Trade, the war on unions, and underfunded schools all lowered wages. Cheap credit propped us up—but now, the debt is due. Herewith, a national economic strategy to turn America around. The American Prospect, May 2008.

"The Simplification Dodge" (book review essay by Robert Kuttner). Why is the tax code so impenetrable? It's all those tax breaks for the rich. The American Prospect, April 2008.

"Is the Game About to Stop?" By Robert Reich. American consumers no longer have the buying power to absorb the goods and services the U.S. economy is capable of producing. The American Prospect, April 2008.

"Extreme Inequality" (book review essay by Daniel Brook). The Nation, April 7, 2008.

"The Wages of Peace." By Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier. Spending on the war in Iraq is a job killer. Ending the war would free up resources for a stijulus program that could end the looming recession. The Nation, March 31, 2008.

"The War and the Working Class." By Michael Zweig. Young people drawn into combat by the "economic draft" are treated like workers in a neo-liberal economy, here or in Iraq. Increasingly, American workers are seeing those parallels. The Nation, March 31, 2008.

"Latin America's Shock Resistance." By Naomi Klein. Recent events in the region show how societies can recover from extreme capitalism. The Nation, November 26, 2007.

"Lost Jobs and Migration: The Real Cost of the Peru Free Trade Agreement." By David Bacon. t r u t h o u t | Perspective, Friday 23 November 2007.

"Who's to Blame for the Brave New Economy?" By Robert Kuttner and Robert B. Reich. Are we all complicit in the erosion of economic stability in American life? Or are corporate and financial elites the culprits? Our resident Roberts -- each of whom has authored a new book on the political economy -- argue the responsibility question. The American Prospect, November 2007.

"How to Fix Our Broken Economy." By Jeff Madrick. Higher wages and increased public investment will stimulate productivity and growth. The Nation, October 22, 2007.

"The Bubble Economy." The sub-prime mess, the huge risks taken by hedge funds, and the conflicts of interest that led to Enron are all the consequences of serial bouts of financial deregulation. Will we reverse field in time to prevent another 1929? By Robert Kuttner. The American Prospect, September 24, 2007.

[Supply-side economics.] "Feast of the Wingnuts." By Jonathan Chait. The New Republic, September 10, 2007 issue.

"Share the Credit." By Michael Lind. Why extending income tax credits to payroll tax payers should be the next big idea in American politics -- politically unassailable, progressive economics on a grand scale. The American Prospect, September 2007.

"Which Kind of Economics?" (book review essay by Jared Bernstein). The American Prospect, September 2007:

[Hedge funds] "What Hedge Funds Risk." By Barbara T. Dreyfuss. Increasingly, everyone's money -- that's what. Nobody rides herd on these unregulated investment funds, which now manage a tidy $1.5 trillion. The American Prospect, July/August 2007.

[Hedge funds] "Hedging Bets." By Jordan Stancil. The Nation, July 2, 2007.

"Hip Heterodoxy." Neoclassical economics still reigns, but its critics are gathering steam. By Christopher Hayes. The Nation, June 11, 2007.

"Dems Sell Out on Trade." Editorial, The Nation, June 4, 2007.

"Tax and Spend." Restored growth, distributed more equitably, is the cure for past debt. That requires public investments. By Robert Kuttner. The American Prospect, June 2007

"The Fiscal Guillotine." Bill Clinton's public investment program was put on hold in 1993, and public investment remained on hold -- well, it's been 14 years now. By Robert B. Reich. The American Prospect, June 2007.

"Faster and Fairer" (book review essay by Ann Crittenden). Two new books offer some thoughtful insights on the future of the American economy. The American Prospect, June 2007.

"Pay Check," by Jonathan Chait. Editorial, The New Republic, May 21, 2007.

"The Flaws in Rubinomics." Placing budget deficits at the center sets government up as the problem. By Thomas Palley. The Nation, May 21, 2007.

"Look Who's Taxing." State politicians of all stripes are rethinking their aversion to raising taxes. By Christopher Hayes. The Nation, May 21, 2007.

"False Choices on Poverty." Why we must address both economics and values. By David Callahan. The American Prospect, May 2007.

"Compassion and Coalition." The paradox of helping the poor by helping all Americans. By Robert Kuttner. The American Prospect, May 2007.

"The Establishment Rethinks Globalization." By William Greider. The Nation, April 30, 2007.

"Friendly Takeover." By common consent, the most influential figure setting the economic course of the Democratic Party is banker Robert Rubin. But his counsel isn't likely to help either the Democrats, their constituents, or the economy. The American Prospect, April 2007.

"Why Economists Can't See the Economy." Economic theory and economic fact have long since parted company. And since we structure the world according to the theories of economists, this imperils just about everything. By Barry C. Lynn. The American Prospect, April 2007.

"Freakopolitics." How did tax credits become the answer to everything? Are there no other tools left in the box? By Mark Schmitt. The American Prospect, April 2007 issue.

"Must Trade Kill Equality?" (book review essay by Robert Kuttner). The nations of Northern Europe manage to trade even more than the United States does, with nothing near the U.S. level of inequality. All it takes is an activist public sector that in no way resembles our own.The American Prospect, March 2007:

"The New McCarthyism." Comment by Larry Cohler-Esses. The Nation, November 12, 2007.

"Schools as Scapegoats." Our increasing inequality and our competitiveness problems are huge -- but they can't be laid at the door of our education system. By Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein. The American Prospect, October 2007.

"Evaluating 'No Child Left Behind'." By Linda Darling-Hammond. The Nation, May 21, 2007.

"The New Geopolitics of Energy." By Michael T. Klare. The Pentagon has now placed resource competition at the center of its strategic planning. The Nation, May 19, 2008.

"Running on Empty." By Mark Hertsgaard. The Nation, May 12, 2008.

"What Nuclear Renaissance?" By Christian Parenti. The nuclear industry isn't going anywhere. It's too costly and won't save us from global warming. The Nation, May 12, 2008.

"Beyond the Age of Petroleum." By Michael T. Klare. Most geologists believe we're nearing peak oil production. After that—a steady decline.The Nation, November 12, 2007.

"Baghdad Burns, Calgary Booms." By Naomi Klein. The Nation, June 18, 2007.

"New Energy for America." This is the first of a series looking at the "Ideas Primary" in Campaign '08. The Nation, June 4, 2007.

"Why We Can't Wait: A 5-step plan for solving the global crisis." By James Hansen. The Nation, May 7, 2007. (See also the other articles on dealing with climate change in this special issue of The Nation.)

"The Path to Universal Health Care." A special report [selected articles]. The American Prospect, May 2008.

• "What Path to Universal Coverage?" By Robert Kuttner. The next administration will expand health coverage. Will they fix what is broken -- or just inflate costs? The American Prospect, May 2008.
• "The Elusive Politics of Reform." By Ezra Klein. Once again, a new administration and Congress will try to bring us universal health insurance. This time, against urgent cost pressures, will they do it right? The American Prospect, May 2008.
• "What Really Ails Medicare." By Jonathan Cohn. The cost crisis of Medicare gets a lot of attention. The program can be fixed only by universalizing the larger health system in which Medicare resides. The American Prospect, May 2008.
• "Health Reform You Shouldn't Believe In." By Marcia Angell. What the Massachusetts experiment teaches us about incremental efforts to incfrease coverage by expanding private insurance. The American Prospect, May 2008.
• "Lessons From California." By Anthony Wright. The Schwarzenneger plan was a near miss, but well worth the trouble. The stage is set for the next effort. The American Prospect, May 2008.

"Health Policy Placebos." By David U. Himmelstein & Steffie Woolhandler. The Nation, April 14, 2008.

"The Hillarycare Mythology." Did Hillary doom health reform in 1993? It's time to get the facts straight about the Clinton plan and why compromise failed. Here's the real story, from the Prospect co-editor who was a White House senior health policy advisor at the time. By Paul Starr. The American Prospect, September 14, 2007.

"Hillary's Own Plan." Senator Clinton's health proposal signals a new phase in the long struggle for universal health insurance. By Paul Starr. The American Prospect (web only), September 24, 2007.

"Two Trillion Spent on Healthcare Each Year: A Sick Way to Prop Up an Ailing Economy." By Joshua Holland. (AlterNet, July 28, 2007)

"High Stakes on Health." Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel. This is the second of a series looking at the "Ideas Primary" in Campaign '08. The Nation, July 15/23, 2007

"Michael Moore's Sicko." By Christopher Hayes. The Nation, July 16/23, 2007.

"The Medicare Privatization Scam." By Trudy Lieberman. Under the guise of 'consumer choice,' congress is slowly defunding Medicare. The Nation, July 16/23, 2007.

"The Fixer: Our government doesn't take care of its veterans. Steve Robinson does." By Joshua Hersh. The New Republic, May 21, 2007.

"The Health of Nations." Here's how Canada, France, Britain, Germany, and our own Veterans Health Administration manage to cover everybody at less cost and with better care than we do. The American Prospect, May 2007.

"Lost Jobs and Migration: The Real Cost of the Peru Free Trade Agreement." By David Bacon. t r u t h o u t | Perspective, Friday 23 November 2007.

"The Fence to Nowhere." More than ever, we need to craft an accord on migrant workers. By Alejandro Portes. The American Prospect, October 2007.

"After Failure." By Ezra Klein. The American Prospect, October 2007.

"Coming to America." What life is like for the 150,000 guest workers who toil in the U.S. today. By Felicia Mello. The Nation, June 25, 2007.

"The Missing Debate." By Stephen F. Cohen. Why aren't the presidential candidates talking about Moscow's impact on our national security? The Nation, May 19, 2008

"The Obama Doctrine." By Spencer Ackerman. Barack Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a serious presidential contender in decades. But will voters buy it? The American Prospect, April 2008.

"The Next President and the Middle East." By Daniel Levy. Some policy pointers: Get out of Iraq. Work with (some) Islamists. Create the Palestinian state. Thereby, undercut al-Qaeda. The American Prospect, April 2008.

"From Fantasy to Fiasco" (book review essay by Michael Lind). The convergence of conservative nationalists and neoconservatives within the Bush administration, and the deadly fantasies it spawned. The American Prospect, April 2008.

"Farewell to Arms" (book review essay by Jay Winter). In his new book Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?, James Sheehan tries to account for the astonishing transformation of Europe that has come with the death of the warfare state. The American Prospect, April 2008.

"Latin America's Shock Resistance." By Naomi Klein. Recent events in the region show how societies can recover from extreme capitalism. The Nation, November 26, 2007.

"Undebated Challenges." By Sherle R. Schwenninger. Introduction to articles on a progressive foreign policy. The Nation, November 19, 2007:

• "Avoiding the Toughness Trap." By Willian D. Hartung. Elements of a progressive security strategy.
• "The Iranian Challenge." By Trita Parsi. It's high time we shed false assumptions.
• "Combating Muslim Extremism." By Juan Cole. America should give diplomacy a chance.
• "Facing Hamas and Hezbollah." By Helena Cobban. Refusing to negotiate is an unrealistic policy.
• "Jobs, Justice and Democracy." By Afshin Molavi. Mideast policy must include development.
• "Relearning the Art of Diplomacy." By Anatol Lieven. Most candidates have no idea what it involves.
• "Why We Need International Law." By Oona Hathaway. Undoing the Bush Administration's damage.
• "The Great Debate of 2008." By Jerry W. Sanders. Leading Dems cop out on foreign policy.

"The View From Jantar Mantar" (book review essay by Basharat Peer). The Nation, November 19, 2007:

"Beyond the Age of Petroleum." By Michael T. Klare. Most geologists believe we're nearing peak oil production. After that—a steady decline.The Nation, November 12, 2007.

[China] "Big Red Checkbook." Book review essay by John Feffer. The Nation, November 5, 2007.

"Shifting Targets." The Administration’s plan for Iran. by Seymour M. Hersh. The New Yorker, October 8, 2007.

"Why We're Losing the War on Terror." By David Cole and Jules Lobel. The Nation, September 24, 2007 issue.

"The Iranian Impasse" (book review essay by Janet Afary & Kevin B. Anderson). The Nation, July 16/23, 2007.

"A Globalism for our Time." By Nicolaus Mills. Sixty years ago, George Marshall unveiled his plan for rebuilding Europe and redefining America's role in the world. It was on-target then, and his vision for America's role is even more on-target today. The American Prospect, July/August 2007.

"Persian Ghosts" (book review essay by Chris Toensing). The Nation, July 2, 2007.

"For Liberal Internationalism." By Michael Lind. The Nation, July 2, 2007

"Chinese Mirrors" (book review essay by Rick Perlstein). The Nation, June 25, 2007.

[World Bank] "Neoconned Again." By John Nichols. The Nation, June 25, 2007.

[World Bank] "Wolfowitz and the Bank." The Nation, June 11, 2007.

"The Last 'Competitive Advantage': Letter from China." The Nation, June 4, 2007.

"China Undermines U.S. in Latin America." Latin Business Chronicle, June 4, 2007.

"The Iran Puzzle." The Islamic Republic is the most troublesome Mideast state, but has signaled its desire to deal with us. How should America respond to Iran? Ray Takeyh | May 22, 2007. The American Prospect, June 2007.

"A New Stance Toward Havana." The passing of the politics of perpetual hostility. By Julia E. Sweig. The Nation, May 14, 2007.

"Miami Vise." Cuban-American moderates are on the rise, but hard-liners still call the shots. By Max J. Castro. The Nation, May 14, 2007.

[World Bank] "Sacrificial Wolfie." By Naomi Klein. The Nation, May 14, 2007

"A Guided Tour of Hell: My journey through Darfur." By Bernard-Henri Lévy. The New Republic, May 7, 2007.

"Iran: What Next? A TNR Symposium." The New Republic, April 23, 2007.

• "Keep Away: The case for doing nothing." By Laura Secor.
• "Culture War: America's best weapon is the Iranian people." By Azar Nafisi.

"The Semiwarriors" (book review essay by Andrew J. Bacevich). The Nation, April 23, 2007.

"Pakistan's Shaky Dictatorship. Musharraf is besieged by democratic protest, growing jihadi power—and US demands." By Graham Usher. The Nation, April 16, 2007.

"Bush's Shadow Army. How Blackwater became part of Bush's war machine." The Nation. April 2, 2007 issue.

"Made in USA" (book review essay by Perry Anderson). The Nation, April 2, 2007 issue:

"Bush Amigo's Para Pals." By By Liliana Segura. [Colombia] The Nation, March 26, 2007.

"The Spoils of Indian Democracy" (book review essay by Siddhartha Deb). The Nation, March 26, 2007:

"Human, All Too Human" (book review essay by Adam Lebor). The Nation, March 19, 2007:

"America's China Fantasy." Our political and business leaders insist that opening China to trade will eventually turn it into a democracy. But what if they're just making an authoritarian state much more powerful? By James Mann. The American Prospect, March 2007 issue.

"Inside the Surge." By Jon Lee Anderson. The American military finds new allies, but at what cost? The New Yorker, November 19, 2007.

"Bush's Neo-Imperialist War." By John B. Judis. Our Iraqi occupation not only rejects American foreign policy since Wilson, it's a throwback to the great power imperialism that led to World War I. The American Prospect, November 2007.

"In Iraq Forever." By Spencer Ackerman. Despite the Bush administration's party line, construction of permanent U.S. bases along with long-term plans for troop presence continue apace. The American Prospect, November 2007.

[Iraqi nationalism] "Iraq: The Other Surge." By Robert Dreyfuss. The Nation, October 29, 2007.

"The New Counterinsurgency." By Tom Hayden. The Nation, September 24, 2007 issue.

An Inconvenient Truth (book review essay by Andrew Cockburn). The Nation, September 10/17, 2007:

"The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness." By Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian. The Nation, July 30/August 6, 2007.

"Iraq's Founding Mother" (book review essay by Charles Glass). The Nation, July 2, 2007.

"Exodus." The flight of millions from Iraq threatens the entire region. The Nation, June 11, 2007.

"The Shia Fellas." How the Bush Administration and the Neocons got into bed with Iran's agents in Iraq. By Robert Dreyfuss. The American Prospect, June 2007.

"Civil Defense: Iraq needs a surge in bureaucrats." By Kenneth M. Pollack. The New Republic, May 21, 2007.

"How to Get Out of Iraq." By Juan Cole. The Nation, April 23, 2007.

"Betrayed: The Iraqis who trusted America the most." By George Packer. The New Yorker, March 26, 2007 issue.

"Iraq: Who will get the oil?" By Christian Parenti. All eyes are on the new petroleum law, but the widening chaos may render it moot. The Nation, March 19, 2007.

"Longtime Republican Attack Dog Is Feasting on Labor Unions." By Robyn Blumner. The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, 16 December 2007.

"UAW R.I.P.?" Comment by Max Fraser. The Nation, November 5, 2007.

"Leo the Linchpin." By Jim Grossfeld. The American Prospect, October 2007.

"What Worker Rights Can Do." By Thomas Geoghegan. It's in the interest of those who favor free trade to see that worker rights are a fixture in trade agreements. The American Prospect, September 2007.

"The Presidential Pageant." By Eric Alterman. "The Liberal Media" series. The Nation, October 1, 2007 issue.

"It Ain't Necessarily So...." By Eric Alterman. "The Liberal Media" series. The Nation, September 10/17, 2007.

"The Assault on Reality." By Eric Alterman. "The Liberal Media" Series. The Nation, July 16/23, 2007.

"Water Warriors." By Maude Barlow. Declaring water a right, not a commodity, a global water justice movement is growing. The Nation, April 14, 2008.

"Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen." By Naomi Klein. [Privatizing FEMA?] The Nation, November 19, 2007.

"The Hundred-Mile Diet." By Christopher Ketcham. Shunning corporate food, localvores fight global warming and eat well. The Nation, September 10/17, 2007.

"The Manufacture of Uncertainty" (book review essay by Chris Mooney). How American industries have purchased "scientists" to undermine scientific verities when those verities threaten their profits. The American Prospect, April 2008

"Toxic Toys." By Mark Schapiro. The Nation, November 5, 2007.

"With Facts on Our Side." By Katha Pollitt. The Nation, November 5, 2007.

"Partial Law: A lost history of abortion." By Christine Stansell. The New Republic, May 21, 2007.

"Regrets Only". By Katha Pollit. The Nation, May 14, 2007.

"The History of Abortion: Field Guide." By Christine Stansell. The New Republic Online, Post date 05/14/07. A list of six books that explain feminism and the fight for abortion rights.

"The Militarist." By Matthew Yglesias. Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain may protest that he hates war, but no American leader has promoted it more avidly. McCain is not only the most hawkish neocon on the horizon; he genuinely sees war as America's most ennobling enterprise. The American Prospect, May 2008.

"All Aboard the McCain Express." By Rick Perlstein. After months of tarring John McCain as a closet Democrat, the conserviative noise machine is coming around to support him—if it can keep its stories straight. The Nation, April 21, 2008.

"Populism Rising." By Robert Borosage. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be neophyte class warriors, but their populism is more than just rhetorical—and must be, if the Democrats are to win the election and govern successfully. The American Prospect, April 2008.

"The Republican War on Voting." By Art Levine. Inside the GOP's Vote-Suppression Playbook, 2001-2008. The American Prospect, April 2008.

"Who Are They Calling Elitist?" By Eric Alterman. Conservative canard #17: liberals are snobs. The Nation, April 14, 2008.

"Smearing Obama." By Ari Berman. The Nation, March 31, 2008.

"Who Would Jesus Vote For?" By Bob Moser. The new evangelicals are rejecting the religious right and embracing a broader social gospel. The Nation, March 24, 2008.

"Hothead McCain." By Robert Dreyfuss. The presumptive GOP nominee favors US unilateralism and "rogue state rollback." The Nation, March 24, 2008.

"Hawking War Guilt." By Jim Sleeper. The New Republic and the New York Times Book Review keep blaming dissenters. The Nation, November 12, 2007.

"The Iran Wedge." By Paul Starr. Between the GOP's wave of congressional retirements and its lackluster presidential candidates, the party's prospects are looking dim. But they have one cheerful possibility on the horizon: war with Iran. The American Prospect, November 2007.

"The New Right-Wing Smear Machine." By Christopher Hayes. E-mail turns out to be the ideal medium for the spreading of misinformation. The Nation, November 12, 2007.

"Taking Celebrity Seriously." By Stephen Duncombe. Progressives live in a society where fantasy, spectacle and Paris rule. So how do we win? The Nation, October 29, 2007.

"Failing Electoral College." By Rob Richie. The Nation, October 1, 2007.

"French Dressing." By Jonathan Chait. How the right smears Hillary and justifies tax cuts. The New Republic, September 24, 2007.

[Supreme Court] "The Myth of the Balanced Court." By Cass R. Sunstein. In 1980, John Paul Stevens stood at the center of the Supreme Court. Today, he is its most left-wing member -- and he hasn't changed. The American Prospect, September 2007.

"Every Fight Tells a Story." By Mark Schmitt. Democrats are trying to keep political conflicts small and manageable, while Republicans keep trying to make them bigger. The American Prospect, September 2007.

"Farm Bill Showdown." By John Nichols. The Nation, Aug. 27/Sept. 3, 2007.

"Purple America." By Bob Moser. The Democrats' 50-state strategy stokes North Carolina's grassroots. (This is the first in a series of reports by Nation contributing writer Bob Moser, running through the 2008 elections, that will explore the evolving grassroots realities of so-caled red-state politics in this time of political transition.) The Nation, Aug. 13/20, 2007.

"The Populist Moment?" Editorial. The Nation, August 13/20, 2007.

"Impeachable Offenses." By John Nichols. The Nation, Aug. 13/20, 2007.

"Dangerous Privilege." By Aziz Huq. It's time to do something about executive privilege. The Nation, Aug. 13/20, 2007.

"Superiority Complex." By Jonathan Chait. What if they held a war of ideas and nobody came? The New Republic, July 23, 2007.

"Why We Are Vulnerable" (book review essay by Kathleen Tierney). The dirty little truth is that American business doesn't want to pay for disaster preparedness -- and so, we don't have very much of it. The American Prospect, July/August 2007.

"Back to the Future." By John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira. The re-emergence of the emerging Democratic majority. The American Prospect, July/August 2007.

"Democrats Are Back—But..." By Stanley B. Greenberg. The American Prospect, July/August 2007.

"Will the Progressive Majority Emerge?" By Rick Perlstein. Voters are increasingly liberal—if only the Dems would listen. The Nation, July 9, 2007.

"Conservatism Itself." By Robert Borosage. Bush didn't fail because he betrayed conservatism. He failed because his administration was the most conservative of modern times. The American Prospect, July/August 2007.

"In Praise of Red Tape." By Christopher Hayes. The Nation, July 9, 2007.

"The Honeymoon Is Over." [Editorial]. The Nation, June 18, 2007.

"Whose Big Government?" Conservatives grew government in order to guarantee private profits. By Mark Schmitt. The American Prospect, June 2007.

"Guns on the Brain." When it comes to gun controls, Democrats fall silent. As with many hot-button social issues, they can't figure out how to reach people's emotions. Here's how they can regain their moral compass -- and their power of speech. By Drew Westin. The American Prospect, June 2007.

"Dems Tangled in Netroots." By Ari Melber. The Nation, May 21, 2007.

"The Real 'Fake News.'" By Eric Alterman. [Fox 'News'] The Nation, May 7, 2007.

"Branding the Democrats." By Drew Westen. The American Prospect, May 2007 issue.

"Making Elections Fair." By Ari Berman. (Comment) The Nation, April 30, 2007

"The Coming Party Realignment." By Lawrence Goodwyn. The Nation, April 30, 2007.

"Why Liberalism Works." Conservatism is in shambles; liberals have a new opportunity. But what do they stand for? Liberalism is a practical strategy for a free society -- and for solving the mess conservatives will leave behind. The American Prospect, April 2007 issue.

"The Great Divider." George W. Bush and our regional political differences explain only some of the widening gap in the body politic. (Book review essay by Matthew Yglesias). The American Prospect, April 2007 issue:

"The Fraudulence of Voter Fraud". The Bush administration purged U.S. attorneys for failing to prosecute crimes that didn't occur. In These Times, April 18, 2007.

"A Wider Corruption" (Editorial). The Nation, April 16, 2007.

"Terrorized by 'War on Terror': How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America," By Zbigniew Brzezinski. Washington Post, 3/25/07

"When's the Idea Primary?" By Robert L. Borosage. The Nation, March 19, 2007.

"The Agitator: Barack Obama's unlikely political education." By Ryan Lizza. The New Republic, March 19, 2007.