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Articles in January 2004 issue of American Prospect, The

• Is it time to believe? Bill Clinton rebuilt the Democratic Party in crucial ways. But Howard Dean is rebuilding it in a way Clinton missed. Party insiders would do well to make their peace with it.(Primary Kickoff)
  by Tomasky, Michael
• The Catholic paradox.(Book Review)
  by Sullivan, Amy
• Culture war, round 3077: this latest battle has it all: a federal international-studies bill and two sides--government and academe--worlds apart in their interpretation.(The Academy)
  by Gitlin, Todd
• The terror trap: hard-line campaigns against Islamic terrorism--here or in Israel--don't merely fail as strategy. They fulfill the terrorists' stated goals.(Dispatches)
  by Gorenberg, Gershom
• Works on progress.(Book Review)
  by Galbraith, James K.
• Pathways to good jobs: can career ladders solve the low-wage problem?
  by Fitzgerald, Joan
• Friends of spam.
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• Brave new words.
• Bookshelf: the World of Tomorrow.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
• Banking on decent jobs: bankers have choices in how they use new technology to transform work. So far, ordinary workers are both winners and losers. Why not more winners?
  by Serrin, William
• Off the Wall Street Journal.(Brief Article)
• One funny liberal.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Turner, Tommy
• A pretty business.(Book Review)
  by Greif, Mark
• Press one for better service: squeezed by corporate managers, call centers have been exasperating consumers and workers alike. New research shows that better jobs produce happier customers.
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• How a bill becomes a law (revised).(Devil in the Details)
  by Pauken, Heidi
• At least they're reading us.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
• When the high road isn't enough: North Carolina's hosiery industry has it all: technology, training and employer-worker partnerships. But because of lax--and often unenforced--trade laws, it still may lose out to cheap foreign labor.
  by McGarvey, Ayelish
• Wal-Mart nation.
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Higher skills, fewer jobs: with advanced technology and skilled workers, America can keep a strong manufacturing sector, but rising productivity equals a smarter--and smaller--work force.(In Low-Wage America)
  by Goozner, Merrill
• Spare the dime!(Devil in the Details)
  by Franke-Ruta, Garance
• Jobs, not GDP.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Schreiber, William F.
• Las Vegas as a workers' paradise: the hotel workers' union boosted wages and transformed dead-end jobs into middle-class careers in the very belly of the casino economy. Here's how it happened.(In Low-Wage America)
  by Meyerson, Harold
• The low-wage puzzle: why is America generating so many bad jobs--and how can we create more good jobs?(In Low-Wage America)
  by Jencks, Christopher
• The new politics of Medicare.(Prospects)
  by Starr, Paul
• A tradition tested.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Robertson, Andrew W.
• Super hype: not all delegates are created equal, but party insiders can't block Dean. Unless ...(Primary Kickoff)
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• The O'Connor project: can we end racial discrimination without affirmative action? Here's what it will take.(Setting Agendas)
  by Schorr, Lisbeth B.
• And they're off! Dean may be on a roll, but he's still 2,159 delegates away from being the nominee. Here, our comprehensive, all-knowing, semi-speculative skinny on who's strong where.(Primary Kickoff)
  by Pauken, Heidi
• A bad senior moment: the GOP won this Medicare fight. Now, Dems must keep seniors (and themselves) united.
  by Skocpol, Theda
• Revolution now (and then)! The Battle of Algiers defined a political moment when it was released in 1965. Now it's back, and, if anything, it's even more relevant today.(Currents)
  by Hoberman, J.
• For a smarter public, Deliberation Day.(Comment)
  by Fishkin, James S.
• No common sense in the Commonwealth.(The Taxonomist)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• High-wage America: how we can reclaim a middle-class society.(Editorial)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• The Democrats' micro economics.(The Last Word)
  by Reich, Robert
• Do good and dump W.
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Abort mission: Ronald Reagan's miniseries may have bombed, but his global gag rule, vastly expanded by the Bush administration, is still spreading misery.(Dispatches)
  by Wildman, Sarah
• Phoenix rising: tucked away in the recent Iraqi appropriation was $3 billion for a new paramilitary unit. Close students of Vietnam may see similarities.(Dispatches)
  by Dreyfuss, Robert