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Articles in March 2004 issue of American Prospect, The

• The E-Word no right-wing attack against Democrats is more electric than the charge of elitism. It can be buried, but that requires acknowledging the ways in which it has been--let's face it--true.(Class)
  by Mills, Nicolaus
• The umpires strike back: incensed by a congressional act that shackles their sentencing discretion, federal judges--William Rehnquist included--are pounding the gavel.(Dispatches)
  by Cohen, Andrew
• Wage rage.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by O'Grady, Jane
• Follow the money.(Prospects)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• Vietnam remembered.(The Last Word)
  by Reich, Robert
• On god and democrats: will religion give democrats the usual fits this election year? Maybe. But it shouldn't be forgotten that there is a "religious left" in America--it just doesn't go around making lots of noise.(Religion)
  by Parker, Richard
• One China? Two headaches: the Bush administration has danced with both China and Taiwan. But a Taiwanese referendum set for March 20 will force it to choose sides.(Dispatches)
  by Feffer, John
• Not my savior.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Grossman, Jerome
• Liar, liar.
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• Contesting values: in 1988, the democrats got clobbered in an election-year culture war. But that was then. The America of 2004 is a very different place, and the time is ripe to wage a new battle.(Politics)
  by Greenberg, Anna
• Numbers game: since McCain-Feingold, "527s" have been invaluable to the Democrats' 2004 strategy. So what are the republicans trying to do? Eliminate them.(Dispatches)
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Dixie nix?(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Rabson, Gus
• Offshore thing: an easy way to slash the deficit and still finance social outlay: go after the $300 billion in taxes that aren't collected each year. Unfortunately, the Bush administration won't.
  by Loewenberg, Samuel
• Reich? Wrong.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Baker, Dean
• Reclaiming the air: Rush Limbaugh created the model for conservative talk radio. Now a new network hopes to use comedy--liberally--to build an alternative.(Media)
  by Starr, Paul
• Trading down: it's not whether record trade deficits will become a full-blown currency crisis. It's when.
  by Fingleton, Eamonn
• A modern kind of guy.(Devil in the Details)
  by McKelvey, Tara
• The gentle jihadist: Tariq Ramadan touched off a firestorm with a charged accusation against French Jewish intellectuals. But the problems hardly stop there.(Ideas)
  by Smith, Lee (American writer)
• Democracy how? Voices from inside Iraq show just how hard the transition will be.
  by Collier, Robert
• Beverly Bayoubillies.(Devil in the Details)
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• Forward march: sure, Democrats lose some votes because of the stands they take on cultural issues. Funny thing, though--on policy, they usually end up winning. So why change?(Principles)
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• Wake-up time: yes, Bush has bullied the national media. But are they really powerless? Only if they play along. Herewith, five suggestions for how the Fourth Estate can stop the charade.(Cover Story)
  by Tomasky, Michael
• Duty.(Brave New Words)
• Queer and present danger?(Marriage)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• Joker in chief.(The Taxonomist)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• Vast right-wing conspiracy.(Devil in the Details)
  by McGarvey, Ayelish
• The new case for marriage: the first wave of feminism looked upon marriage with suspicion. But the institution has changed (partly because of feminism). So the point now is to embrace it for everyone.(Marriage)
  by Gullette, Margaret Morganroth
• Judicial overreach.(Comment)
  by Starr, Paul
• World to end in 2009.(Devil in the Details)
  by Dubner, Jeff
• Speech impediments: after two decades spent trying to change the subject, Democrats finally seem to understand that they need to speak a language of values. A good first step: figuring out what they are.(Language)
  by Nunberg, Geoffrey
• Rogue whale: seventy years after FDR, JP Morgan finally got its revenge against banking regulations with its Chase merger. But a new FDR is watching.(Dispatches)
  by Natapoff, Sam
• He is the eggman.(Devil in the Details)
  by Pauken, Heidi
• We HAVA problem.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Erickson, Thor