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Articles in May 2004 issue of American Prospect, The

• The honorable menace: a new centennial biography of James T. Farrell seeks to revive the truculent author of Studs Lonigan--and to make a neocon of him.(The Literary Life)("An Honest Writer")(Book Review)
  by McLemee, Scott
• Radcon 3: the right-wing trifecta--morality, prosperity, and patriotism--and how to fight it.
  by Reich, Robert
• Hit the road, George.(Devil in the Details)(federal funds for road construction and repair )
  by Pauken, Heidi
• Future retirees at risk: Bush's "ownership society" would replace existing social-insurance systems with personal savings accounts. His approach threatens to make old age and poverty synonymous again.(War On The Middle Class)
  by Munnell, Alicia H.
• Earth last: environment and Public Works Committee chairman James Inhofe is waging a war on science so extreme that even the Bush administration seems moderate by comparison.
  by Mooney, Chris
• Brave new words.(Devil in the Details)(government speak)(Brief Article)
• The great tax shift: the president says his cuts are simply a way of "giving people their money back." But the bill will come due one way or another--and lower- and middle-class households will foot it.(War On The Middle Class)
  by Orszag, Peter R.
• Meanwhile, in Africa ...(United States relations with Eritrea)
  by Vest, Jason
• Off the Wall Street journal.(Devil in the Details)(War in Iraq)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• Throwing away the rules: in its zeal to kowtow to business, the Bush administration is dismantling a century of regulations that protect middle class consumers from financial fraud and health hazards.(War On The Middle Class )
  by Goozner, Merrill
• Freedom Fraud: president Bush and the neocons say they're today's real idealists; that their foreign policy spreads democracy and doesn't coddle dictators. They say it. They just don't do it.(Cover Story)
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• Insincere monetary fund.(Devil in the Details)(secretive selection of new president of International Monetary Fund)
  by McKelvey, Tara
• Losing ground: outsourcing jobs, harassing labor unions, repealing safety regulations, undercutting benefits: the Bush administration is clearly winning a great victory in its war on America's workers.(War On The Middle Class)
  by Faux, Jeff
• The Rice capades: Condi's problems hardly started with the 9-11 commission. She's been screwing up from the start--and her mistakes tell a larger story about conservative foreign-policy failures.(National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice)
  by Kurlantzick, Joshua
• Be unprepared.(Devil in the Details)(effect of Iraq War on military preparedness)
  by Carter, Phillip
• Black listed cancer treatment could save your life.(Advertisement)
• Don't mourn, mobilize: middle-class voters grasp that Bush is not representing their interests. But they don't act on that perception. They might--but it's up to Democrats to motivate them.(War On The Middle Class)
  by Teixeira, Ruy
• Do fat cats pay less?(The Taxonomist)(investment taxes compared to taxes on earnings)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• Get real, Neal.(Correspondence)(reply to Neal Gabler's "Liberalism's Lost Script")(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Mattson, Kevin
• Mel, meet Monty.(The Last Word)(Monty Python's "Life of Brian")
  by Hendra, Tony
• Schools of hard knocks: education is the ticket of entry to the middle class. So why has Bush done so little to establish social equity and so much to impede social mobility? Chalk it up to "compassionate conservatism.".(War On The Middle Class)
  by Kahlenberg, Richard D.
• John on the spot: there's no question that Democrats are united against George W. Bush. But that's not quite the same thing as being united for John Kerry.(Dispatches)
  by Wildman, Sarah
• Amen, sister.(Correspondence)(Christians opposed to George W. Bush)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Holland, Dan
• Dreams and realities.("The American Dream and the Public Schools")(Book Review)
  by Rothstein, Richard
• Middle class and broke: once, the larger society shared the cost of raising and educating the next generation. These days, the responsibilities are falling more to individual families. It's bringing parents to their knees.(War On The Middle Class)
  by Tyagi, Amelia Warren
• Realistpolitik: rising on W.'s right flank: the realists, libertarians, and traditionalists who oppose the neocons' imperial designs--and might even vote that way.(Dispatches)
  by Postel, Danny
• Bum steer.(Correspondence)(misleading review by Laura Secor of "The Sorrows of Empire" by Chalmers Johnson criticized)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Scialabba, George
• The constitution in play.("Restoring the Lost Constitution: the Presumption of Liberty")(Book Review)
  by Lazarus, Simon
• American families at risk.(War On The Middle Class)
  by Leone, Richard C.
• This guy knows.(Correspondence)(intelligence communities' failures in the Middle East)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Eddington, Patrick G.
• Father figured.("George Herbert Walker Bush")(Book Review)
  by Greenberg, David
• Bankers versus base: deficit reduction is the wrong obsession. Democrats need to embrace jobs and growth.
  by Galbraith, James K.
• With stratagems like these ...(Devil in the Details)(Republican campaign tactics)
  by Dubner, Jeffrey
• Step back: how long is the United States going to be in Iraq? And in whose hands and what shape are we going to leave it? Recent events ought to force us all to re-examine these questions no matter whether we opposed or supported the original invasion.(Pr
  by Starr, Paul