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• Brave new words.(Devil in the Details)
• One to watch: if she wins this fall, Samara Barend will be the youngest congresswoman ever, and something nearly as rare: a Democrat from upstate New York.(Devil in the Details)
  by McKelvey, Tara
• LB-Yea.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Viera, Luis
• Liberalism in arms.(Prospects)
  by Starr, Paul
• How much is enough? To live decently, working families need a lot more than what low-wage jobs currently pay. They need social outlays and income supports as well as career horizons.(Economic Bridges)
  by Bhargava, Deepak
• States of emergency.(The Last Word)
  by Ackerman, Bruce
• Rights stuff.(The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution--and Why We Need it More than Ever )(Book Review)
  by Forbath, William
• Bush flips and flops.(Devil in the Details)(apparent policy reversals)
  by Rosenfeld, Sam
• Purgatory of the working poor: people seeking help from the job-training and income-support systems face a bureaucratic paper chase and limited resources. There are oases of progress, but much remains to be done.(Economic Bridges)
  by Hage, David
• Costume psychodramas: a new Manchurian Candidate labors under today's partisan imperatives, while a censored Iranian blockbuster mixes art and politics more deftly.(Currents)(Marmoulak)(Movie Review)
  by Thrupkaew, Noy
• Rules of engagement.(Arguing about War; The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in Age of Terror)(Book Review)
  by Mann, James
• Business: ally or obstacle? Although they're not the norm, a number of civic-minded companies are helping their low-wage workers juggle job and family challenges. Government also needs to do more.(Economic Bridges)
  by Friedman, Dorian
• A more perfect union? Tony Blair was the first British PM to take the European Union seriously. But then came Iraq. Now, the dissension is playing out all over Europe.(Dispatches)
  by Natapoff, Sam
• A payday bonus: the Earned Income Tax Credit helps "make work pay" for millions of hard-pressed families. Despite some blemishes that need fixing, on the whole it's a real success.(Economic Bridges)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• Non-native son: in Massachusetts, John Kerry never had to worry about the (small) black vote. This November, he'll need a huge black turnout. Can he connect?(Dispatches)
  by Goldberg, Mark
• The politics of one America: how to build a coalition of the poor and the middle class to make work pay.(Economic Bridges)
  by Reich, Robert
• Neo-con-artists.(Letter to the Editor)
  by Barnhoorn, Steve
• Citizen Thad.(Devil in the Details)(Thad Anderson posts government documents online)
  by Anderson, Rob
• Go negative.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Honkalehto, Oz
• Women and children last: the right wants welfare mothers to work but will not pay for the necessary child care.(Economic Bridges)
  by McGarvey, Ayelish
• While you were sleeping.(Devil in the Details)(candidate James Hart)(Brief Article)
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• Welfare reform, phase two: doing less with less.(Economic Bridges)
  by Greenberg, Mark
• Cheap trick: Bush's health-savings accounts are a bargain--provided you never get injured or sick.
  by Dreyfuss, Barbara T.
• Cell block: Bush's politicized stem-cell decision puts California on the verge of a "scientific secession.".
  by Mooney, Chris
• Montreal expo.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Gainsborough, Jenni
• Bridging the two Americas.(Economic Bridges)(working poor)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• Back to school.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Starr, Jerry
• Nukes from kooks.(Devil in the Details)(North Korean ballistic missile capability)
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• Wage wars.(Devil in the Details)(minimum wage legislation)
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Can better skills meet better jobs? The economy needs both. Here's how we can attain them.(Economic Bridges)
  by Bernstein, Jared
• The facilitators.(The Taxonomist)(American accounting firms in Russia)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• He's got womb?(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Becker, Nancy
• The brains thing: three years of watching Bush makes the point: intelligence matters more than "character".
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• The big squeeze: Republicans have always defended big business. But they've never done it quite like this.
  by Sirota, David
• Unfillable Rx.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Levitt, Lee