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• Movement Interruptus: September 11 slowed the Democratic trend that we predicted, but the coalition we foresaw is still taking shape.
  by Judis, John B.; Teixeira, Ruy
• Soft on war crimes?(Devil in the Details)
  by Goldberg, Mark Leon
• Courting trouble: liberal overdependence on the courts, combined with an obsessive preoccupation with church-state symbolism, has reached its limit.
  by Neuborne, Burt
• The enemy of comfort.(THE LAST WORD)(Iris Chang)(Obituary)
  by Mills, Nicolaus
• Mapquest.dem: what's the matter with Massachusetts? The democrats are far too dependent on it. Go Midwest, young man.
  by Lind, Michael
• No sweat, doctor.(Devil in the Details)
  by Rosenfeld, Sam
• Color it wrong: the tactics are more subtle than in the old days, but suppression of votes in minority neighborhoods is very much alive and well.
  by Carbo, Steven
• To our readers.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Editorial)
• New year's resolutions.(THE TAXONOMIST)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• Security flaws.(PROSPECTS)
  by Starr, Paul
• Whither the ward heelers? The democratic "527s" all but supplanted the party, but does ACT have a second act?(AMERICAN DEMOCRACY)(America Coming Together)
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Correction.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Correction Notice)
• A farewell to Armitage: Colin Powell's departure has been much discussed. Less so has been his deputy's. But the latter may prove to be the more important move.
  by Ackerman, Spencer
• The democracy we deserve: there's reason to be optimistic about the prospects for reform. Here's why.
  by Rapoport, Miles S.
• Weird science.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Valelly, Rick
• The battle begins: for decades, Social Security was called the "third rail" of American politics. Suddenly, privatization sounds like a done deal. Not so fast.(Dispatches)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• 2004: a report card: the appearance of a disaster averted obscures an election system that's still badly broken.
  by Wang, Tova Andrea
• Hit job.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Horowitz, Michael
• The God squad: what's the difference between a politically conservative Supreme Court and a Court dominated by religious conservatives? Read on.(Dispatches)
  by Jacoby, Susan
• EU got that thing.(The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy)(Book Review)
  by Moravcsik, Andrew
• Progress noted.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Kambic, Matt
• America observed: why foreign election observers would rate the United States near the bottom.
  by Pastor, Robert A.
• Transcript.(Devil in the Details)(Brief Article)(Transcript)
• Action liberalism.(Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism)(The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ)(The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment)(B
  by Greenberg, David
• I'm Jacques-d!(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Ross, Robert J.S.
• The good news about pain treatment.(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
• What? No tang?(Devil in the Details)
  by McGarvey, Ayelish
• A few good states: Maine, Minnesota, and now Georgia are showing that well-run elections are more than possible.
  by Rosenfeld, Sam
• North malice forty: what the Republicanization of testosterone means for the Democrats.(SPORTS)
  by Tomasky, Michael
• Dossier: red-state values.(Devil in the Details)
• Don't count on it: why we need paper trails to back up compromised and fallible voting machines--and why we're not getting them.
  by Goldberg, Mark Leon
• The Democrats' Da Vinci Code: the election results they didn't tell you about: progressive victories in the heart of red America.
  by Sirota, David
• Islamabad is good.(Devil in the Details)
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• Vanishing bipartisanship: a conversation with Warren Rudman.(AMERICAN DEMOCRACY)(Interview)
  by McKelvey, Tara