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Articles in May 2006 issue of American Prospect, The

• God, this guy's good: don't laugh--the reggae, rap, and devotion that infuse Matisyahu's third album place him in an elite tradition of lofty style blenders.(Matthew Miller)
  by McKinney, Devin
• What would Judas do?(Brief article)
• And finally.(Up Front)
• Penta-gone.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
  by Ullmann John E.
• Going postal.(elections by mail in Oregon)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• Friends like these.(Jack Abramoff )(Brief article)
• More Gore.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
  by Sullivan, Barbara
• Life after wartime: the recent feuding between Japan and China underscores a little-noted historic dispute--Japan's miserly compensation of imperial victims.
  by Fingleton, Eamonn
• DeLay's good deeds.(Tom Delay)(Brief article)
• Uh, we did that?(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
  by Burgess, Jack; Klein, Ezra
• First among thirds: since 1998, New York's Working Families Party has been that rare thing: a third party that doesn't run spoilers and has real-world impact. Now, the party is testing the waters beyond the Empire State.
  by Sargent, Greg
• Next stop Iran?
  by Starr, Paul
• Vice squad: they terrorize other government officials, and they're so secretive that their names aren't even revealed to a harmless federal employee directory. And they've helped ruin the country. Meet Dick Cheney's staff.
  by Dreyfuss, Robert
• The curse on unions.(Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement)(Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise)(Book review)
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Spot the fake 2006 right-wing book title.(QUIZ)
• Party in search of a notion: Democrats have matured into a disciplined opposition party, and they're increasingly confident of victory this fall. But the opportunity before them is far bigger than a few House and Senate seats if they can recognize--and se
  by Tomasky, Michael
• Don't get mad, get even.(Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men--And What to Do about It)(Book review)
  by Crittenden, Ann
• Who is, uh ...(Up Front)(Bill Frist passes the immigration reform bill)(Brief article)
• Continental drift: demagogues and the dangerous tide of anti-immigrant populism.
  by Goldberg, Mark Leon
• Fight now, think later.(Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government-- and How We Take It Back)(Book review)
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• The question: it's May! If Dick Cheney were a flower, what flower would he be?.(Up Front)
• Power outage: twenty years after People Power, things look like they did before it.(THE PHILIPPINES)
  by Kurlantzick, Joshua
• A technology too far.(INTERNET VOTING?)(direct recording electronic voting)
  by Keisling, Phil
• Tale of two posts.(Up Front)
• We're working on them.(bloggers)
  by Hamsher, Jane
• The new guy: Daniel Ortega plots a comeback--but an unlikely foe stands in his way.
  by Kinzer, Stephen
• On the Oregon trail: in a backlash against new electronic calamities, vote by mail spreads far beyond its roots, one county at a time.(VOTE BY MAIL)
  by Rosenfeld, Sam
• Dropped hammer.(Up Front)(Tom DeLay retires from public office)(Brief article)
• The soldier in me.
  by Zuniga, Markos Moulitsas
• The Labour soap opera.(Labour Party)
  by Schmitt, Mark
• The Oregon voting revolution: how a vote-by-mail experiment transformed the democratic process.(VOTE BY MAIL)
  by Hamilton, Don
• Card shuffling.(Up Front)(Andy Card appointed at Office of Management)(Josh Bolten appointed at White House chief of staff)(Brief article)
  by Rosenfeld, Sam