From Dissent, a symposium on Intellectuals and their America. Are progressives depressed or too privileged to produce social change, or are we just failing to organize effectively? Without a movement, progressives can't aid Obama's agenda. The Party of Obama: What are the president’s grass roots good for? Barack Obama reminds John Judis of Herbert Hoover — but it doesn’t have to be this way. From The Atlantic's first annual Washington Ideas Forum, what, if anything, can we predict about the next three or seven years of Obama’s presidency, based on its first year and on the trajectories of past presidencies? In a sequel to her acclaimed 2004 essay for Metropolis, Karrie Jacobs observes what the White House website says about Obama's administration. Andrew Sullivan on how Barack Obama is locked in dirty war with the Right. Is the Secret Service targeting the Birthers? Why agents investigating threats to the president have been paying visits to the right-wing activists questioning his citizenship. Tunku Varadarajan writes in defense of tea parties. Who are you calling crazy?: A review of The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan Metzl. Is this McCarthyism 2.0? John Richardson goes inside the Right's battle with ACORN. GOP Hipster Makeover: Stephanie Mencimer on the radical right's Twittertastic search for young blood. A look at why John Thune is the GOP’s future. From Commentary, Jennifer Rubin on why Jews hate Palin (and more and more). A review of Michael Steele's Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda.
