Roundup: Media's Take

Republicans on the Wrong Side of History

by Timothy Egan

The die is cast. They wrecked the car, dug their own grave; no matter what you call it, history’s verdict came early.

Shutdown Fulfills GOP’s Confederate Fantasies

by Steven Rosenfeld

It's a way of acting out a deeply held secessionist dream.

Why The Right Fights

by Ross Douthat

Movement conservatives actually want smaller government.

The Right Gets Its ’60s

by Bill Keller

Obamacare is their Vietnam.

Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results

by Joanne Lipman

Look to the past for effective education results.

The State of Israel As Goliath

by Akiva Eldar

How Israeli society has shut itself off from the Palestinians.

Machiavelli: Still Shocking after Five Centuries

by Stewart M. Patrick

Machiavelli underlined the distinction between politics and morality.

The Fall of the Heritage Foundation and the Death of Republican Ideas

by Molly Ball

How Heritage is hurting the GOP's hopes for a turnaround.

How Alcohol Conquered Russia

by Stan Fedun

A history of the country’s struggle with alcoholism, and why the government has done so little about it.

Destroying the Right to Be Left Alone

by Christopher Calabrese and Matthew Harwood

The NSA isn’t the only government agency exploiting technology to make privacy obsolete.

American Bile

by Robert B. Reich

Rampant inequality drives the "paranoid style" in American politics.

Science’s Humanities Gap

by Gary Gutting

Humanists have been much more receptive to science than vice-versa.

How a College Student Changed Congressional Pay

by Jesse Rifkin

Gregory Watson's college essay received a C — and changed America.

The Rise of the New New Left

by Peter Beinart

Millennials don't subscribe to the same Clintonite-Reaganite consensus.

9/11: The Day Everything Changed ... in Chile

by Ariel Dorfman

9/11 was the day Salvador Allende was toppled in an American-backed coup in 1973.

A Brief History of Data Revolutions in Economics

by Stephen Lohr

Big Data may usher in a revolution in economic management, but it's hardly the first.

Credibility is Not a Good Reason to Attack Syria

by Rajan Menon

"Credibility" is what led to Vietnam.

Syria Is Not Kosovo

by James P. Rubin

Russia and China were also opposed to intervention in Kosovo. But that's where the similarity ends.

Why is the Welsh language dying?

by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Welsh tongue is in decline due to the conservatism of the Welsh people.

Jamelle Bouie: What Links the Neo-Confederate Virginia Flaggers, Barack Obama & Race

Jamelle Bouie is a staff writer at The American Prospect and a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute. In addition to The American Prospect, his reporting and analysis has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, CNN.com, and The Washington Post. He covers campaigns and elections, as well as policy and public opinion. He is based in Washington, D.C. You can follow Jamelle on Twitter at @jbouie, at The American Prospect, or at his website.