New Issue

Where oh where will I find my Spencer Ackerman articles, you ask? Well, look no further than the new issue of The American Prospect where he has a big article about the construction of permanent bases in Iraq:

But unbeknownst to the press, the public, and most of the Army itself, the clues to an American military occupation of Iraq -- that could last for years and even decades to come -- can be found inside Fort Monmouth. What is happening within that facility suggests that the White House continues to mislead the world about its ultimate intentions.

Seriously, you should subscribe -- there's even an article about The Wire.

Comments

Only republics construct permanent bases in foreign countries.

PS Will Democrats support them if there is a UN vote in their favor?

Posted by Linus | October 23, 2006 5:14 PM

Is occasional NPR-ish pleads of "please subscribe to our magaine!" a term of employment for American Prospect writers?

Posted by DRR | October 23, 2006 11:56 PM

No...as a writer for the magazine, I would like people to read it. Plus, it's a good magazine -- you should read it!

Posted by Matthew Yglesias | October 24, 2006 1:18 AM

I enjoy the American Prospect. I always single out Matthew's articles for careful reading.

There are two obvious gaps among political monthlies though.

Given the monstrous success of the dailykos, a Deaniac monthly seems like an obvious idea. One guesses it wouldn't only be commercially viable, but challenge the Ivy League hegemony over Washington political magazines (and in doing so be the next major step of undermining beltway elitism; how many TNR writers graduated from Lower Asscrack State University? how many are even goys?) As far as I can tell, most of the major contributors to Kos did not go top top ten schools, and their inclusion in (if not dominance of) a periodical aimed at that audience would be mandatory.

It would be nice too to have a sane centrist magazine, or at least a sane owner of the current major centrist monthly.

Posted by Linus | October 24, 2006 1:54 AM

As a TAP subscriber and dailykos reader, i'm not sure the latter would really fly as a print-based model, just because a magazine may just be the wrong format. dkos, in all its anrchic glory, is free (as in beer) and highly participatory, and as a result has an audience that dwarfs just about any other liberal blog. If you want a lefty magazine, some combination of Jamison Foser/Eric Alterman/Glenn Greenwald would be a better model: just as lefty, but more given to magazine length pieces.

Posted by jfaberuiuc | October 24, 2006 2:28 AM