After citing The Nation’s 125^th Anniversary issue in my last post, I realized that I really ought to give a shout-out to another of my favorite magazines that has just had an anniversary. The American Prospect, a monthly journal of politics and policy, is just a kid compared to The Nation and much less well known, but its 25^th Anniversary issue, just out, is excellent. Most of the contents are unavailable to non-subscribers, but take a look at the article by political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson for an insightful overview of the current state of American politics. Their basic question: how is it that the Republican Party has paid no large political price for moving so far to the right?