Gabriel Arana

Gabriel Arana is a senior editor at The American Prospect. His articles on gay rights, immigration, and media have appeared in publications including The Nation, Salon, The Advocate, and The Daily Beast. To contact him, visit his website.

 

 

 

Recent Articles

Wisconsin to Make Voting as Painful as a Trip to the DMV.

From the look of it, there is simply no time to lose in Wisconsin to pass the most draconian and disenfranchising voter-identification law in the country (it surpasses even an extremely controversial Indiana law that requires voters to present government-issued photo ID). The new Republican governor in what's now an all-red state -- all three branches of the government are, after the last election, controlled by Republicans -- wants immediate action so the voter-ID law can be in place before the April 5 election for the state Supreme Court. Another, related bill would write the voter-ID law into the state constitution.

The Little Picture: The Verizon iPhone.

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The iPhone. Today, Verizon announced it would begin providing support for iPhone; previously, only AT&T users were able to receive service on an iPhone.

TAP vs. National Review on Bloggingheads.

Executive Editor Mark Schmitt faces off with National Review's Daniel Foster on bloggingheads.tv about the Giffords shooting and the state of political discourse.

The Little Picture: Fighting Violence With Violence?

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A screen grab of Glenn Beck's website, in which the Fox News commentator calls for an end to violence with a photo of Beck holding a gun in the left-hand margin.

The Little Picture: O'Really?

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Fox host Bill O'Reilly. Today, President Obama agreed to be interviewed by the right-wing personality in a Super Bowl pregame segment.

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