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Alexandra Gutierrez

Alexandra Gutierrez is a reporter based in the Aleutian Islands. She is also former associate Web editor of The American Prospect.

Recent Articles

The Little Picture: Dorothy Height.

Alexandra GutierrezApr 20, 2010

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This morning, civil-rights leader Dorothy Height died at the age of 98 in Washington, D.C. For 40 years, she served as president of the National Council for Negro Women. Here, she is pictured attending the 33rd Annual Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award Dinner.

The Little Picture: Eyafallajökull.

Alexandra GutierrezApr 19, 2010

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The Stromboli Project has collected photographs of Eyafallajökull's eruption. The ash produced by the Icelandic eruption has brought air travel in Europe to a halt.

(The Stromboli Project)

The Little Picture: Emancipation Day.

Alexandra GutierrezApr 16, 2010

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Lightning Round: All Tomorrow's Tea Parties.

Alexandra GutierrezApr 15, 2010
  • National Review's Rich Lowry seems awfully smug about an NYT poll in which 52 percent of respondents fear that Obama is leading the country toward socialism and 10 percent don't know or didn't answer. In other words, 38 percent of those polled actually understand what socialism means. Way to go, guys!

The Little Video: Your Tax Dollars at Work.

Alexandra GutierrezApr 15, 2010

It's Tax Day, and the Tea Partiers are out in full force. Instead of showing you crazy signs and tricornered hats, here's the tax-supported PS22 Chorus singing "This Must Be the Place" by the Talking Heads. Socialism, everybody! 

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