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Jaime Fuller

Jaime Fuller is the associate editor at The American Prospect.

Recent Articles

Biden versus Goliath

Paul Waldman AND Jaime FullerJan 10, 2013

When President Obama announced that Vice President Biden would be chairing a task force to come up with recommendations on gun restrictions, he said, "This is not some Washington commission. This is not something where folks are going to be studying the issue for six months and publishing a report that gets read and then pushed aside." 

What's the Matter with Lew?

Paul Waldman AND Jaime FullerJan 09, 2013

So what'll it be: Is Jack Lew an anti-Semite? Did he say something cruel in 1985 about A Flock of Seagulls, displaying his bias against differently coiffed Britons? Is he a vicious anti-dentite? 

It's Getting Hot in Here

Patrick Caldwell AND Jaime FullerJan 08, 2013

Fears of the Mayan apocalypse might have been for naught, but that doesn't mean 2012 went by without any new signs of our world's impending doom. On Tuesday the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the United States experienced record temperatures in 2012. Last year's average temperature of 55.3°F is a full one degree higher than 1998, the old record-holder. According to one study, weather stations across the country recorded 34,008 new daily highs, juxtaposed against a paltry 6,664 new record lows.

Getting the Neocon Band Back Together Again

Paul Waldman AND Jaime FullerJan 07, 2013

Today, President Obama officially nominated John Brennan to direct the CIA, since the previous director made a sudden departure (note to prospective Brennan biographers: Watch your step), but the other appointment, of former Nebraska Republican senator Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense, is what got all the attention. Republicans dutifully trooped to the cable cameras to say somberly that they are "troubled" and "concerned" by Hagel's nomination. Though Hagel was once their esteemed colleague, he made them very angry by turning against the Iraq War after having voted for it in the first place. Because, as they will tell you, the war went swimmingly, and anyone who fails to understand that may not have the judgment to lead the Pentagon.

A Long-Term Fiscal Slope

Patrick Caldwell AND Jaime FullerJan 04, 2013

Liberals felt rightfully disgruntled with the president's capitulations during fiscal-cliff negotiations. Obama abandoned his hard-line stance that tax rates must be increased on incomes over $250,000. Instead the deal made the Bush tax cuts permanent for the vast majority of the country, with rates only rising for individuals earning over $400,000—hardly a sensible definition of the middle class. Yet as he gave up his leverage on automatic tax hikes, Obama's compromise bill punted the sequestration cuts until March 1 and left the necessary hike of the debt ceiling as a lingering threat for the nihilistic House Republicans to exploit for further cuts to discretionary spending.

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