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Monica Potts

Monica Potts is a senior writer for The American Prospect. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Connecticut Post and the Stamford Advocate. She also blogs at PostBourgie.

Recent Articles

Eat a Goddamn Vegetable.

Monica PottsJan 31, 2011

FDA Official: "Just Eat A Goddamn Vegetable"

The USDA released its updated food guidelines today, and Martion Nestle at Food Politics is actually impressed.

The Koch Brothers' Real Power.

Monica PottsJan 31, 2011

I'm going to disagree with my colleague Jamelle Bouie a bit (don't tell him, he's sitting right beside me, and I don't want things to get awkward!), who argues that the Koch brothers' efforts to fund conservative campaigns aren't really such a big deal. This was prompted, of course, by as many as 1,000 protesters at a retreat run by the Koch Foundation yesterday. Bouie says:

Gov. Kasich Doesn't Need You, and He Doesn't Need You, or You!

Monica PottsJan 28, 2011

Over at ThinkProgress, Tanya Somanader tells us that when asked by state Sen. Nina Turner, a Democrat, whether he needed help diversifying his all white, mostly male Cabinet, newly elected Gov. John Kasich replied, "I don't need your people." Turner is African American and, out of an abundance of caution, everyone is sure to say that Kasich could have been referring to Turner and her staff, Democrats, or, maybe, her constituents. But, you know, that would be easier to imagine if Kasich weren't so hostile to hiring women and people of color.

"Objective" Reporting.

Monica PottsJan 28, 2011

Associate Press reporter Stephen Ohlemacher has a dour piece about Social Security. I'll leave it to AlterNet's Joshua Holland to describe what's wrong with the piece, but I just wanted to point out that Ohlemacher is the same reporter who wrote an awful piece in April about how so many Americans don't pay taxes.

Target on Planned Parenthood.

Monica PottsJan 27, 2011

Jamilah King at ColorLines highlights the effort of an anti-abortion group called Live Action to "O-Keefe" Planned Parenthood -- that is, to try to catch employees on video cooperating with someone posing as a sex worker the way conservative activist James O'Keefe did with ACORN.

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