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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

Connecticut Democrats Are Happy.

Monica PottsJan 19, 2011

Sen. Joseph Lieberman played a central role in rallying votes for repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," but his advisers likely realized that this was too little, too late to entirely redeem him.

Nothing for Something

Does pushing higher education for everyone actually make it tougher for poor students to enter the middle class?

Monica PottsJan 19, 2011
Students on a college campus (Flickr/showbizsuperstar)

For the Obama administration, expanding access to college is necessary to stop America from falling behind in the global economy. "Lifting graduation rates. Preparing our graduates to succeed in this economy. Making college affordable. That's how we'll put a higher education within reach for anyone who wants it," the president said in an August speech.

Sarah Palin's Ignorance.

Monica PottsJan 18, 2011

Over the weekend, Sarah Palin defended her use of the term "blood libel" last week in an online statement about the Arizona shooting. She spent several minutes arguing that she'd been unfairly accused by her favorite bogeyman, the media, of having had something to do with the shooting because she put out a map before the elections with gun sights surveyor's marks over several congressional districts before the election, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot and wounded along with 14 others. Six were killed.

Anti-Abortion Gains in States.

Monica PottsJan 14, 2011

Women's E-news has a good round-up of the anti-choice action several state legislators are geared up to take now that they have majorities in the assemblies and governorships in states where they didn't before. Expect to see pushes for pre-abortion counseling, a renewed debate over viability, and louder claims that early abortion-rights advocates were racist.

Laws even in states with heavily Republican and anti-choice populations will have real consequences for women, though, and it's another reason we need a renewed push for abortion rights at the state level.

-- Monica Potts

A Right to Make Bombs.

Monica PottsJan 14, 2011

Sarah Palin will speak at a Safari Club International convention in Reno, Nevada, later this month. The Safari Club is a hunting and gun-rights group, and despite what most conservatives want to believe about liberals, I don't have a problem at all with hunting. The number of soft-hearted liberals who protest hunting for hunting's sake is relatively small; it's a conservative straw man. I grew up in Arkansas; hunting is an important tradition, and the population growth of animals like deer is so out of control because of predator loss that we probably should expand hunting licenses. Also, venison is delicious.

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