TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. Besides Eric Alterman's print piece on Marty Peretz, Sarah Posner reports on an increasingly popular tactic in anti-gay-rights activism: the Christian right's argument, often articulated by African-American spokesmen, that laws meant to protect homosexuals constitute acts of outright discrimination and oppression against religious citizens and organizations. Meanwhile, Paul Starr, in another free preview from our new July/August print issue and on the eve of Congress possibly resuscitating the immigration reform fight, makes the case that "passing even an imperfect compromise of the kind the Senate had been debating would be far better than doing nothing," and argues that progressives should support a modestly proportioned guest worker program. Take a look, and comment on the articles.
--The Editors