Back when the world still cared about Gary Condit (which is to say, not too long ago), the politically conservative comic-strip duck Mallard Fillmore doled out some predictable partisan criticism: “Before the Chandra Levy story, ABC, NBC and CBS usually referred to Congressman Condit’s party affiliation! Now 92% of the time, they don’t!” Dramatic pause. […]
Alexander Nguyen
Alexander Nguyen, a former Prospect writing fellow, is a student at Yale Law
School.
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The Assault on Miranda
Benbrook Lake near Fort Worth, Texas, is the kind of place where fishermen catch sandbass and lovers wake up to a tequila sunrise. But on a December day in 1983, violence came to Benbrook Lake in the person of Ronnie Dale Gaspard. He was affiliated with the Bandidos, a motorcycle gang whose members snorted methamphetamine […]
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A Conversation with John Judis
John Judis [“Al Gore and the Temple of Doom,” TAP Vol. 11 Issue 11] is a senior correspondent at The American Prospect and a senior editor at The New Republic. He recently published a book titled The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust. Q: Tell me a little […]
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The Agony of Victory:
In football, if your team wins the game, homecoming is where you savor the victory, spray champagne on your teammates, recount the winning touchdown and gloat about crushing your opponents. This Presidents’ Day weekend GOP homecoming was . . . different. The 28th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference, held in the Marriott in Arlington, Virginia […]
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The GOP’s False Consistency
“The Statue of Liberty says, ‘Send me your poor, your sick, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,’” sermonized John McCain, admonishing government officials to keep Elián González in United States rather than returning him to his father in Cuba. When the Clinton Administration decided to return the boy, George W. Bush and […]
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The Immigrant Trap:
In his address to the nation Thursday night, President Bush made several impassioned pleas for Americans not to blame Arabs or Muslims for the terrorist attacks. “I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here,” he said. “No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or […]
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Bill Clinton’s Death Penalty Waffle —
Bill Clinton recently spared Juan Raul Garza’s life — at least for a little while. On August 5, Garza — a drug trafficker convicted of ordering the murder of three people — would have become the first person executed by the federal government in almost 40 years. Though few question whether Garza is guilty, Clinton […]
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Impeachment at Harvard
Benbrook Lake near Fort Worth, Texas, is the kind of place where fishermen catch sandbass and lovers wake up to a tequila sunrise. But on a December day in 1983, violence came to Benbrook Lake in the person of Ronnie Dale Gaspard. He was affiliated with the Bandidos, a motorcycle gang whose members snorted methamphetamine […]
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Beer and Debates
“Ladies and gentlemen, this year, this Bud’s not for you,” the American Reform Party (ARP), a Reform Party splinter group, announced in January, telling members to stop drinking Anheuser-Busch beers, including Budweiser and Michelob. Why boycott beer? After all, Donald Trump, the famously teetotaling tycoon who briefly contemplated angling for the nomination, has withdrawn. And […]
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Our Ford
Last September AT&T approached the financially struggling First Christian Church in Alexandria, Virginia, with this bargain: In return for letting the company erect a 130-foot-tall cross doubling as a cellular phone tower, the congregation would receive $18,000 annually. Residents were split: Was the money–in the words of the Reverend Tim Mabbott, who supported the idea–a […]