Alexandra Gutierrez

Our Voting Rights series continued: Stephen Ansolabehere, a government professor at Harvard University, and Nathaniel Persily, a professor of law and political science at Columbia University, argue that more electoral data is necessary to understand where voting discrimination is happening and to what extent. The Supreme Court dodged a bullet yesterday by deciding not to […]

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a decision that avoided ruling on the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). While the VRA is intact for now, its future is ultimately in jeopardy. Today, TAPPED will feature guest posts from legal scholars offering suggestions on how the United States should move forward on […]

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a decision that avoided ruling on the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). While the VRA is intact for now, its future is ultimately in jeopardy. Today, TAPPED will feature guest posts from legal scholars offering suggestions on how the United States should move forward on […]

Well, that certainly took long enough. After languishing in appointment purgatory for over three months, former Yale Law Dean Harold Koh may finally be confirmed as legal adviser to the State Department. Sen. Harry Reid filed a petition for cloture on Koh’s nomination yesterday evening, which would force a vote on the nominee’s fate tomorrow. […]

Last week, Newsweek published education writer Jay Mathews’ annual ranking of “America’s Top Public High Schools.” As in years past, the list is quite controversial. You needn’t have paid attention in math class beyond 3rd grade to understand why. Mathews ranks schools using an incredibly simple formula: Number of Advanced Placement & International Baccalaureate tests […]

After not having gone to the movies in a couple of months, I binged this week. I started with Star Trek, wherein two of the major characters learn that they can never go home again in the most literal way. Next was Up, the animated tale of an elderly man forced to have adventures and […]

Iran will hold its presidential election tomorrow, and it looks like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could face a struggle to stay in office. His primary challenger is Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister whom Iran’s reform movement has rallied behind. Mehdi Karroubi, another reformist, and Mohsen Rezaei, a conservative, are also in the race. Here are a […]

Well, this has hardly been a good week for The New York Times. First, there was the Maureen Dowd plagiarism flap. Now, economics reporter Edmund Andrews‘ nightmarish personal story about predatory lending, which Tim wrote about earlier this week, is coming under criticism. After his book Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown was excerpted […]

How can citizenry be engaged across different platforms? Today, the Prospect considers public media 2.0 and asks experts about its future. Ellen Goodman is a law professor at Rutgers University. She specializes in information technology, media, and intellectual property. How do we nurture public media 2.0? Federal support for noncommercial public media needs to be […]

How can citizenry be engaged across different platforms? Today, the Prospect considers public media 2.0 and asks experts about its future. Josh Silver is the executive editor and cofounder of Free Press, an organization that advocates for diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications. The decline of U.S. commercial […]