Alexandra Gutierrez

Storm clouds gather around Goldman Sachs. Yep, pretty much. (Flickr/antiparticle)

Though he may not act like it, Adam is on vacation. Filling in this week is Silvana Naguib. Hi, all. Pleasure to be here, and allow me to introduce myself. My name is Silvana Naguib, and I’m a lawyer who lives in Washington. For the last three years, I have blogged sporadically–but with great vigor!–at […]

Truly shameful: This afternoon, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed into law a hopelessly draconian anti-immigrant measure that essentially makes it a crime to be an undocumented citizen. The law will require police officers to inquire about a person’s immigration status if they form “reasonable suspicion” that the person is in the country illegally. What […]

Earth Day goes middle-aged today, celebrating its 40th anniversary. In this photo, the late Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine addresses between 40,000 and 60,000 people on the first celebration of Earth Day in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, on April 22, 1970. Muskie was the author of the 1970 Clean Air Act. (1970 Earth Week Committee of […]

Today, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke unveiled the new $100 bill. The note has two new security features and will go into circulation February 2011. We here at TAP are somewhat more fond of — and familiar with — Abraham Lincoln‘s visage. (Department of the Treasury/newmoney.gov)

This morning, civil-rights leader Dorothy Height died at the age of 98 in Washington, D.C. For 40 years, she served as president of the National Council for Negro Women. Here, she is pictured attending the 33rd Annual Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award Dinner. (Flickr/The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights)

The Stromboli Project has collected photographs of Eyafallajökull’s eruption. The ash produced by the Icelandic eruption has brought air travel in Europe to a halt. (The Stromboli Project)

Today, Washington, D.C., celebrates Emancipation Day. The Freedman’s Memorial in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood has an insanely interesting history — if you’re interested in some weekend reading, check out Kirk Savage‘s Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves.

National Review’s Rich Lowry seems awfully smug about an NYT poll in which 52 percent of respondents fear that Obama is leading the country toward socialism and 10 percent don’t know or didn’t answer. In other words, 38 percent of those polled actually understand what socialism means. Way to go, guys! Meanwhile, the Times probes […]

It’s Tax Day, and the Tea Partiers are out in full force. Instead of showing you crazy signs and tricornered hats, here’s the tax-supported PS22 Chorus singing “This Must Be the Place” by the Talking Heads. Socialism, everybody!