Over at Beat the Press, Dean Baker parses this New York Times article on Clinton‘s support for the federal gas tax holiday, and Obama‘s opposition to it. The article states: While Mr. Obama’s view is shared by environmentalists and many independent energy analysts, his position allowed Mrs. Clinton to draw a contrast with her opponent […]
Ann Friedman
Ann Friedman is a columnist for New York magazine’s website and for the Columbia Journalism Review. She also makes pie charts for The Hairpin and Los Angeles magazine. Her work has appeared in ELLE, Esquire, Newsweek, The Observer, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many other outlets. She lives in Los Angeles, but travels so often the best place to find her is online at annfriedman.com.
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HAVE WE REALLY COME THAT FAR SINCE AMADOU DIALLO?
Last week a judge acquitted the three NYPD officers who fired 50 shots into an unarmed man, Sean Bell, outside a Queens nightclub in 2006. Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a story about how some black New Yorkers “saw the case through a prism not of race, but of police conduct.” The […]
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THE “NEW” NEW LEFT LOOKS SURPRISINGLY LIKE THE NEW LEFT (AND THE OLD LEFT, FOR THAT MATTER…)
Overwhelmingly white and male that is (I guess that isn’t very surprising really), at least according to this article in Dissent which Kay called my attention to. I’m talking about a new breed of liberal writers who have emerged on the web—a network of writers who are bringing together reformism and idealism in a way […]
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TAP Talks with Lilly Ledbetter
The Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear overturned decades of employment-law precedent. Congress is considering legislation this week that would reverse the decision and help end discriminatory pay practices.
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INTRODUCING… THE KEN LAY CHAIR IN ECONOMICS.
Back in 1991, nearly a decade before the Enron scandal broke, Kenneth Lay donated $1.1 million to his (and my) alma mater, the University of Missouri, to endow a chair in economics in his name. After many years and a legal battle (in which he tried to get the money back to pay his legal […]
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RE: UNCOMFORTABLE?
Just to clarify, I don’t agree with Douthat that Aliza Shvarts‘s kinda-hoaxy abortion art project raises uncomfortable questions for pro-choicers. Scott makes a good point that this art project should raise the question of whether anti-choicers believe a woman should be punished, along with her doctor, for obtaining an abortion, but I just don’t believe […]
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Listening to Iraq
The news coverage of the Iraq War almost always ignores the daily lives of ordinary Iraqis. Seeking out those personal stories could help us understand the war’s human cost.
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RE: ANTI-CHOICE PLATES.
To add to Dana‘s post on “Choose Life” license plates, it’s also interesting that in Florida, the money raised can only go toward women who choose to carry their pregnancies to term and give up the child for adoption. And because most women faced with an unplanned pregnancy choose to either have an abortion or […]
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CONTRACEPTION AND SACRIFICE.
To jump into the conversation Dana started about male contraception, I have to echo what she says (in response to Matt) about female hormonal contraception being no picnic in the park, either. Awhile ago, over at Feministing, I wrote a post responding to a Gizmodo writer who was freaked out by the idea of a […]
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THE ECONOMY: ALL SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS.
… and smiley faces, apparently. This is the graphic the National Review chose to promote Larry Kudlow‘s defense of Bush‘s “confidence” in the economy: Yeah, why not optimism? –Ann Friedman
