Joe Biden‘s stem cell remarks on Tuesday and the objurgatory exchange that followed between the two campaigns raised a valid question: what’s going on with this erstwhile issue-of-infinite-contention? It seems as though, within the context of the debate for federal embryonic stem cell funding, there are two parallel races currently in motion until November which […]
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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OBAMA’S CHALLENGE: ANYTHING BUT THE ECONOMY, STUPID.
Founding Editor Bob Kuttner is joining us on TAPPED with commentary about his new book, Obama’s Challenge: America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency, and on economic issues in the campaign. So now we understand what John McCain’s handlers were up to: Intensify the culture wars, and once again use cultural symbols […]
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SHORTER SARAH PALIN SPEECH.
Alaska! [Cut to baby] “Community organizers” suck. [Cut to baby] DRILL, BABY, DRILL! [Cut to baby] John McCain=American hero. [Cut to entire family onstage.] –Ann Friedman
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JUXTAPOSITION.
Peggy Noonan, in The Wall Street Journal today: Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American […]
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PALIN AND THE MEANING OF CHOICE.
Cara at The Curvature had a great post last week on how annoyed she was that antichoicers were portraying Sarah Palin‘s child with Down’s syndrome as a heroic choice on the part of the vice-presidential candidate. Cara writes, You know, it’s the anti-choicers who use “it’s not a choice, it’s a child” as a rallying […]
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McCain’s Sexist VP Pick
The GOP seems to think women will eagerly vote for any ticket that includes a member of their gender. That’s Republican tokenism and pandering at its worst.
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“THE SLUT VOTE”?
Via Matt, apparently National Review thinks Madonna represents “the slut vote.” (Madonna is speaking out against John McCain on her world tour, which kicked off this weekend.) Where has K-Lo been for the past decade and a half? Calling Madonna a whore is sooo 1993. (Circa her Sex book, Body of Evidence, and “Human Nature.”) […]
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WHY MADDOW MATTERS.
At the Plank, Sacha Zimmerman frets that Rachel Maddow is a harbinger of an era of biased, partisan news: I really like Maddow and have found her thoroughly compelling throughout this latest campaign season, but I am not so thrilled about this trend toward partisan networks and news. By all means we should have progressive […]
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HILLARY SUPPORTERS AND SEBELIUS.
I think Dana is right that it would be fascinating to see the reaction to a Sebelius pick for VP. I’m of the opinion that most former Hillary Clinton backers would be happy to see a woman on the ticket. As TAP contributor Addie Stan wrote last month at HuffPo: But the notion that voters […]
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The Generation Trap
Today’s social-justice activists start with very different conditions than those that existed in the 1960s.