On Friday, June 23, we held our fifth Prospect breakfast, this one featuring conservative activist Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Among the guests were Michael Tomasky, Ezra Klein, and Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect; columnist Marie Cocco; Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News Service; Ari Berman of The Nation; Michael Scherer and […]
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HAPPY FOURTH. TAPPED…
HAPPY FOURTH. TAPPED will not be publishing on July 3 or July 4. See you back here on Wednesday! –The Editors
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Pelosi Speaks
On Friday, May 5, we held our fourth Prospect breakfast, this one featuring House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Among the guests were Michael Tomasky and Garance Franke-Ruta of The American Prospect; columnist Marie Cocco; Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News Service; Thomas Edsall of The Washington Post; Ari Berman and David Corn of The Nation; […]
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Pelosi Speaks
On Friday, May 5, we held our fourth Prospect breakfast, this one featuring House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Among the guests were Michael Tomasky and Garance Franke-Ruta of The American Prospect; columnist Marie Cocco; Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News Service; Thomas Edsall of The Washington Post; Ari Berman and David Corn of The Nation; […]
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DEBATING VOTE BY…
DEBATING VOTE BY MAIL. The Prospect put out a special report this month on Oregon’s system of all-mail voting, which is serving as a model for efforts to spread mail voting in other states across the country. We then invited six experts and advocates, including former Oregon secretary of state Phil Keisling and avowed mail-voting […]
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Vote By Mail: An Exchange
The American Prospect‘s May special report, “The New Ballot Box,” concerns Oregon’s vote by mail system and the spread of mail voting across the country. We invited six election law experts and advocates to respond to the report and to debate the merits of all-mail voting. What follows is the first round of the exchange, […]
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TAP IN THE…
TAP IN THE TIMES. Be sure to check out this charming front page profile today in The New York Times of Supreme Leader Mike Tomasky and the accompanying article about the debate heralded by his May cover story. –The Editors
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JUST POSTED ON TAP: THE POLITICS OF DEFINITION.* For those of you looking for some weekend reading, all four parts of �The Politics of Definition� by John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira are now available. The article draws some similar conclusions to those made by our fearless leader, Mike Tomasky, in our current cover article. *Okay, […]
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JUST POSTED ON TAP: THE OPTIONS FOR DARFUR. Mark �Fast Leon� Goldberg asks liberal hawks to not make the same mistakes with Darfur as they did with Iraq. –The Editors
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JUST POSTED ON TAP: THE POLITICS OF DEFINITION, PART II. John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira discuss progressive weaknesses in the latest installment of our series on closing the �identity gap.� –The Editors
