The Editors

Welcome to our second installment of “Ask a Feminist,” in which our own Dana Goldstein and Ann Friedman address a topic in the news related to gender and feminism. Today’s episode features a question from Matt Yglesias: “Is it sexist to say the financial crisis was caused by men?” Please email questions for future episodes […]

Our editor Mark Schmitt recently discussed torture and the law with Will Wilkinson of the Cato Institute on Bloggingheads. In this clip, the two consider the role of empathy in legal judgments. Watch the whole thing here. — —The Editors

Yesterday marked the 55th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that desegregated schools. But over half a century later, are our schools really integrated? Dana Goldstein reflects on how a new type of school choice could increase diversity without privatizing the public system. And today, Barack Obama meets with […]

Watch our own Ann Friedman discuss all of these things over at CNN today at 12:15 p.m. as part of “The Blogger Bunch.” Unfortunately, the Web chat will not open with Brady-style credits. —The Editors

At the New Yorker‘s “Next 100 Days” summit held earlier this month, our own Robert Kuttner chatted with McCain campaign adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin and the Quadrangle Group’s Joshua Steiner about the state of the U.S. economy. Reasons to tune in: Kuttner and Holtz-Eakin agree more frequently than we expect, and panel moderator James Suroweicki is […]

Not content just to be unpopular, Dick Cheney recently made it his goal to become inescapable. The former vice president is popping up all over television in a bid to scrub his name (and simultaneously discredit the Obama administration). What’s the motivator behind this doomed public-relations crusade? Terence Samuel offers one potential answer. And somewhat […]

Imagine if the Prospect were edited by multiple women — what sort of content would we produce? Why, exactly the same material we publish every day. So, the Double X argument that there’s an explicit need for a Slate “edited by three women” doesn’t exactly hold water. Ann Friedman explains why women-targeted web Sites can […]

How are religious leaders reacting to findings that evangelicals have permissive attitudes toward torture? Does religion play a harmful role in the military? And how is the Notre Dame commencement controversy shaping the abortion-reduction debate? In her weekly column about religion and politics, Sarah Posner considers all of these questions. As always, subscribe to our […]

As mentioned earlier, Adam Serwer will be providing commentary from today’s torture hearings. You can either follow him on Twitter* to get his real-time insights, or you can keep track of the conversation here: Torture Hearings *Which you should be doing already. Ditto *Which you should be doing already. Ditto Dana Goldstein and Tim Fernholz. […]