The Editors

This week on the FundamentaList, Sarah Posner confronts John McCain‘s ties to neoconservatism via his relationship with pastor John Hagee: Rest assured McCain will not reject and repudiate the whole Hagee package. Hagee has too big a following and is too connected with the neoconservative foreign policy brain trust for McCain to risk alienating. The […]

From our March issue, Barbara Dreyfuss examines the implications for states that have turned to gambling as an answer to their economic woes: While gambling supporters argue that casinos are always an economic boon for a region, research indicates otherwise. With the exception of Las Vegas and Atlantic City, studies show that for many casinos, […]

In today’s TAP Online, Anabel Lee reports on how a proposal from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to narrow the interpretation of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) puts immigrant women abused by their citizen or permanent resident spouses in peril: The anticipated policy change will affect undocumented women who entered the U.S. without permission […]

Greg Anrig reads Newt Gingrich‘s new tome, for Real Change. Turns out it’s the same old failed Contract with America: The central theme of Gingrich’s book, just as it has been throughout his political career, is that “bureaucracy” predisposes government to fail, in contrast to an inherently more effective and efficient private sector … Gingrich […]

But never fear — your trusty TAP crew is fully up-to-date on the final season The Wire and have part three of our season five dialogue for your reading pleasure. If you’ve missed out, read the previous WireTAPs on episodes one, two, and three, and four, five, and six. Check back next Friday for a […]

Catch TAP‘s Sarah Posner on Democracy Now tomorrow, talking about her new book, God’s Profits, and about McCain‘s cozy relationship with John Hagee. And more! Click here to find a local station, or to listen through the website tomorrow. Also check out this week’s FundamentaList. –The Editors

Simon Lazarus and Harper Jean Tobin explore Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia‘s decades-long quest to not only deregulate industry, but immunize companies from torts at both the state and federal level: This past two weeks, Justice Scalia and his fellow conservatives on the Supreme Court could be seen merrily shooting at regulatory targets on both […]

Ezra Klein argues that the only way for Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination is to convince the superdelegates that Barack Obama would be a disaster in the general election: To convince them to do so, she’ll need to fatally wound Obama. But attacking that ferociously will destroy her candidacy, too, and infuriate superdelegates […]

Richard Yeselson responds to John Judis‘ TNR essay, “American Adam”: I think Judis has written a brilliantly productive misreading of Obama. Rather than escape the past, Obama wishes, as, the critic and literary historian Van Wyck Brooks put it in 1918, to find a “usable past” in American ideals of equality, justice, and fraternity. These […]

Paul Waldman on what the current attacks on Obama tell us about the upcoming general election: Listen to the McCain campaign, and you’ll hear that they intend only to engage in a debate about “issues,” one that will elevate the discourse and offer voters an opportunity to make a reasoned, considered decision about the future […]