The Editors

Tom Schaller has already mentioned his story today on how the fight between Huckabee and Romney in Iowa could actually be a victory for a Republican who has stayed out of the battle. Sarah Posner also looks at what’s going on with Huckabee and Romney and the religious right in this week’s FundamentaList. Dana Goldstein […]

Along with Tom Schaller, our own Dana Goldstein is cavorting around Iowa. After a few days spent following John Edwards and his supporters, today she has a dispatch about how his populist message is playing with Iowa caucus-goers. Check it out. –The Editors

Adam Doster reviews two new books about the state of the labor movement. In their well-regarded 1998 book, Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies, labor experts Kate Bronfenbrenner and Tom Juravich found that labor unions’ strategies matter more than employers’ tactics when it comes to determining the success of organizing campaigns. Even workers […]

Brian Beutler lists the good, the bad and the ugly of the Democratic Congress’ year of trying to gavel the Bush administration into order. As the year draws to a close, it will be tempting for pundits — liberal and otherwise — to despair at the Democrats’ inability to wield their new congressional leadership to […]

Addie Stan discusses slain former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto‘s symbolic status: Still, neither Benazir Bhutto’s shortcomings, nor the alleged evil deeds ascribed to her, diminish the tragedy of her killing. For the women of South Asia, it is a tragedy that extends beyond Bhutto’s family and her country. However disappointing her lack of action […]

Robert Kuttner writes that it will take more than lower interest rates to see America through this perfect economic storm. Future historians are likely to look back on the final year of the Bush administration as a moment not unlike 1930, when government dithered while a financial crisis deepened. At every stage of this unfolding […]

A chorus of protesters with the Save the American Dream campaign dropped by a Goldman Sachs holiday party last week, where they sang the following song: Goldman, the Two-Faced i-Bank(to the tune of Rudolph, the Red-Nose Reindeer) You know Merrill and Morgan and Lehman and CitiJ.P. and Wamu and Bofa and Barclay’sBut do you recall?The […]

Dear Readers, Starting this afternoon, TAPPED is taking a break for the holidays. We’ll be posting occasionally, and will return at half-strength around Dec. 30, when Dana and Tom will start reporting from Iowa. You’ll get us all back on Jan. 2. In the meantime, catch up on your favorite columnists, read up on our […]

Both Kurds and Sunnis are pledging violence over the outcome of the Article 140 referendum on who will control northern Iraq, which was scheduled to take place before the end of the year. Spencer Ackerman reports: Mosul was fairly calm earlier this year as winter gave way to spring. Some nights at Forward Operating Base […]

Prospect co-editor Robert Kuttner talked with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin about presidential leadership: RK: Democrats, going back to Jimmy Carter, seem to have gotten stuck in a small-scale incremental mentality that doesn’t really inspire anybody. It’s not just a product of divided government because Carter had a big Democratic majority and Clinton started […]