The Editors

Jonathan Hafetz, who helped coordinate the filing of more than twenty friend-of-the-court briefs in Boumediene v. Bush, has a commentary up on TAP Online today about Wednesday’s oral arguments: It could not be clearer that this administration will never provide the detainees at Guantanamo with a fair hearing unless the Supreme Court directly orders it […]

We’ve got two great political pieces up today. From our December issue, Tom asks what happened to the moderate Republicans: Jim Ramstad’s career provides a useful prism through which to view the Republicans’ disappearing moderate wing. Indeed, obscured by the incessant chronicles of the all-powerful evangelical movement or the arresting tactics of conservative kingmakers like […]

Paul Waldman asks why candidates aren’t talking about how corporate America treats its workforce: There is an ideology inherent in the way employers treat their workers, one reflected in the relative amounts of attention paid by the news media to labor issues and the ups and downs of the stock market. Wall Street, of course, […]

Dana has a piece up today from the December print issue on Ossining, New York’s attempt to close the achievement gap with race- and gender-focused programming: Nationwide, about half of black males drop out of high school. Of those who do make it to college, only 43 percent will graduate, compared with 63 percent of […]

Megan Tady reports on efforts to rehabilitate Iraq veterans via farming. —The Editors

Gershom Gorenberg contemplates the Israeli prime minister: Ehud Olmert has begun to fascinate me. Don’t misunderstand: I am completely innocent of ever voting for him. I have no intent of committing such an act in the future. Had fate not put me in a country of which Olmert is prime minister at a moment that […]

Robert Reich weighs in on whether telecoms deserve immunity. —The Editors

Why hasn’t this charmer with a perfect record on the right’s core social litmus tests not already wrapped up the Republican nomination? Why hasn’t this charmer with a perfect record on the right’s core social litmus tests not already wrapped up the Republican nomination? Sarah Posner responds: look no further than the uber-conservatives who are […]

You may have noticed the addition of our nifty Election ’08 button to campaign-related posts today. Instead of creating a separate election blog we decided to leave the discussion here on Tapped. Clicking the Election ’08 icon anywhere on the site will take you to our You may have noticed the addition of our nifty […]

Phoebe writes that self-help finance guru Suze Orman has had an epiphany: Lending institutions could use some regulation. Orman, who has held certification since 1986, champions personal responsibility. She is quick to chastise women who call in to the show confessing that their husbands handle the bills, and she regularly admonishes folks to get a […]