The Editors

TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. If you haven’t already, check out today’s stories on the site: As another preview from the June print issue (free to non-subscribers), Garance discusses the fast journey of a new pop-culture morality tale — “star says something biased and is forced to prostrate himself in apology and leave the public stage” […]

TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. We feature two pieces on Iran policy today: As a preview from the June print issue, free to non-subscribers, Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations explains why, for the United States, “normalization of relations as a means of regulating Iranian power is not the most viable option; it is […]

TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. Who doesn’t like a good vacation? Today, Courtney Martin tells us about the lamentable death of vacation in the United States: As much as you may have resented it then, the family vacation is as quintessentially American as homemade apple pie. It is also just about as rare in this age […]

TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. Tracie McMillan reads novelist Barbara Kingsolver‘s new nonfiction book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. She likes it, but thinks it too often typifies the trouble with food politics: Extolling the virtues of local food, cooking from scratch, and analyzing the food supply chain — lessons at the heart […]

EVENT: GETTING REAL ABOUT FAMILIES. Next Thursday, TAP, along with the Economic Policy Institute, is sponsoring a forum, Getting Real About Families. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), a senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee and the sponsor of the Healthy Families Act, will be the keynote speaker. Heidi Hartmann will present a paper outlining a comprehensive […]

CHOLESTER-OIL. Rina Palta, who wrote today’s article about animal-fat biofuels, sent in the following update to her piece: Rep. Lloyd Doggett‘s new piece of legislation preventing ConocoPhillips from claiming a renewable diesel tax credit has 50 cosponsors so far. At a press conference this afternoon, he introduced the bill — which he’s calling the “Responsible […]

TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. Reporting from Iraqi Kurdistan, Jason Motlagh notes that the fight over Kirkuk — and its oil — threatens to derail the region’s relative stability. The Kurdish region may, however, be hostage to its own ambitions, and set on a collision course with troubles it has so far managed to avoid. The […]

TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. Why do some poor neighborhoods cohere while others fall apart? Academics who’ve gone block by block through inner-city America have concluded that community organization is one key factor. From our May print issue (but free to non-subscribers), Eyal Press reports on the impact of “collective efficacy” in poor neighborhoods — what […]

TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. Iraqi exile Kanan Makiya was key to convincing many prominent liberal interventionists to support the war. Now the majority of them acknowledge that invading Iraq was a disastrous decision, but Makiya remains unchanged. “To apologize is to say the position one took in good faith is wrong. I refuse to engage […]

TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. In the run-up to his confirmation as chief justice, John Roberts claimed that he would bring harmony and consensus to the Supreme Court. Today, in a story from our May print issue, Simon Lazarus shows how Roberts has had the exact opposite effect: And yet, the Roberts Court’s actual performance draws […]