The Editors

EVENT: FAILURE OF CONSERVATISM CONFERENCE. The Prospect and the Campaign for America’s Future are co-sponsoring a conference tomorrow on the Failure of Conservatism. In addition to a great roster of speakers, the main event will be a luncheon debate between TAP co-editor Robert Kuttner and the Weekly Standard‘s Bill Kristol on whether conservatives can be […]

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: THEY KNOW BEST. Scott discusses Melody Rose‘s book on abortion law, the rise of paternalism in Supreme Court doctrine on the issue, and the stakes of Carhart II. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: ROSIE THE RIVETER. With Rosie O’Donnell‘s imminent departure from The View, right-wing cable news guys are losing their favorite punching bag. Jennifer L. Pozner explains why they were so upset by Rosie in the first place: Despite their dominance over the journalistic landscape, the overwhelmingly male punditocracy were so threatened […]

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: SURVIVAL PLAN. Maggie Mahar discusses the proposals of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPac) to rein in the program’s ballooning costs. As Mahar argues, the measures aren’t merely necessary for Medicare’s survival — they will be crucial components of any national health-care reform plan. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ONLINE: HEDGING DISASTER. Robert Kuttner lays out the trouble with hedge funds. –The Editors

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: HEALTH IN BLACK AND WHITE. This week, The New York Times ran a front-page story on a recent uptick in infant mortality in the South — particularly among African Americans. The news offered a glimpse of the largely under-appreciated phenomenon of racial and socioeconomic disparities in health. Now, in a lengthy […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: LAW AND REVULSION. Cynthia Gorney, who has done a lot of reporting on the abortion wars and on “partial-birth” abortion in particular, explains that, in order to understand the ramifications of last week’s ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart, you have to understand certain details about this specific abortion method. Once […]

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: THE AWFUL TRUTH. Following up Scott and Ezra, Terence Samuel writes about Harry Reid and why he makes the Broders in town so upset: Indeed, let us ponder this “ineptitude” charge a bit further, as it’s come up before in discussion of Reid by elite commentators. Reid led the Democrats back […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: UNIONS GONE GLOBAL. Harold reports on the proposed merger between the United Steelworkers and two of Britain’s largest unions, which would create the first truly multinational trade union (and the planet’s largest union period). As Harold says, “The story here, however, isn’t the number of members but the adaptation of […]

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: LESS MONEY, MO’ PROBLEMS. After 10 attempts to get a Congressional hearing about pay equity, Rep. Rosa DeLauro finally succeeded this year. Kay Steiger reports on the debate over whether we need a Paycheck Fairness Act. —The Editors