The Editors

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: TIME TO PLAY FOR KEEPS. In his column this week, Mike discusses what Carhart II tells us about how Democrats should approach judicial confirmation hearings. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: THE DEMOCRACY OF EVIL. Sasha Abramsky reviews The Lucifer Effect, the long-awaited book by psychologist Philip Zimbardo, creator of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment. Zimbardo has finally been prompted to write his first-person account of the SPE, as he calls it, by the specter of Abu Ghraib, and the shattering […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: OFFERING THE YOUNG A NEW DEAL. Our own Paul Starr calls for a renewed social investment in young people who feel many of the major forces affecting the economy today most acutely, from the cost of college to stagnant wages to health care coverage to work/family balance. Over at Freedom’s […]

SAVE SMALL MAGAZINES… LIKE THIS ONE. The U.S. Postal Service is considering a new rate plan that would burden smaller publishers (like The American Prospect, as well as other great publications like Mother Jones, The Washington Monthly, The Nation, etc.) with higher postage rates while unfairly locking in the best prices for the largest media […]

JUST RELEASED: THE MAY PRINT ISSUE. The new print issue of the Prospect has come out — take a look. Mike Tomasky‘s cover story, “What Rudy Believes” (available for free to non-subscribers), draws from his years as a journalist covering New York politics to tease out the common threads of Rudy Giuliani‘s political career and […]

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: THE FAILURE OF PLAN COLOMBIA. In a lengthy dispatch from Colombia, Jens Erik Gould conveys the failure of the U.S.’s multi-billion-dollar coca-eradication campaign in that country. The piece begins: If it weren’t for the modern-day logos on some of the men’s T-shirts, a snapshot of the Colombian village of La Balsa […]

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: ADMISSION IMPOSSIBLE? It’s harder than ever to get into the top colleges, right? Not really, says Kevin Carey, who explains the statistical mistake — the confusion between the number of college applicants and the number of college applications — that launches a thousand scare pieces in newspapers every spring. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: PRIVATIZING AND PROFITEERING. Robert Kuttner points out that the myriad problems with the private student loan industry illustrate why “it is often more efficient and less corrupting for government to do the public’s business directly.” —The Editors

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: WINNING THE PEACE. Reporting from Tel Aviv, Terence Samuel writes that it’s clear there will be no true “mission accomplished” moment in Iraq. The Bush administration had best begin taking note that the conflicts in the Middle East will only be resolved through negotiations. The volatile politics of the Middle East […]