The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: GUNS, DRUGS, AND THE MASSACRE IN VIRGINIA. Robert Reich ponders the respective powers of the National Rifle Association and Big Pharma. —The Editors

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: IRSHAD MANJI’S FLYING LEAP. Madeleine Elfenbein describes the controversy sparked by Muslim dissident Irshad Manji. Tonight, as part of its “America at the Crossroads” series, PBS airs Manji’s documentary, “Faith Without Fear.” —The Editors

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. Lynn Paltrow explains how the Supreme Court’s ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart will affect every woman who becomes pregnant — not just those who decide to have an abortion. —The Editors

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: DIS-INEVITABILITY. Mike Tomasky does some speculating and number-crunching about the Democratic presidential primary: Three strong candidates, all with dedicated backing and none informally anointed by the party brass or donor base, is something the Democratic Party hasn’t seen in ages. One could say 1988, but even then, there weren’t really three […]

EVENT: SOLDIERS AND THE MEDIA. TAP senior editor Tara McKelvey will take part in a Harvard University forum, “Soldiers and the Media” (part of a three-day series on human rights). Saturday, April 21, 12 p.m. Barker Center for the Humanities, 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, Mass. Free and open to the public Renowned author Elaine Scarry […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: WHAT THE SENATORS SHOULD ASK. Mark Kleiman lays out the questions he’d like to hear today at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing featuring Alberto Gonzales. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: OUR ENEMY’S ENEMY. Al-Qaeda has increasingly been making some Sunni enemies in Iraq. Does that vindicate the “surge”? Hardly. As Marc Lynch discusses today, the most important recent development in Iraqi Sunni politics has been the spike in tensions between al-Qaeda and major insurgent factions. And this development actually bolsters […]

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: CITIES FOR SALE. Ben Adler reviews Jason Hackworth‘s new book, The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology and Development in American Urbanism: While The Neoliberal City is informative on the subject of privatization and corporate involvement in gentrification, it leaves the reader a bit puzzled. Hackworth only describes, he does not proscribe. So […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: SHOW ME THE AIR TIME. Now that the ’08 presidential hopefuls have annnounced their staggeringly high first-quarter fundraising totals, Marj Halperin suggests we should be looking at an approach that would really curb campaign spending: Free air time. —The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM? “Three times in my political adulthood,” Robert Kuttner writes, “we have seen the exhaustion of a conservative ideology and presidency .. And twice, the electorate ousted Republicans only to get centrist Democrats, who ran more competent administrations but did little to redress the structure of financial […]