JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: MAHAR WEIGHS IN. Maggie Mahar is the latest to contribute to the roundtable health care discussion kicked off by Ezra last month. Take a look. –The Editors
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POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: NEW GAME IN TOWN.
POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: NEW GAME IN TOWN. Robert Kuttner tells us about the new wind blowing in trade politics. –The Editors
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WAIT A MINUTE, MR. POSTMAN
WAIT A MINUTE, MR. POSTMAN. As part of our ongoing effort to better serve you, the TAP Online reader, we’ll be publishing a weekly round-up of responses to our web articles. This week, readers react to Harold‘s piece on Andy Stern, Matt‘s column on health care, and Erica Lipper‘s review of The Bastard of Istanbul. […]
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Letters
Doing Something Harold Meyerson’s recent column on SEIU president Andy Stern (“Organization Man,” 2/1/07) makes a compelling argument regarding Stern’s political effectiveness and his similarities to former UAW president Walter Reuther. But, to strengthen the comparison, Mr. Meyerson likens Reuther’s failed Alliance for Labor Action to the recently-formed Change to Win Federation, which — according […]
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POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: OUR BEST SHOT.
POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: OUR BEST SHOT. Ann reports on the debate over making the HPV vaccine mandatory for all sixth-grade girls. Missing from too much of the discussion, Ann says, is the question of funding; this vaccine is most important for low-income girls, but if states pass laws mandating the vaccine without ensuring the […]
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JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: ORGANIZATION MAN.
JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: ORGANIZATION MAN. The SEIU’s presidential primary-related programs; Americans Against Escalation; They Work For Us. Even with Change to Win something of a fizzle, Andy Stern remains liberalism’s most innovative architect. Harold makes the case. –The Editors
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JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: I DON’T LIKE SUNDAYS.
JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: I DON’T LIKE SUNDAYS. Mike calls on DC-based brie-eating NPR listeners across the area to rise up and protest WETA’s decision to drop Liane Hansen‘s Weekend Sunday Edition. –The Editors
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JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: APOCALYPSE HOW?
JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: APOCALYPSE HOW? Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael B. Oren have a dramatic new piece in TNR about the threat to Israel posed by a nuclear Iran. Rob offers a response today — suggesting that those hyping Iran’s nuke threat ought to engage more with the actual history of nuclear diplomacy. […]
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JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: FAIR TRADE.
JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: FAIR TRADE. Thomas Geoghegan has a swap in mind. He thinks the only hope for reviving the labor movement is to pass card check legislation. But what if you need to offer business something in return, so they don’t go to the mat to block passage of a card check […]
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POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: HEALTH CARE-APALOOZA!
POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: HEALTH CARE-APALOOZA! We’ve had a wave of health care coverage and commentary on the site recently (see all three TAP founders weigh in on Bush‘s health care proposal if you haven’t already). The wave continues today: Merrill Goozner and Jon Cohn add their two cents to the exchange, kicked off last […]