The Editors

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: ISG FOLLIES. Two new pieces inspired by the Iraq Study Group report are now up: Peter Dreier notes the absurdity of Jim Baker — that Jim Baker — being recast as a noble bipartisan consensus-builder. And Matt lays out the cognitive dissonance on display in the ISG’s report — a dissonance […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: NO HOLY NIGHT. Reveling in the vast, left-wing anti-yuletide conspiracy, Brad Reed explores the possibilities for using the power of the newly Democratic Congress to kill Christmas for good. Here at TAP, we’ve got the non-denominational holiday spirit. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: THE INSURGENT. Minnesota reporter Conrad Wilson gives us a better look at Congressman-elect Keith Ellison. Check out Ellison’s description of his decision to snub a social invitation from President Bush in order to attend an AFL-CIO gathering: Ellison said there was little question in his mind as to which event […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: BORDER PATROL. Gershom Gorenberg writes about the Israeli education minister’s controversial new proposal to include the Green Line border in school textbook maps. For nearly 40 years, Israel has treated its own border the way Victorians treated sex: It shapes society, but explicitly portraying it violates respectable conventions. Those who […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: THE DREAM PALACE OF THE BUSHIES. For years we’ve heard about the pathologies afflicting Arab publics — the delusional thinking, the ideological rigidity. Blake, surveying the wreckage of U.S. policy in the Mid-East, notes that Arabs are hardly the only ones. –The Editors

YOU’RE WRONG, TOM. See what Matt has to say about Tom Edsall‘s column in the Saturday Times. — The Editors

CHEERS, TOM. Our own Tom Schaller is giving a public presentation today on his book, Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, at Duke University at 3 p.m. (not 2:30, as originally scheduled), in the Social Science Research Institute. If you can’t make it to Durham, you can watch Schaller’s appearance on […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: ARAB WINTER. Remember the “Arab Spring”? Matt takes us on a trip down memory lane. –The Editors

HOT OFF THE PRESSES: THE DECEMBER PRINT ISSUE. The latest print issue of the Prospect has dropped; you’ll want to check it out. Two of the pieces are available as free previews to non-subscribers: Tom delves further into the data illustrating the northern realignment that these elections consolidated, while Ezra offers up some ideas for […]

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: PARTIAL-BIRTH’S TROJAN HORSE. Scott tells us why the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision regarding the federal partial-birth abortion ban matters more than people think: If the Court overturns the health exemption, this will deal a body blow to Casey, giving states hostile to abortion much more leeway to legally harass doctors and […]