The Editors

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: UNTRUTH IN ADVERTISING. Folks may have noticed (and plenty of readers have made clear they’ve noticed) the Feminists for Life ad that’s been running, on and off, here on the TAP website the last couple of weeks. As policy TAP Online doesn’t apply ideological criteria in accepting or rejecting advertisers, and […]

FROM THE DECEMBER PRINT ISSUE: A LIBERAL MANIFESTO. Recently, Tony Judt wrote a piece for the London Review of Books entitled “Bush’s Useful Idiots,” which charged American liberals — not “some” or “too many” American liberals, simply “American liberals” — with “acquiesc[ing] in President Bush‘s catastrophic foreign policy.” The essay caused a big stir — […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: CURT’S NEW HURT. Laura Rozen, who’s been on the Curt Weldon beat for a while now, brings us up to date on the current FBI investigation into Weldon and his daughter, and ruminates on possible explanations for the Justice Department’s recent interest in the relationship. Guess who comes up? But […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: CENTER-LEFT FOREIGN POLICY RUMBLE. In the October print issue of the Prospect, James Lindsay reviewed two new books purporting to offer alternative foreign policy visions to both neoconservatism and “liberal hawk” interventionism — Michael Lind‘s The American Way of Strategy and Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman‘s Ethical Realism. Today, the […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: PROBLEM POLITICS. Harold Meyerson writes about the GOP’s penchant for ignoring real problems while concocting fake ones for political purposes. In the latter vein, he recounts a kooky subcommittee hearing in September discussing the dangers of “mixed unions”: On September 28th, Texas Republican Sam Johnson (who regularly introduces legislation to […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: WAITING FOR BARACK. Draft Obama for ’08? Ezra says wait for the guy to actually step up and lead first. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: TACTICAL RETREAT. Matt‘s happy to hear the news that the U.S. military may finally be getting serious about counterinsurgency doctrine. But he hopes this newfound commitment won’t be taken by anybody — not the military, not policymakers, not the public — as the end-all and be-all of lessons learned from […]

HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY. Tapped is off duty today, but will resume regular posting tomorrow (Tuesday). –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: JUDGED DRED. Scott Lemieux assesses Mark Graber‘s new book on the Dred Scott case, and considers its lingering shadow over subsequent constitutional debates: Graber�s analysis gives us at least two lessons that are relevant to contemporary debates. The first is that, because of the symbolic significance of its opinions, the […]