The Editors

HELP EZRA HELP US ALL. ‘Tis the season for liberal magazine fundraising drives. This month we’ve been running a donation campaign through our weekly email subscriber list to raise funds for our writing fellow program and other projects here at the Prospect. And we wanted to make sure Tapped readers got a chance to kick […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: THE FORTUNE COOKIE GAME. Matt intervenes in the ongoing democracy debate. To Matt, democracy, human rights, liberal reforms — they’re all great. The real issue isn’t the policy objective, but the method of achieving it: There’s a game that kids (and, OK, me too) like to play with the fortune […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: SCHOOL’S OUT. You may have caught the new round of debate over the efficacy of homework. Conor Clarke explains both why the homework critics may indeed be correct, but also why this debate, just like most other arguments over education policy as such, matters less than one might think. –The […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: W AND THE TB-GB’S. James Crabtree tells the tale of the “curry house coup” that has brought down Tony Blair, laying out how the “Bush‘s poodle” factor influenced events and why Lebanon may have been the tipping point. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: HUFF’S FLUFF. Dana Goldstein is more than a little disappointed that Arianna Huffington‘s new book, On Becoming Fearless, is actually quite timid. –The Editors

ROSE RESPONDS. See Steve Rose‘s newly published response to his tough crowd of critics in our debate on the middle class; Larry Mishel will have his second-round thoughts posted early next week. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: THE ACTIVISM INDUSTRY. Dana Fisher, author of the new book Activism, Inc., argues that the left’s model of outsourced grassroots canvassing weakens progressive politics in America. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: COLD CASE? The New Jersey Senate race is getting mighty ugly, with a Republican U.S. prosecutor opening an investigation into property leased by Bob Menendez and Democrats whispering about dropping the candidate. How strong are the ethics charges? Midterm Madness‘s own Thurmon Hart takes a look. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: TOO MUCH INFORMATION. Since the president and his team are going on the offensive once again in touting their tough security posture in the war on terror, it’s worth emphasizing a point: Moral qualms aside, pervasive surveillance and torture don’t actually serve as effective investigative techniques, as Matt reminds us […]