TREND-SPOTTING, BRIT-STYLE. Never mind that The Economist’s cover story this week was the lead story in TAP about two months ago. With a circulation that’s considerably, ahem, larger than ours, the British publication will score more global attention for its coverage of the U.S.’s “new” left-leaning trend, which seems to be all but widely accepted […]
Elisabeth Zerofsky
Elisabeth Zerofsky is a former Prospect editorial intern.
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Out of the Fringe and Into the Spotlight
Independent artists are using festivals like Capital Fringe to push political theater — and their pet issues — into the mainstream.
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BUSH: LESS POPULAR THAN STALIN.
BUSH: LESS POPULAR THAN STALIN. Whenever I see approval ratings for President Bush, I always think of a Harper’s Index stat printed in January of 2006 that compared Bush’s popularity among Americans to Stalin‘s popularity among Russians. Of course, that statistic was printed 18 months ago, when the two ratings were neck-in-neck at 37%. So […]
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HRC AND THE SINGLE GIRL.
HRC AND THE SINGLE GIRL. David Brooks‘ latest sociological diagnosis ought probably to be laid to rest on the pages of this blog, but I couldn’t resist pointing out the providential correlation between Brooks’ new lone rangers and Hillary Clinton’s staunchest demographic of supporters among the female electorate. As Judith Warner wrote last month in […]
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MEN AND WOMEN ARE EQUAL, WHEREAS THEY ARE NOT.
MEN AND WOMEN ARE EQUAL, WHEREAS THEY ARE NOT. The creative use of English grammar on the official Web site of Iran’s supreme leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei makes navigating such side-bar categories as Suggestions and Viewpoints tricky. Then again, a taste for unintelligibility may be beneficial for the Ayatollah when it comes to discussing women’s […]
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REMITTANCES AND MIGRATION.
REMITTANCES AND MIGRATION. The findings come too late to be relevant to the now-stalled immigration reform push here in the U.S., but the news is still important, particularly to some European countries that may have similar efforts on the horizon: Women, and especially girls, are the greatest beneficiaries of remittances sent home by some 200 […]
