On this week’s podcast from The American Prospect: Monica Potts, Jamelle Bouie, and Mark Schmitt talk about Obama‘s speech on Giffords — and Palin‘s. Listen Now: To download the mp3 directly, click here. Also, if you just want the RSS feed, it’s here. We’re on iTunes! Click “subscribe” to the right to get TAP’s Take […]
Gabriel Arana
Gabriel Arana is a contributing editor at The American Prospect. His articles on gay rights, immigration, and media have appeared in publications including The New Republic, The Nation, Salon, The Advocate, and The Daily Beast.
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Wisconsin to Make Voting as Painful as a Trip to the DMV.
From the look of it, there is simply no time to lose in Wisconsin to pass the most draconian and disenfranchising voter-identification law in the country (it surpasses even an extremely controversial Indiana law that requires voters to present government-issued photo ID). The new Republican governor in what’s now an all-red state — all three […]
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The Little Picture: The Verizon iPhone.
(Flickr/jfingas) The iPhone. Today, Verizon announced it would begin providing support for iPhone; previously, only AT&T users were able to receive service on an iPhone.
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TAP vs. National Review on Bloggingheads.
Executive Editor Executive Editor Mark Schmitt faces off with National Review‘s Daniel Foster on bloggingheads.tv about the Giffords shooting and the state of political discourse.
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The Little Picture: Fighting Violence With Violence?
(Twitter/StopBeck) A screen grab of Glenn Beck‘s website, in which the Fox News commentator calls for an end to violence with a photo of Beck holding a gun in the left-hand margin.
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The Little Picture: O’Really?
(Flickr/spellingwitch) Fox host Bill O’Reilly. Today, President Obama agreed to be interviewed by the right-wing personality in a Super Bowl pregame segment.
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TAP’s Take: Fraud Politics.
On this week’s podcast from The American Prospect: Monica Potts, Jamelle Bouie, and Tova Wang discuss Republican-backed attempts to pass voter-ID laws and how they end up disenfranchising poor and minority voters. Listen Now: To download the mp3 directly, click here. Also, if you just want the RSS feed, it’s here. Articles mentioned in this […]
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The Little Picture: Word Banning.
(Flickr/velo_city) A display of Mark Twain‘s Huckleberry Finn at the Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal, Missouri. Next month, NewSouth Books will release an edition of the book that replaces “the ‘n’ word” with “slave.”
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The Little Picture: ‘Cuz We Have to Pay for Stuff We Buy.
(Flickr/soukup) A sign from Jon Stewart‘s “Rally to Restore Sanity” in November. A recent poll found that 61 percent of Americans favor increasing taxes on the wealthy.
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Best of TAP 2010: Bouie’s Review of American Taliban.
The mark of a good journalist is the acuity — and intellectual honesty — to identify propaganda wherever it’s coming from, and that’s why one of my favorite pieces this year was Jamelle Bouie‘s Homegrown Mujahideen, which took on Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas for his hyperbolic comparison of the religious right in America to […]