Gabriel Arana

(Flickr/Splorp) The Sony Walkman. Today, Sony announced it would no longer produce the audiotape player, which first went on sale July 1, 1979.

(Flickr/Laura Padgett) The dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Today, an Italian court denied a request from the Vatican to release a hold on $30 million in its bank account that was placed after the bank was accused of failing to comply with international money-laundering rules.

(Flickr/Center for American Progress) Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer at the Center for American Progress. Despite a largely successful attempt to rehabilitate his public image after being caught in a prostitution sting — including getting his own talk show on CNN — Spitzer was shown the door by the Harvard Club of New York […]

Adam makes a great point about the Obama administration’s duty to defend “don’t ask, don’t tell” in court — one many of us who have been calling on the administration not to defend the discriminatory law have glossed over: I think it’s perfectly valid to argue, as former Solicitor General Paul Clement has, that the […]

On this week’s podcast from The American Prospect: Tim Fernholz, Monica Potts, and Jamelle Bouie discuss Virginia Thomas’ call to Anita Hill asking that she apologize for accusing her husband of sexual harassment, and the recent revelation that banks are buying up unpaid property-tax debt and going after consumers. Listen Now: To download the mp3 […]

So today, thanks to an emergency request from the Obama administration, “don’t ask, don’t tell” has been reinstated. Last week a federal court ordered the administration to stop enforcing the military policy immediately. In accordance with the court’s order, the military instructed its members to stop any ongoing investigations and discharges, and the Pentagon had […]

(Flickr/Ryan J. Reilly) Attorney General Eric Holder. Today, the Justice Department asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstitute the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which a lower-court judge enjoined.

Comedian Stephen Colbert walks off The View set in jest, recalling an earlier incident this week during which hosts Whoopie Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the set when Bill O’Reilly said, “Muslims killed us on 9/11.”

(Flickr/Center for Image in Science and Art) An artistic representation of the Mandelbrot set, a fractal arising from the equation zn+1 = zn2 + c. It is named after mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who died in Cambridge late last week.