Courtney Martin says it’s easy to point fingers and call out conservative racism, but the progressive community has a long way to go, too. It’s not just Tea Partiers who are the problem here. A report released this summer by the Leadership Learning Community, a national nonprofit that focuses on leadership development, calls into question […]
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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The Peter Principle.
Tim Fernholz says Republicans have found the perfect spokesman for a substance-free election. Despite these missteps, Republicans will certainly gain seats this fall, not on account of their vision but because of broad dissatisfaction with the economy. If Democrats manage to cling to their majority, it will be because Sessions’ Democratic counterpart, Rep. Chris Van […]
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The Warren Retort.
Tim Fernholz explores the story behind Elizabeth Warren’s new job — and what it means for progressives. Progressives have hailed Elizabeth Warren as a dogged consumer advocate, unafraid to speak truth to power, but on the right and among business interests, she is considered, somewhat absurdly, a threat to the free market. For centrists and […]
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The Occupation Comes Home.
Gershom Gorenberg says ruling the West Bank continues to corrode Israeli society. Since the 1980s, religious Zionists have also been gradually taking the place of Israel’s old secular elite in the army’s combat units and officer corps. A key element in the shift is a set of religious academies where young men can spend a […]
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The Little Picture: Comic Education.
(Courtesy of Ethan Persoff) An excerpt from a 2001 U.S. Army training guide on the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Today, Sen. Harry Reid scheduled a vote to repeal the ban on gays for Tuesday of next week.
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TAP’s Take: Bill Gates and Big Aid.
On this week’s podcast from The American Prospect, Ann Friedman, Dayo Olopade, and Dana Goldstein talk about the Prospect‘s October cover story on the Gates Foundation and whether spending money — and lots of it — is really the best way to change the world. Listen Now: To download the mp3 directly, click here. Articles […]
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Neither Shrinking Nor Rethinking.
Matthew Yglesias says the Defense Department’s announcement on reining in defense spending outlined efforts that aren’t nearly as substantive as they need to be: Gates aims to change that, and Tuesday he promised to establish a new program that would change incentives for contractors over the longer term by giving special preference for bids from […]
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Bigotry Boot Camp
With the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” in sight, we can acknowledge it never protected soldiers. It just promoted prejudice.
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The Little Picture: Economy on the Brink.
The cover of The Wall Street Journal September 15, 2008. Two years ago today, the economy teetered on the brink of collapse as the nation’s largest financial institutions began to fail.
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Fin Reg Goes International.
Tim Fernholz says Basel III is a tough new international regime, a rare sign of optimism in the battle with the banks: When the market crashed, the limits of those standards became apparent: Suddenly, reserves were worthless. Liabilities increased as debts that hadn’t been counted in the ratio were called in. Banks across the financial […]
