When an employee blows his top, the company is often the one to blame.
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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TAP’s Take: In Memoriam (Now Available on iTunes!).
On this week’s podcast from The American Prospect, Monica Potts, Tim Fernholz, and Jamelle Bouie discuss what Tuesday’s primaries augur for the future and whether far-left loonies are ruining the Obama presidency. Listen Now: To download the mp3 directly, click here. We’re now on iTunes! Click “subscribe” to the right to get TAP’s Take automatically […]
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Prop. 8: Shame in Perpetuity.
Today’s decision striking down Proposition 8 in the federal court challenge to California’s gay-marriage ban is a morale boost for same-sex-marriage supporters who’ve seen stinging defeats in Maine and New York over the past year. But the celebration will be short-lived. Prop. 8 supporters already have an appeal ready, so the fate of marriage equality […]
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Prop. 8 Decision Won’t Necessarily Be a Slam Dunk.
Today, everyone’s waiting for Judge Vaughn Walker to hand down his decision in the Prop. 8 case — the federal challenge to California’s gay-marriage ban. Conventional wisdom is that he’ll overturn the ban. However, Walker’s ruling won’t necessarily be a slam dunk for gay rights. The judge is bound by precedent and his decision needs […]
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Tuesday Twitter Talk: Talking Food.
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Does “D.C.” Need Another Nickname?
The Washington Post has a story lamenting D.C.’s lack of a cool nickname and announcing one that’s catching on: DMV, an acronym for the “District,” Maryland, and Virginia, the city and suburbs that make up the metropolitan area. This of course is already an acronym for the Department of Motor Vehicles, which you can either […]
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In SB 1070 Ruling, a Minor Win for Obama.
Today, Judge Susan Bolton stopped [PDF] the most controversial provisions of Arizona’s immigration-enforcement law, SB 1070, from going into effect but declined to put the entire law on hold as the Obama Justice Department had requested. In a 38-page ruling, Judge Bolton let stand most of the law’s 13 sections but found that certain provisions […]
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Send 10,000 National Guardsmen to Disneyland Instead.
Edward Schumacher-Matos has an op-ed in The Washington Post blaming the “extremists” who run the immigration debate for the deaths of illegal immigrants in the Arizona desert: [Border-enforcement proponents have] the louder voice today, making [them] the bigger culprit, but the latter — humanitarian groups, for one — share in the blame. They seem not […]
