Even if the courts rule that SB 1070 should not go into effect next week, the Obama administration has failed.
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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Tuesday Twitter Talk: Affirmative Action.
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Tuesday Twitter Talk: Abuse of Power.
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NOM’s Maggie Gallagher for Big Government.
In response to last week’s court ruling striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages performed in the states, anti-gay-marriage crusader Maggie Gallagher predictably called the proceedings a “sham trial” and the judge’s decision a “moral outrage” and “intellectually absurd.” Which is what Gallagher seems to […]
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Will SB 1070 Go Into Effect on July 29?
In response to the Justice Department’s lawsuit [PDF] against Arizona and similar challenges from various civil-rights groups and law-enforcement agencies, Adam and I have noted that for all the outcry over its potential for civil-rights violations, the legal challenges to SB 1070 center around whether the state is pre-empting the federal government’s constitutional authority to […]
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Tuesday Twitter Talk: Sports Fatigue.
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Blame-the-Teacher Bandwagon.
As the National Education Association wraps up its annual meeting today in New Orleans, the rift between the Obama administration and the teachers unions is becoming ever more apparent. As the Times reports, this year’s meeting included no token speaker from the Department of Education, which has sparked disagreement from the unions over programs like […]
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The TAP Five.
The five TAP pieces that have made a stir around the web this week. “A Guide to the Kagan Smears“ “Sargent on Weigel“ “The Obama Era’s Climate Fight“ “Chait Bait: World Cup As Popular As World Series“ “Another Culture War? No Thanks“
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The Little Picture: Legal Women.
Elena Kagan when she was dean of Harvard Law School, seated next to Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice of the Supreme Court, October 2008. Kagan completed her Senate testimony for her Supreme Court nomination this week. (Flickr/The Harvard Law Record)
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Expanding the Reach of Gay Cinema.
Annie Tsao talks to the founder of Wolfe Video, the largest distributor of gay and lesbian films in North America. What is your take on the state of gay and lesbian representation in the media, and how do you envision it changing in the future? You know, the fact that we’ve had success doesn’t represent […]
