(Flickr/theqspeaks) Rep. Michele Bachmann, who said in a speech over the weekend that while slavery had been a “scourge,” the framers of the Constitution “worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.”
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 Little Picture: A Media Intervention.
(Flickr/siobh.ie) French reporters from France24 watch as Sarah Palin and John McCain concede the 2008 election. Today, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank called for various media outlets not to mention Palin for the month of February.
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TAP’s Take: The ACA Job-Killing Repeal Bill Act Podcast.
On this week’s podcast from The American Prospect: Jamelle Bouie, Monica Potts, and Gabriel Arana talk about black and Hispanic assimilation, and the GOP health-care repeal vote. 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 […]
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The Little Picture: Google’s Shake-Up.
(Flickr/Jolie Odell) Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who resigned today and will be replaced by Larry Page, one of the company’s co-founders.
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Redefining Marriage
Nothing said in the public debate over marriage seems to touch on what it actually means.
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The Little Picture: Power Gang.
(Courtesy of Jamelle Bouie) John Larson, Nancy Pelosi, Jim Clyburn, and Rosa Delauro with reporters at an event today on the health-care repeal law.
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The Little Picture: Michael Reagan.
(Flickr/tswartz) Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan‘s son. For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Reagan wrote an op-ed at Fox News claiming his father was “more of a friend of blacks than Obama.”
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Supreme Court Rejects D.C. Gay-Marriage Appeal.
According to the Associated Press, the Supreme Court has rejected an appeal to D.C.’s gay-marriage law brought by Maryland Bishop Harry Jackson. Jackson had sued the district’s Board of Elections and Ethics for blocking a public referendum on the issue, which the board — and the D.C. courts — said violated the city’s Human Rights […]
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Another Op’nin, Another Show.
Hey, TAPPED readers. My name is Dara Lind and I’ll be providing guest-blogging services for this (MLK Day-shortened) week. Psyched to be here. By way of introducing myself: By upbringing, I’m a New York Yankees fan, secular Jew, and Cincinnatian — in that order. I’m now living in D.C., where I work for an immigration […]
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The Little Picture: Repealing the ACA.
(Flickr/Steven Rhodes) A woman protesting at Blue Shield in California. Republicans have scheduled a largely symbolic repeal vote of the Affordable Care Act for next week.