Washington is a city of microcultures with major power. At first glance, its C-SPAN-ready inhabitants may all look alike, but over time you learn to distinguish the import of the small differences that Washingtonians allow themselves. If you see a gaggle of people smoking outside a formal dress event, for instance, you’re likely looking at […]
Garance Franke-Ruta
Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.
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PERLS BEFORE SWINE.
PERLS BEFORE SWINE. Author Rick Perlstein has signed on to do a new blog on the conservative movement, The Big Con, for the Campaign for America’s Future, where he’s now a senior fellow. Check it out. —Garance Franke-Ruta
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IN OTHER SUPREME…
IN OTHER SUPREME COURT NEWS. Nathan Newman flags the Watters v. Wachovia decision to uphold a regulation exempting the mortgage subsidiaries of banks from regulation by state laws. Newman calls this “a gift to predatory lenders” and notes that the Bush’s administration’s decision to block the state laws, which the Court upheld, “directly fed the […]
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HMMMM. I see…
HMMMM. I see Keelin McDonell has decided that just mentioning the domestic violence angle raised by the police as an explanation for their actions in the Virginia Tech shootings is a great chance to haul out the hoary neoliberal anti-PC schtick I’m sure we all remember exhaustedly from the 1980s. Did I allege “good-ole’-boy misogyny” […]
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THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS….
THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS. The massacre in Blacksburg, Va., yesterday is already raising fresh talk of gun control, because mass shootings always do. But before people get sidetracked into that morass, they should take a close look at other the policy issue this tragedy has thrust into the national spotlight: domestic violence. Because the first victim […]
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ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROVE.
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROVE. The Los Angeles Times provides some useful background for those trying to follow the White House e-mail story who need more narrative in their news than the excellent muckraking blogs can provide. This is how the scandal started: The large e-mail inquiry originated from once-separate congressional probes into allegations of […]
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MORE ON IMUS….
MORE ON IMUS. Geoffrey Nunberg has a smart take over at Open University. UPDATE: CBS drops his morning radio show, as well. –Garance Franke-Ruta
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THE BLOGOSPHERE’S VERY…
THE BLOGOSPHERE’S VERY OWN GENDER CONTROVERSY. Feministe is irate that Markos is so blas� about Kathy Sierra‘s accounts of online death threats. Not hard to see that one coming. UPDATE: Jessica Valenti also comes out with guns blazing: it’s one thing to argue–as Markos does–that a blogger code of conduct would be ineffective. Fine. But […]
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EDWARDS WHIFFS ON…
EDWARDS WHIFFS ON IMUS. Coming off of a strong round of pushing back against right-wing media by refusing to participate in either the Nevada Democratic Party or Congressional Black Caucus Institute presidential debates hosted by Fox News, John Edwards stepped in it yesterday with his weak, cautious response to Don Imus‘s outrageous remarks. Where Hillary […]
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CLINTON BACKS THE…
CLINTON BACKS THE WOMEN AGAINST IMUS. The Hillary Clinton campaign asks supporters to send messages of support to the women of the Rutgers basketball team. Clinton writes: This year the Rutgers women’s basketball team defied the odds and lived up to their dreams, providing inspiration to every little boy and girl beginning to pick up […]
