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On Tuesday, former Washington Post pundit (and Prospect alum) Ezra Klein sent a shockwave through the gay community by announcing he had hired gay anti-gay apologist Brandon Ambrosino to join him at Vox Media, the much-hyped digital venture aiming to remake journalism for the Internet age. Liberal watchdog group Media Matters was the first to […]
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Defective Democracy.
Roger Bybee explains why the Democratic senators who fled Wisconsin feel the battle over the rights of public-sector unions is so important. “The tide is turning, and people are turning against this bill to take away worker rights in Wisconsin,” says a determined state Sen. Mark Miller, a Democrat from Wisconsin, his voice hoarse from […]
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A Message for Progressives.
Today on TAP: Drew Westen says it’s time we started growing the economy and stopped shrinking the middle class. Progressives are not fond of “talking points”: We like to think in sentences, paragraphs, and even articles and books if it takes that long to fully flesh out an idea. Our ideas, so the story goes, […]
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Dems to Watch.
Tim Fernholz says a rising crop of Democrats is looking to the middle. After last fall’s electoral defeats, a shaken Democratic Congress returned to Washington to assess its political position and leadership, during what would turn out to be a surprisingly productive lame-duck session. Following a close look at the roster, both the House and […]
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A Long Shot’s Long Game.
Jamelle Bouie says Jon Huntsman‘s potential 2012 presidential campaign is a disaster waiting to happen. So why is he doing it? For the last few days, the only big piece of news to linger in the mainstream media besides the turmoil in Egypt has been the fate of Jon Huntsman. Huntsman, a Republican and former […]
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The Myth of the Center.
Paul Waldman says everyone is obsessed about Obama moving to the center. Too bad it doesn’t mean anything anymore. Even before President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address last week, the press narrative was clear: Obama would be “moving to the center,” a voyage that would anger his Democratic supporters, be dismissed […]
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Making Good on the Cairo Speech.
Matthew Duss says the United States must now develop a coherent approach to the fact of political Islam. The protests currently gripping Egypt caught everyone, including President Obama, off guard. While it’s been good to see the Obama administration coming out more strongly behind the protesters’ democratic demands, warning longtime U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak away […]
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Targeting Planned Parenthood.
Pema Levy says that while conservatives in Congress ostensibly aim at stopping abortion, they’re going to end up cutting needed health services for poor women. Earlier this month, the anti-abortion movement took a play out of James O’Keefe’s playbook; allegedly, men began showing up at about a dozen Planned Parenthood clinics across the country, claiming […]
