Mini cowboys, fairies, firemen, and wizards are stuffing themselves with cupcakes, chips, and candy. Powerpuff Girls are slapping high fives and X-MEN are dueling. The Digimon‘s dad is getting it all on videotape. A grown-up hippie with an Afro wig and a bullhorn repeatedly tries to get everyone’s attention. Finally, the children of Boston’s Early […]
Lindsay Sobel
Lindsay Sobel came to the American Prospect in January of 2000 as the first editor of the newly launched American Prospect Online. Before joining the Prospect, she worked for Slate magazine and covered Congress for The Hill newspaper. Sobel earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Sobel grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in Cambridge, MA, with her husband Terry Klein.
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Teach Peace:
This month, a 15-year-old boy — ridiculed as “Anorexic Andy” at his San Diego area high school — allegedly opened fire, killing two of his classmates and wounding 13 more. Bewildered students recall that teenagers taunted Andy about his wiry frame and big ears, and even stole his skateboard and shoes. Andy had talked of […]
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Fueling an Epidemic:
You might think it was a sizable oversight that President Bush released his 163-page energy plan for America without including a single provision that would tackle skyrocketing energy prices in the short term. But Bush was way ahead of us on that. At a news conference just before he released his energy plan, he pronounced, […]
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The Year of the Ostrich:
Let’s call George Bush the ostrich president. When confronted with hard facts that contradict his position, he squawks and plunges his head deep into the sand, leaving Ari Fleischer to stutter out some sorry explanation. The Bush Administration is having a major ostrich moment. Yesterday the National Academy of Sciences released a report — requested […]
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Training the Conservative Foot Soldiers
Sidebar to “A Believable Politics” by Paul Starr As young progressives at the Century Institute draft their statement of principles, young conservatives are preparing to battle for theirs. Except the conservatives’ counterpart to the Century Institute — the Leadership Institute — is teaching strategy, not issues. And it has the budget to train a much […]
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The U.S. Retaliates — The World Responds
After weeks of warnings, the United States and Great Britain retaliated against Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban and Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network. Starting immediately after the first missiles crashed into targets in Afghanistan Sunday, the world community began to respond — in some expected and some unexpected ways. As the military campaign continues, the United […]