Phoebe Connelly

I know, I know. I should be neither shocked nor surprised by anything published in the New York Times. But when your Week in Review section has an article noting: … Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study — […]

Eds. Note: Te-Ping Chen is currently an intern at The Nation, where she contributes to J Street. Chen joins us this week on TAPPED as part of our weekly guest blogger series. I appreciate the Obama campaign for being so very generous in its respect for the American electorate’s supposed fascination with the Wright story. […]

One of my tasks as web editor here at TAP is to come up with the lead art for our homepage every day. And after nearly four months of primary coverage, I’ve noticed something about what I’m likely to find in the Associated Press photo database — crazy looking photos of Hillary Clinton. It annoys […]

Via Jessica Hopper, a really fantastic description of voting from Miranda July: Here’s why you should vote: you are going to really love it, the whole strange procedure. You get to walk right into a building that you would never normally be allowed in, often an elementary school. You can pause in the hallway to […]

Ben Smith reports that Howard Dean has spoken on when the superdelegates should weigh in: Harry Smith asked if after the nominating contests end with the South Dakota and Montana primaries on June 3, “Do you want the superdelegates to have some sort of vote immediately so that you’ll know months in advance of the […]

Catching up on my reading, I was surprised to see that The New Republic wasn’t running anything to mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war. On the other hand, there is this appreciation of Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke: “This is another way of saying that Haneke’s great interest is in dramatizing repression: the plot […]

To follow up on Dana‘s post, Silja J.A. Talvi, who has done some of the best reporting on women in prison, recently published a book on the subject, Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System. Here’s an excerpt, via In These Times. –Phoebe Connelly

If you held an election, and one faction threatened the other with death for daring to vote at all, and this had the effect of suppressing the turnout of the threatened group to the point where, in at least one major province, only 8 percent of its voters got to the polls, would the election […]

Late this afternoon, the Senate passed a stimulus bill that adds tax rebates for 20 million elderly people excluded from the House version, as well as 250,000 handicapped veterans. Senate Democrats failed by one vote to get a stronger bill, with extended unemployment benefits, more money for food stamps, and emergency energy assistance for the […]

Speaking in a high school gym in Virginia, Speaking in a high school gym in Virginia, Hillary Clinton asks an audience of students, folks who work nearby, and yes, a whole lot of women, if they’re ready for change. (They are.) She follows up with a good seven or nine sentences about the kind of […]