Friend of TAP Dayo Olopade has a fantastic series (Read part one, two, and three) over at The Root on black women and political power in the United States. Olopade writes, “The real obstacles to elective office may be about less rights and more about belonging to the right club.” Well, part of that is […]
Phoebe Connelly
Phoebe Connelly is a former web editor of the Prospect. Previously, she was managing editor of In These Times. She writes on political culture, human rights, and feminism.
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Advocating for Women: Girls Educational & Mentoring Services.
Courtney Martin writes that this International Women’s Day, we should look at gender inequality in our own communities. Each day this week on TAPPED we will run a profile of an organization doing exactly that. It seems that everywhere you look these days someone is speaking publicly about the urgent, international issue of sexual trafficking. […]
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The Little Picture: Gay Marriage Comes to D.C.
D.C. started accepting same-sex marriage license applications today. Candy Holmes and Darlene Garner were the sixth couple in line. Read DCists’ account of the morning, and check out Adam Serwer’s reporting on the fight to legalize same-sex marriage in the District. (Special thanks to Matt Dunn for the photo.)
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Does Napoleon’s Retreat from Moscow Offer Lessons for Obama?
Nah, just kidding. We haven’t become Lapham’s Quarterly just yet. But given the slow news cycle brought about by the whiteout of D.C., we thought we’d offer up some gems from the Prospect archives for your snow-day reading enjoyment: Organizers of the first international art show in Vietnam since 1962 expected their country’s new openness […]
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The Little Picture: D.C. Voting Rights.
Today in 1867, Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of a bill granting voting rights to male citizens of the nation’s capital. It marked the first time African American men were granted the right to vote. However, to this day, D.C. still lacks voting representation in Congress. (Flickr/M.V. Jantzen)
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The Little Picture: Sen. Byron Dorgan.
Sen. Byron Dorgan also announced today that he would be retiring from the Senate. Read our 2008 look at his crusade against contracting fraud in Iraq. (Flickr/Boman Library)
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The Decade in Liberalism: The People.
Everyone knows that policies are nothing without a strong public champion. Here are the figures we’ve watched shape the political landscape of the aughts: Nancy Pelosi: The San Francisco liberal who took control of the House. Al Gore: His post-Clinton reinvention. Markos Moulitsas: The founder of DailyKos says serving in the Army made him a […]
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The Decade in Liberalism: What Makes Us Liberals (and Them Conservatives).
Sometimes the hardest part of politics is articulating exactly why you’ve picked the position you have. Here are our attempts to pin down what makes us liberals, and them, conservatives: We’ve toyed with the idea that liberals should walk away from an interest-group approach to politics. And dismissed liberal hawks’ positioning of incompetence as the […]
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The Decade in Liberalism: Defining the Agenda.
The Prospect began 20 years ago with a mission to rethink ideas about public policy and thereby restore plausibility and persuasiveness to American Liberalism. Then it was a quarterly out of Princeton, New Jersey, now, it’s a monthly with a lively Web site. Over the past decade, we’ve made a point of publishing the articles […]
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The Year In: Economy.
As the “Great Recession” dragged on, the unemployment rate climbed. Here are the top five articles explaining how we got into this situation and how we can get out of it: Through the debate over the bailouts, it seemed that every financial institution was “too big to fail.” But when it comes to banking, size […]