Blog: TAPPED

Bob Herbert, a columnist for The New York Times for nearly 20 years, is leaving the paper.

Jess Zimmerman at Grist has the lowdown on how Gov. Scott Walker ruins things for wind energy, too. Energy developer Invenergy has twigged to the fact that Walker is a scumbag in general and an anti-environment scumbag in particular, and has pulled out of its plan to build a new large-scale wind farm in Wisconsin. […]

According to Public Policy Polling, North Carolina is definitely “in play” for Obama 2012: North Carolinians narrowly approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as President and as a result it appears he should once again be very competitive in the state in 2012. 48% of voters like the job he’s doing to 46% […]

On Thursday, a hearing was held in San Francisco Superior Court to challenge an environmental impact report that found it safe for mega developer Lennar Corp. to build commercial housing on a former naval shipyard. The hearing came the same week that damning e-mails emerged showing that some local and federal officials may have colluded […]

As we’ve seen, it’s standard operating procedure for Republican governors to balance state budgets on the backs of the poor and working class. Insofar that there’s anything to distinguish one governor from another, it’s in the details: Wisconsin’s Scott Walker wants to break unions and cut benefits, Florida’s Rick Scott wants to flash Medicaid, and […]

Adam Serwer says Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s effort to expand Muslim homeownership could hurt him in the GOP primary. Veronica Beebe interviews M. Gregg Bloche, an expert in health policy and author of The Hippocratic Myth, about our current health-care system and the future of patient care.

Today is the 100-year anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Filmmaker Harry Hanbury produced an amazing video for the National Consumers League that tells the story of the fire and how shockingly little progress we’ve made since then to protect workers in America. Examples of our cockeyed priorities from the film: A violation of […]

If you haven’t read The New York Times‘ lengthy investigation of how America’s largest corporation, General Electric, avoids paying taxes, you ought to take a look, because it’s a remarkable story. As the article says, “regulatory filings show that in the last five years, G.E. has accumulated $26 billion in American profits, and received a […]

Wealthy New Yorkers are asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo to end a $5 billion tax break for the state’s wealthiest residents and to stop cutting the budget, which includes a $9 billion cut to education and other social services programs. One signatory told Julie Shapiro of DNAinfo: “This is what is decent and sensible as part […]

Conor Friedersdorf calls on the right to police their media outlets and call out slander and lies, but rightfully notes that critics fail to realize how fundamental a shift this would be for conservatives: I’d love to see more folks in the conservative movement adopt Rubin’s attitude. But they won’t. One reason is that it’s […]