Blog: TAPPED

In a new report, the Institute for Self-Reliance tells us that community broadband, in which local municipalities run their own cable to deliver Internet service to their citizens, is spreading, as you can see in the map above (the interactive version is available here). This is happening despite the concerted efforts of companies like TimeWarner, […]

Elizabeth Taylor died yesterday at the age of 79. Here she is in 2000, after receiving the honour of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony held at London’s Buckingham Palace. Her death, unfortunately, hasn’t saved her from sexism; obituaries are nearly as much about […]

Nancy Goldstein writes that in this time of corporate-led anti-union and anti-regulation fervor, we need to hold firm when it comes to defending workers’ rights. Ben Adler says that after years of browbeating, conservatives have succeeded in convincing Americans that Social Security is in trouble. But that doesn’t mean it is. Gershom Gorenberg reports on […]

Yesterday, the Republican-controlled Michigan Legislature passed a bill that sets a dangerous precedent for jobless workers and continues Midwest governments’ assault on the vulnerable middle class. While the bill would continue extended unemployment insurance for those already unemployed, it cuts the time new claimants can receive benefits — from 26 weeks to 20. This would […]

A new study from the Public Religion Research Institute finds strikingly little difference between Catholics and most Americans on gay marriage: Nearly three-­quarters of Catholics favor either allowing gay and lesbian people to marry (43%) or allowing them to form civil unions (31%). Only 22% of Catholics say there should be no legal recognition of […]

As Prospect guest blogger Jamilah King notes below, earlier this week, when asked about his abuse of former girlfriend Rihanna, rapper Chris Brown stormed off the set of ABC’s Good Morning America and threw a chair through a studio window, shattering glass onto Times Square. The New York Post reports today that Good Morning America […]

Chris Brown is sorry. The singer apologized for Tuesday’s violent tantrum at Good Morning America that came after host Robin Roberts asked him about the infamous assault that inspired the very album he was on the show to promote. Brown says he needed to release “the anger that I had inside of me” and “just […]

Maine’s new Tea Party governor, Paul LePage, is going after more than union workers’ pensions and right-to-work legislation. He is going to remove a mural depicting the history of labor in Maine from the state’s Labor Department building. The mural, which depicts local strikes and Rosie the Riveter, is one-sided, LePage claims. The artist has […]

Kevin Drum wonders just how we should understand Newt Gingrich‘s hilarious flip-flop on a no-fly-zone in Libya, namely that a few days ago, when Barack Obama wasn’t doing it, Newt was firmly in favor of it, but now that it has become the Obama administration’s policy, Newt is firmly against it: I always kind of […]