Blog: TAPPED

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. Robert Zoellick is en route to Abuja, Nigeria, to try and rescue stalled negotiations between the Darfuri rebel groups and the government of Sudan. The Darfur rebels want a peace accord that loosely resembles the Comprehensive Peace Accords signed in January 2005, which gave the Southern rebels the vice president�s office […]

COLBERT: EVERYONE’S GOT AN OPINION. Unlike everyone else across the ideological spectrum who’s weighing in on this, I refuse to open my Stephen Colbert commentary by saying I’m a “huge fan” of his show or whatever. I think the show’s okay, but it’s got an inconvenient time slot, so I’ve only really seen maybe five […]

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH. See Max Sawicky‘s post for some brief thoughts and a great early round-up of links to comments across the internets. On top of his many, many, many other accomplishments, Galbraith was a founding sponsor of this magazine — and the Prospect‘s core ideological mission certainly owes a great deal to the man […]

ANNOUNCING THE FIRST MONTHLY LONG TAIL CONTEST. A little over a month ago, I posted an open thread for reader bloggers to tell us about their sites. We found the results so fascinating, we decided to make it a regular feature. This is the first monthly “Long Tail” contest. Rules: you must be one of […]

ALLEN: ENSLAVING PEOPLE IS BAD. George Allen says he’s sorry about the whole slavery thing in a Washington Post article that mentions Ryan Lizza‘s look at his curious racial past. The Post article, though, is unclear on the really noteworthy part of Lizza’s story, which is that Allen isn’t some white Southern politician who used […]

WHEN WILL REPORTERS ASK ABOUT TYLER DRUMHELLER? Number of White House press briefings held since Tyler Drumheller, a 26-year veteran of the CIA and most recently head of European covert operations, told CBS’s 60 Minutes that the White House ignored the fact that a top member of Saddam‘s inner said Iraq had no active WMD […]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: THREE YEARS LATER. Three years is a long time, so it’s no surprise that late last week there were once again press reports that a drawdown of American forces in Iraq was in the works. But, of course, we’ve heard that at least half a dozen times since the end of “major” combat […]

MESSAGE DISCIPLINE! Remember the Republicans’ once legendary capacity for staying collectively on-message and coordinating their talking points? Yesterday, Bush administration officials and GOP senators hit the Sunday chat shows to talk up the party�s bold new steps to address rising gas prices. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman showed up on Meet the Press and, in nearly […]

A MATTER OF TASTE. The minor fracas over Stephen Colbert�s very funny, very tough routine at Saturday�s White House Correspondent Dinner is predictable but still noteworthy. One anonymous attendee observed to Editor and Publisher that, unlike past years� routines that targeted the White House and the press corps equally, �[t]his was anti-Bush�Usually they go back […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP: THE POLITICS OF DEFINITION.* For those of you looking for some weekend reading, all four parts of �The Politics of Definition� by John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira are now available. The article draws some similar conclusions to those made by our fearless leader, Mike Tomasky, in our current cover article. *Okay, […]