Blog Profile / Tapped
| URL : | http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Liberal | |
| Posts on Regator: | 4557 | |
| Posts / Week: | 35 | |
| Archived Since: | November 19, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Doesn't Anybody Here Know How to Run a Conspiracy?
In case you've forgotten, what took Benghazi from "a thing Republicans keep whining about" to "Scandal!!!" was when some emails bouncing around between the White House, the CIA, and the State Department were passed to Jonathan Karl of ABC last Friday. Show More Summary
A Few Words about Angelina Jolie's Breasts
Angelina Jolie—a woman with one of the world’s most famous breasts—has explained in a thoughtful New York Times op-ed this week why she's had them prophylactically removed and replaced. Jolie’s mother died young, after a decade living...Show More Summary
How to Prevent Another IRS Scandal
T he root of the recent scandal at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)—in which the agency admitted to singling out Tea Party groups for special scrutiny—is simple: terrible campaign-finance laws. Here’s the story: The IRS must determine...Show More Summary
Food Stamps Get Licked by Cuts
This week, the Senate and House committees in charge of agriculture passed farm bills—mammoth bills that will last for five years if passed and signed—and sent them to their chamber floors. The bills handle farm policy, but the vast...Show More Summary
Ringside Seat: NObamacare or Bust
As any parent knows, small children often believe that when you've been denied something you want, repeating your request over and over will eventually produce the result you're after. It works on occasion, if the stakes are low enough, the parents are weak of will, and the child is particularly exasperating. Show More Summary
Wall Street's Regulatory Rapture
The Balance Sheet if our daily economics newsletter. To subscribe, go here. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will make official a Wall Street victory today when it announces softened regulation on derivatives trading.Show More Summary
Will Blog for Swag
Yesterday was Google I/O, the tech giant’s annual developer conference. It’s where Google thinkers, technology journalists, and the genius programmers who make it all possible commune and geek out over the pixelated (and actual) buffet that awaits. Show More Summary
Rediscovering Albert Hirschman
T o consider the life story of development economist turned moral philosopher Albert Hirschman is to appreciate that no other generation is likely to accumulate the experience of the European émigrés to America who came of age just...Show More Summary
Benghazi Was Neither a Terrorist Attack Nor an Act of Terror
I am hereby declaring 99 Pinocchios on Barack Obama, all the people who work for him, everyone in the Republican party, and most everyone in the press who has reported on Benghazi. This is about what has to be one of the most inane disagreements...Show More Summary
Is the IRS "Scandal" Even a Scandal?
Jamelle Bouie/The American Prospect
The details of the current scandal at the Internal Revenue Service are straightforward, which might be surprising, given the reputation of the agency.
In early 2010—as right-wing opposition to President...Show More Summary
No More Playing With Money
If you’re looking for the personification of the Washington economic establishment, you could do a lot worse than Fred Bergsten. National Security Council economics deputy under Henry Kissinger (at age 27), then head of the international...Show More Summary
Do Drones Work?
Last week, the Congressional Progressive Caucus hosted an ad hoc hearing on the implications of U.S. drone policy. It was a follow-up of sorts to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in April examining the counterterrorism implications of drone strikes. Show More Summary
Teachers Left Behind
AP Photo/Randy Snyder
K athleen Knauth has had a rough school year. The principal of Hillview Elementary, near Buffalo, New York, has spent so much time typing teacher evaluations, entering data, and preparing for standardized testing,...Show More Summary
Of Cover-Ups and Crimes
Of all the crazy things people on the right are now saying about Benghazi, I'll admit that the one that most makes me want to scream is that it's "worse than Watergate." I get that much of the time it's just a way of saying "This is a big deal," and maybe there are some of your dumber elected officials (your Goehmerts, your Bachmanns) who believe it. Show More Summary
Free to Marry, Free to Work
AP Photo/Jim Mone
Thousands filled the Minnesota State Capitol as they waited for word that the Senate had passed the gay marriage bill yesterday.
L ast month, Rhode Island came over into the marriage equality column. Last week, it was Delaware. Show More Summary
Scandal Makers
AP Photo
I n case you didn't notice, over the last few days we entered a new phase in the Obama presidency: the scandal phase. What happened? It wasn't evidence of a crime being unearthed, or a confession from a conspirator. There was no sudden revelation, no arrests, no cancer on the presidency. Show More Summary
There Still Aren't Any Racists in America
Byron York’s interview with former Heritage Foundation scholar Jason Richwine is illuminating, not because of any new information—it’s well-established that Richwine has written for white nationalist websites and drew ideas and inspiration...Show More Summary
Is Impeachment Only a Matter of Time?
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
Over the weekend, the Internal Revenue Service faced criticism for targeting Tea Party organizations and other conservative groups for heightened scrutiny. This included nonprofits that criticized...Show More Summary
The Transgender Candidate
AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen
D espite twin bombings at the Awami National Party offices in Karachi this Saturday—an inauspicious start to polling day—Bindiya Rana, one of Pakistan’s first transgender candidates, remained optimistic. Rana’s spent the last several weeks canvassing the alleys of district P.S. Show More Summary
D.C. Circuit v. Worker Rights
Last week, a decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals provided an excellent example of how both presidential action and inaction can matter. Because of the former, the National Labor Relations Board had issued a rule intending to alleviate the power disparities between workers and employers. Show More Summary