The Bridge (Free subscription) | yesterday
The American Prospect, October 27, 2009 by Robert Kuttner What are our fondest hopes and worst fears for the health legislation now slouching towards the president's desk? On the plus side, it will cover slightly more than half of America's...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gershom Gorenberg, has an article in The American Prospect. Gershom has specialized in messianic Zionism. His Wikipedia entry defines him as "an American-born Israeli historian, journalist and blogger, specializing in Middle Eastern politics and the interaction of religion and politics" and "a left-wing, skeptical Orthodox Zionist Jew". The article, as others...
Thoughts About K4D (Free subscription) | yesterday
My son pointed out this article from the blog of The American Prospect, dealing with the negotiations in South Korea for a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The draft agreement would do away with an understanding we have in the U.S. about the Internet: that, generally speaking, the networks and platforms that make up the online world (whether that's TimeWarner Cable or YouTube)...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Michelle Goldberg has a thought provoking article at The American Prospect about an Afghani women's group calling for an increase in American troops in that country to protect women against the barbaric reach of fundamentalist Islamic leaders who would likely be left in control over most of the country, if not the entire country, if we were to withdraw. If there is a compelling...
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... base in Ramstein, Germany, and then to Egypt, where he was allegedly tortured. Adam Serwer at the American Prospect asks : "This case has always puzzled me -- Italy is an ally. Why was extraordinary rendition necessary? Such methods are usually reserved for apprehending individuals in countries that are not friendly to the United States precisely because those countries won't...
Later On (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Norman Ornstein in the March/April 2008 issue of The American Prospect had an important article (currently the site seems to be down, but it’s a great article) on a topic dear to my heart: on how badly the Senate functions, even apart from the obvious problem of in appropriate representation (in which Senators elected by [...]
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... is secured, Top Rank will arrange several undercards, including one that features local Mexican-American prospect Roberto Marroquín, Trampler said. “It would be Roberto’s first Pay-per-view event. We hope all the cards fall into place because we’re sure it’s going to be a successful event”, Trampler said. The last big fight in Dallas took place in 2006 at American Airlines...
Psyche, Science, and Society (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
American Prospect has an interesting discussion of differeing attitudes among Afghan women toward the US presence there. In case you don’t read the entire article, it needs to be considered in the context of the final paragraph: To a large degree, the answer depends on whether one believes that the American military can be a force [...]
Young Guns (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
As Arsenal mull over whether to hand American Under 17 international Luis Gil a contract, the highly sought after pass-master is interesting several Major League Soccer clubs as he looks to sort out a club after previously having his development handled by the US residency programme. Gil is currently away with the American national team at [...]
Streaks Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Taxing Matters | The American Prospect . And here is a related random, and unanswerable question. How much of our economy has government investment at its base? How many of our consumer goods go back to some government subsidized research?
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... was just “giving liberals an argument to discredit the death penalty”. Michelle Goldberg of the American Prospect writes, " The Execution of a Potentially Innocent Man Less Scandalous Than an Affair? " for AlterNet, today. It's lucky for Gov. Rick Perry of Texas that he's not suspected of doing something truly shocking, like having an affair. Instead, it merely seems that he's helped...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Michelle Goldberg in The American Prospect: Women for Afghan Women (WAW), a nongovernmental organization that runs women's shelters, schools, and counseling centers in three cities in Afghanistan, has watched with alarm as American opinion has turned against the occupation. An...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
In our post from earlier today about the conservative efforts to gin up bogus voter fraud fears, one point we didn't go into -- but Adam Serwer at the American Prospect now has -- is the silliness of the notion that provisional ballots are particularly vulnerable to voter fraud. A central component of the current right-wing freakout is the fact that there are likely to be a higher number...
Newswise (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... Social Science Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, The Nation, The American Prospect, New York Times, and Washington Post. Prior to joining the faculty at George Washington he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and served as a research analyst for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
DMI Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... efforts, we can grow the number of good, middle class jobs. Last month, an article in the American Prospect took a look at what cities across the country are doing to ensure that city-led economic development efforts create economic opportunity. Previously, developers and private firms set the terms for economic development deals with cities. But cities from Baltimore to Los Angeles...
