Talking With Tehran
Robert Dreyfuss : Can the United States and Iran negotiate an end to the nuclear standoff?
Gary Younge on the decline of white America, Stuart Klawans on Alain Resnais's Wild Grass and Calvin Trillin on the Roman Polanski defenders
Robert Dreyfuss : Can the United States and Iran negotiate an end to the nuclear standoff?
William Greider : The first step toward lasting financial reform is to identify the roots of the crisis.
Noy Thrupkaew : The campaign against forced prostitution works when it addresses victims' needs.
: Benefits extensions and retraining are not sufficient to address the staggering level of unemployment now facing Americans.
Mark Hertsgaard : A frightening new climate change study says the United States must quit carbon within ten years.
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On healthcare, Representative Grayson lands a punch; momentum against "don't ask, don't tell"; Obama goes weak on press freedom; Greece votes socialist as Europe trends right.
Christopher Hayes : The quickest way to Rahm Emanuel's bad side: put progressive pressure on conservative Democrats.
David Yaffe : In Leonard Cohen's Afterworld, the trajectory between the latest hit and the wisdom of old has been a long one.
Alexander Provan : Is the task of philosophy "to learn how to die," or to teach that there is no such thing as a good death?
Calvin Trillin : He's been punished for this lapse--exiled for decades from LA!
Eric Alterman : Newsrooms' fears of misunderstanding the right leads to outsized coverage and attention.
Gary Younge
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Marginal extremist voices are amplified by the right-wing echo chamber.
GRIT TV : Author Sharon Lerner and Rep. Raul Grijalva discuss flaws in the Senate Finance Committee's health bill and increased popular support for a public option.
Jessica Weisberg : 287(g), the Department of Homeland Security program that empowers local police, like notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to detain undocumented immigrants, is under scrutiny.
Dave Zirin : The real reason Limbaugh is losing his cool is that his dream of owning an NFL franchise is going up in smoke.
Eric Naing : At this past weekend's National Equality March, fury, or at least frustration, with the president trumped hope. On four key gay rights reforms, the administration's support is decidedly mixed at best.
GRIT TV : Is the so-called opt-out provision a worthy compromise for progressives who've already compromised just to get to a discussion of a public option?
Robert Scheer : The healthcare debate has become a convenient distraction from the far more pressing issues surrounding the banking meltdown.
Dan Chandler : A grassroots group for LGBT activism, born at last weekend's National Equality March, plans to push Obama harder than established gay rights groups will.
William J. Astore : Will Obama do any better at listening to critics of the Afghan War than Lyndon Johnson did on Vietnam?
The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Dave Zirin weighs in on Rush Limbaugh's bid to buy the the St. Louis Rams football team.
Greg Kaufmann : At a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, former CIA officers offered clear alternatives to escalation in Afghanistan.
Dave Zirin : Rush Limbaugh's long history of racism should be enough to quash his chances of becoming an owner in the National Football League.
Tom Engelhardt : Should President Obama and General McChrystal read the 111-year-old novel, The War of the Worlds?
Greg Grandin : Those who seized power in June have polarized society, delegitimized political institutions and empowered social movements.
Antonio Gonzalez & Miguel Tinker Salas : Having concluded that US and IMF/World Bank prescriptions failed their region, a new generation of leaders seek economic and social development through homegrown strategies.
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