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Democrats Wise Up to Republican Strategy (Banking Predatory Lending, Parties, Economy, Politics)

Nation DC Editor Chris Hayes joins The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the strategy of both parties on Wall Street reform.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Tea Party Hypocrisy (Parties, Conservatives and the American Right, Politics)

Tea partyers' enthusiasm may be genuine, but let's not forget: this is a right-wing reactionary movement.

The Editors
Dropping in on the Tea Party (Parties, Conservatives and the American Right, Politics)

A tour of Tea Party Nation reveals an all-white movement moving further right from their Bush-era social agendas and into a growing anti-establishment populism.

Gary Younge
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Bring on the Filibuster (Congress, Parties, Third Party Politics, Politics)

Let the Republicans actually filibuster something, hour after excrutiating hour, in real time. The public won't like it.

Thomas Geoghegan and The Editors
Blueprint for Dems (Parties, The Left, Politics)

Democrats have tried to act "bipartisan" while Republicans got obstructionist, and the Dems are paying for it.

Bernie Sanders
GOP Gets Desperate to Block Health Reform (Healthcare Policy, Parties, Politics)

The Nation's DC editor Chris Hayes weighs in on the petty tone currently defining the Senate's healthcare battle.

Countdown
The Money Man's Best Friend (Economic Policy, Parties, Economy, Politics)

Blue Dog Democrats are undermining prospects for financial-industry regulation and reform.

William Greider
What Ails the Senate (Parties, Senate, Politics)

The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body.

Christopher Hayes
Republican Party Rejects the Middle (Parties, Politics)

The Nation's Christopher Hayes believes one New York congressional race marks a takeover of the GOP by far-right radicals like the tea party protesters.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Devil in the Old Dominion (Gubernatorial Campaigns and Elections, Parties, States, Politics)

Everyone is looking to Virginia's off-year gubernatorial contest as a Middle American barometer for 2010.

Bob Moser

Blogs

Why Aren't the Powers That Be Tackling the Jobs Crisis?
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The White House, House Republican majority, and Senate Democratic majority have remained silent about how to fix widespread unemployment.

May 10, 2011
At White House, Axelrod Outlines Obama's Post-SOTU Strategy
The Notion

The president's adviser offered few specifics of how the president planned to make promised new investments while observing a five-year domestic spending freeze.

January 27, 2011
Mingling but No Tingling at State of the Union
The Notion

And Boehner (yes, Boehner) almost steals the show.

January 26, 2011
Kucinich Wants to Take the Lead in Battling GOP's Witchhunters
John Nichols

With Republicans threatening on orgy of partisan excess in the new Congress, an aggressive and determined Democrat want to take over as the ranking member of the House committee charged with oversight of the Obama administration. "We cannot simply stand by idly and hope that such a reckless approach to the use of the power of the chair will not happen, especially since it is not only being promised, but demonstrated by the person who will hold the gavel," says Kucinich.

November 18, 2010
Obama: How You Like Me Cao?
The Notion

Forget the hype about whiners and the professional left—a concrete test of Obama's political strategy is playing out in New Orleans.

October 6, 2010
Melber on Why the Majority Should Rule
Nation in the News

Ari Melber shares his plan on how to fix Congress—let the majority win.

September 1, 2010
It's About Main Street, Not the Mosque
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The party with solutions to the country's economic woes will be the winners come November.

August 17, 2010
A Coalition Builder's Lesson for Progressives
Katrina vanden Heuvel

If progressives are to alter the hostile political environment that arms the lobbies and forces President Obama and centrist Democrats in Congress to shrink from bolder reforms, they must build and mobilize a broad reform that transcends left-right divisions.

July 6, 2010
RNC Stripper Stimulus
The Notion

The Republican National Committee has been giving a little stimulus of their own to an overlooked demographic group: strippers.

March 31, 2010
Health Care Moving in the Right Direction
Christopher Hayes

Those of us paid to observe Congress have spent the last two weeks watching, with mouth agape, as congressional Democrats slowly raised a loaded gun to their collective mouths and volubly considered pulling the trigger. But sanity has, tentatively, provisionally prevailed.

January 27, 2010
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