A Progressive for New Orleans
Katrina vanden Heuvel:The mayoral race in beleaguered New Orleans has a candidate who is a true social justice advocate and progressive--Nation contributor and civil rights advocate James Perry.
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Six Scenarios for the Massachusetts Vote and After
John Nichols:Coakley wins, Brown wins, nothing changes, everything changes, Democrats get it, Democrats blow it, Republican implode, or maybe not.
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Bad Model Ford
Ari Berman:Harold Ford Jr's bid for the Senate in New York is laughable and ludicrous.
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Senator Ed Schultz?
John Nichols:North Dakota Democrats consider MSNBC host as a potential candidate, but he sounds reluctant.
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Looking Back
Peter Rothberg:Remember these under-appreciated victories of 2009.
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Holding Firm on Iran
Robert Dreyfuss:So far, at least, Obama isn't caving in to the pressure from the hawks on Iran.
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What Happened to Obama's Movement?
GRIT TV :The Obama campaign was a massive grassroots mobilization, but a year later, has the organization that grew out of it failed to keep up the momentum?
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Tony Kushner on Climate Change
VideoNation :Kushner speculates on why it's so hard as an artist to write meaningfully about climate change--and why policy change has come so slowly.
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GOP Gets Desperate to Block Health Reform
Countdown :The Nation's DC editor Chris Hayes weighs in on the petty tone currently defining the Senate's healthcare battle.
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The Hundred Days War
Thomas J. Sugrue:FDR's first hundred days were unprecedented in their ambition and scope--and anything but politically coherent.
Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act of 1935ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A Very Different 100 Days
Nicholas von Hoffman:Many comparisons have been made between Obama and FDR. But the forty-fourth president will have a very different first 100 days.
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Slide Show: Obama's Inauguration
Images from the Inauguration, the Lincoln Memorial concert and celebrations in the nation's capital and beyond.
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The Terror Trap
The Editors : Terrorism Targeting the US
The attempted airliner attack on Christmas Day demonstrates that the best antidote to terrorism is not military action but good intelligence, police work and appropriate security measures.
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Slide Show: Obama's Challenges in 2010
The Nation on the most crucial domestic and foreign issues facing his administration in the new year.
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What's Next for Healthcare Reform?
Lindsay Beyerstein : Health Care Policy
Despite the Senate compromises, there's still a lot to like in the healthcare reform bill. But will it survive reconciliation?
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Joe Lieberman: How About Another War?
John Nichols
"Iraq was yesterday's war, Afghanistan is today's war," chirps the senator as he says U.S. should "act preemptively" against Yemen.
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McCain Gets It, Obama Doesn't
Robert Scheer : U.S. Economy
Although Obama has blasted "fat cat bankers on Wall Street," it is time for those who elected him to ask for more than rhetoric.
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Swapping Politics for Science on Drug Policy
Beth Schwartzapfel : Medicine/Drugs
President Obama has lifted the twenty-year ban on federal funding of needle exchanges. But if he wants to promote public health--over politics--on substance abuse, there are plenty of other bold steps his administration should take.
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Stacked Deck Against Homeowners
Alex Ulam : Housing & Homelessness
Legal remedies are not strong enough to save defrauded citizens from losing their homes.
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Healthcare Pressure Points
J. Lester Feder : Health Care Policy
How do the House and Senate bills compare on affordability and enforceability?
» Capitolism
Health Care Moving in the Right Direction
| Health care reform is alive, if not quick kicking.
Christopher Hayes
» The Notion
When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown
| Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
» Act Now!
Demand Question Time
| Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
» Editor's Cut
Welcome to Palinland
| Though Sarah Palin's National Tea Party Convention keynote garnered applause when she invoked Ronald Reagan, the real sage behind her speech was Barry Goldwater.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
» Passing Through
Forget GM's Plan -- Where's The Government's Plan?
| Create a demand for green cars.
Jane Hamsher
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