Conservatives & The American Right

2009

• The Palin Effect

  Max Blumenthal : Sarah Palin

  Why Sarah Palin can't be stopped from going nuclear inside the Republican Party.

• Right-Wing Rep's Fort Hood Fumble

  The Rachel Maddow Show

  The Nation's Christopher Hayes comments on GOP Rep. Pete Hokestra's decision to leak details of the ongoing Fort Hood investigation.

• Conscience of a Young Conservative

  Alana Levinson : Youth

  Can the Republican Party survive without the enthusiasm of its young supporters?

• Sarah, Smile

  Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism

  The next generation of right-wing journalists are largely apparatchiks.

• Limbaugh: Old News or Future of the GOP?

  The Joy Behar Show

  Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and Arianna Huffington discuss Rush Limbaugh's inaccurate and gratuitous Sunday morning appearance on Fox.

• The Antidote to Going Rogue

  Robert Greenwald

  A collection of Sarah Palin bloopers to complement Going Rouge, the collection of essays about Palin featuring Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel.

• The Goal of Going Rouge

  Entertainment Tonight

  Nation editors Betsy Reed and Richard Kim's Going Rouge is not out to confuse, but to inform.

• Olbermann on Going Rouge

  Countdown

  Keith Olbermann weighs in on the Sarah Palin "companion" book Going Rouge, edited by Nation staffers Betsy Reed and Richard Kim.

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  The NFL Must Flush Rush

  Dave Zirin : Sports

  Rush Limbaugh's long history of racism should be enough to quash his chances of becoming an owner in the National Football League.

• Obama and the Decline of White America

  Gary Younge : Barack Obama

  Marginal extremist voices are amplified by the right-wing echo chamber.

• Where Have You Gone, William Safire?

  Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism

  Newsrooms' fears of misunderstanding the right leads to outsized coverage and attention.

• The Right's Hate Doesn't Equate

  The Joy Behar Show

  The Nation's Ari Melber debates Meghan McCain over the nature of right-wing extremism versus the criticism leveled at President Bush by the "so-called liberal media."

• Inside the Value Voters Summit

  GRIT TV

  Jeff Sharlet says the conservative Christian movement in the US is far more complicated, diverse and powerful than most coverage of events like the 9/12 Tea Party protests suggests.

• Republican Gomorrah and the GOP Crackup

  VideoNation

  Nation contributor Max Blumenthal on the right-wing tea-baggers, sex scandals, religious fanaticism and zombie mentality that are driving today's Republican party.

• Right-Wing Ponders Overthrow of Obama

  Countdown

  The Nation's Christopher Hayes weighs in on of the recent "treasonous rhetoric from the right" and the danger that it could lead to real violence.

• A White Hot Season

  The Editors : Racism & Discrimination

  Policy can be racist even when no one crafting it harbors hatred of a particular racial group.

• The House That Irving Built

  Eric Alterman

  Grappling with Irving Kristol's legacy.