Glenn Beck Dodges Incoming Plane at CPAC Glenn Beck Dodges Incoming Plane at CPAC
As CPAC opened its annual convention last Thursday, the same day that computer engineer Joe Stack flew his Piper Cherokee into an IRS office in Austin setting it ablaze, the consen...
Feb 22, 2010 / Leslie Savan
Haitian Relief: Shelter is Crucial, Underfunded Haitian Relief: Shelter is Crucial, Underfunded
As if things couldn't get any worse for Haiti, 1.2 million people are now homeless, living in crowded makeshift open-air "spontaneous settlements" without shelter beyond...
Feb 22, 2010 / Katha Pollitt
“The President’s Plan”: No Public Option, Lots of Compromise “The President’s Plan”: No Public Option, Lots of Compromise
For more than a year, President Obama remained on the sidelines of the health care debate -- chiming in now and again with sometimes-inspired, sometimes-disappointing rhetoric abou...
Feb 22, 2010 / John Nichols
Multicultural Classes Criticized as Indoctrination Multicultural Classes Criticized as Indoctrination
The University of Minnesota is drawing criticism for proposing curriculum that would teach education majors about things like institutionalized racism.
Feb 22, 2010 / StudentNation / Morgan Ashenfelter
Snipping at Immigrants’ Safety Net Snipping at Immigrants’ Safety Net
In search of a trifling 1.5 percent bite to take out of California's $20 billion budget gap, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a cruel and short-sighted cut in public assista...
Feb 22, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
CPAC Embraces Anti-War, Anti-Patriot Act, Anti-Free Trade Choice CPAC Embraces Anti-War, Anti-Patriot Act, Anti-Free Trade Choice
The good news from the Conservative Political Action Conference -- and it really is very good news -- is that the assembled activists have identified as their preferred choice for ...
Feb 21, 2010 / John Nichols
Indiana Dems Need Populist Mellencamp, Not Blue Dog Ellsworth Indiana Dems Need Populist Mellencamp, Not Blue Dog Ellsworth
Congressman Brad Ellsworth, the bluest of the Blue Dog Democrats, has announced his candidacy for the Indiana Senate seat that Senator Evan Bayh is exiting. Ellsworth calls himself...
Feb 20, 2010 / John Nichols
Ideas for Change in America Ideas for Change in America
As today's young adults struggle to balance the rising costs of a postsecondary education with countless other financial obligations, many public universities burdened with budget ...
Feb 19, 2010 / Peter Rothberg
Hold Onto Your Underwear: This Is Not a National Emergency Hold Onto Your Underwear: This Is Not a National Emergency
Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you're not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere, even toward Yemen.
Feb 19, 2010 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Tiger Woods: Rehabbing His Brand Tiger Woods: Rehabbing His Brand
Today's Tiger Woods press conference was an exercise in painful self-abasement that will achieve the opposite of its intended effect. I haven't seen anything this painfully scripte...
Feb 19, 2010 / Dave Zirin