Faculty Protest Texas Football Coach’s Raise Faculty Protest Texas Football Coach’s Raise

University of Texas football coach Mack Brown is getting a $2 million bonus while the rest of campus is tightening its belt.

Jan 5, 2010 / Column / Dave Zirin and Snehal Shingavi

Journalist: Newspaper Articles Too Long, Boring Journalist: Newspaper Articles Too Long, Boring

Shorter Michael Kinsley: Newspaper articles are too long. And don't blame the net. His new, punchy Atlantic essay tackles several odd conventions that still rule print journalis...

Jan 5, 2010 / The Nation

Dubai’s Tower of Debt Dubai’s Tower of Debt

New year, new symbol? Dubai's new tower fits. The $1.5 billion building unveiled in downtown Dubai Monday is the world's new tallest tower. More than half a mile high, more than t...

Jan 5, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Dem Leaders Scheme to Scrap Health-Reform Conference Committee Dem Leaders Scheme to Scrap Health-Reform Conference Committee

Progressive activists have put a good deal of energy into preparing for an anticipated House-Senate conference committee, in which the distinct health-care reform bills enacted by...

Jan 5, 2010 / John Nichols

Looting Social Security, Part 2 Looting Social Security, Part 2

The Washington Post has run a "news" article about deficit reduction penned by The Fiscal Times, an outlet backed by Pete Peterson, the Wall Street millionaire who wants ...

Jan 4, 2010 / Feature / William Greider

Tip The Balance In Favor of Family Farms & Good Food Tip The Balance In Favor of Family Farms & Good Food

"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness." -- Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1787 "Burn ...

Jan 4, 2010 / John Nichols

All Together Now: Shut Up You Lefties! All Together Now: Shut Up You Lefties!

  It's bound to happen, any time progressives have the audacity to demand brave leadership from a Democratic Party that asks for our money, our votes and our volunteer labor....

Jan 4, 2010 / Kai Wright

Fox News Scare Tactics: Get Obama-Care or “Go To Jail” Fox News Scare Tactics: Get Obama-Care or “Go To Jail”

"They'll send me to jail if I don't sign up for Obama's health care," an 89-year-old woman said at my family holiday gathering last week. She was agitated and angry. &...

Jan 4, 2010 / Jon Wiener

Holding Firm on Iran Holding Firm on Iran

With the start of the new year, pressure is building on the White House from assorted hawks, hardliners, neoconservatives, and pro-Israel lobbyists for President Obama to abandon ...

Jan 4, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss

It is Time for Obama and the Rest of Us to “Ring In The True” It is Time for Obama and the Rest of Us to “Ring In The True”

Ring out the old, ring in the new,