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,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Jan 1, 2010 / John Nichols
Federal Judge Dismisses All Charges in Iraq Massacre Federal Judge Dismisses All Charges in Iraq Massacre
A federal judge has dismissed all charges against the five Blackwater operatives accused of gunning down 14 innocent Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisour Square in September 2007.
Dec 31, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Looking Back Looking Back
It was a tough year at the end of a rough decade but there were some under-appreciated progressive victories that should inspire hope for 2010.
Dec 31, 2009 / Peter Rothberg