Health Care Bill Advances, as Harry Reid Trumps Sarah Palin Health Care Bill Advances, as Harry Reid Trumps Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin may have the headlines. But Harry Reid has a health-care reform bill, and it is advancing. Indeed, with Saturday night's 60-39 Senate vote to open a historic debate o...
Nov 21, 2009 / John Nichols
Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan
Bill Moyers, who was at the side of President Lyndon Johnson at the time when disastrous decisions were being made to escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that was Vietnam, ...
Nov 21, 2009 / John Nichols
Palin as the Church Lady Palin as the Church Lady
You gotta give Sarah Palin's book tour credit for one thing: It's really putting the passive-aggressive instincts of the religious right on public display. And not just because sh...
Nov 20, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Journalism in 10: Ana Marie Cox on the Future of Media Journalism in 10: Ana Marie Cox on the Future of Media
Ana Marie Cox reflects on her experiences during the 2008 presidential election and suggests that we might see an influx of reporters that are hired by specific candidates to do op...
Nov 20, 2009 / The Nation Video
Man Made Disaster in New Orleans Man Made Disaster in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina is often called a natural disaster, as if it was all nature's fault, not man's. The reality, of course, is that federal, state and local governments ignored warni...
Nov 20, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
My new Think Again column, called "History Isn't a Dirty Word," about the incredible amnesia shown by the MSM regarding the Bush presidency is here; my new Nation column,...
Nov 20, 2009 / Eric Alterman
An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan
President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving. Before doing so, he would be wise to consider an alternative which has, until...
Nov 20, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
House Rebels Force Fed Audit, Real Economy Onto Agenda House Rebels Force Fed Audit, Real Economy Onto Agenda
The secretive Federal Reserve, former lair of "masters of the universe" like Alan Greenspan and Tim Geithner and current engine of a Wall-Street-first, Main-Street-last "recovery,...
Nov 20, 2009 / John Nichols
Is Sarah Palin Barbie Gone Bad? Is Sarah Palin Barbie Gone Bad?
The Nation's Naomi Klein on Palin: "She's a gun toting Barbie created in the basement of the Heritage Found."
Nov 19, 2009 / The Joy Behar Show
Jon Stewart on Why He Hates Sarah Palin Jon Stewart on Why He Hates Sarah Palin
It's not the fact that she's pretty or that she shoots things, says Stewart--"that's actually my favorite part."
Nov 19, 2009 / The Daily Show