Honduras’s ‘Bloodless Coup’: What You’re Not Seeing on TV Honduras’s ‘Bloodless Coup’: What You’re Not Seeing on TV
In Honduras, people are dying while the world looks the other way. Real international pressure--especially from the US--is the only force that could stop that now.
Putting Caste on Notice Putting Caste on Notice
Navi Pillay is the first UN human rights commissioner to take on caste discrimination.
Oct 26, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
The Public Option Lives! Big Victory for Progressives The Public Option Lives! Big Victory for Progressives
Harry Reid just announced that he'll include a public option (with a provision that allows individual states to opt out of it) in the version of the health care bill he brings to ...
Oct 26, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Bombings in Baghdad Threaten DC’s Security. Bombings in Baghdad Threaten DC’s Security.
"Deadliest bombs since '07 shatter Iraqi Complexes. Key Government Sites. Synchronized car blast kill more than 130 -- Security issue." So reads the headline in ...
Oct 26, 2009 / Laura Flanders
What If, Instead of Fox, Team Obama Tackled Insurance Profiteers What If, Instead of Fox, Team Obama Tackled Insurance Profiteers
Suppose President Obama and his aides had decided to take on the worst offender among the big insurance companies this fall. Suppose the White House had highlighted the failure o...
Oct 26, 2009 / John Nichols
The Showdown in Chicago The Showdown in Chicago
The Showdown in Chicago is on! The ABA's annual convention has become the scene for a series of major protests, which are set to continue through Tuesday, when a major march and r...
Oct 26, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
The Future of the Public Option The Future of the Public Option
Chris Hayes, The Nation's Washington editor, clears up some of the confusion regarding the future of the public option.
Oct 26, 2009 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Climate Activists Hit the Streets Climate Activists Hit the Streets
Turnout for 350.org's International Climate Day of Action was high in New York City--and in some of the developing nations most vulnerable to effects of global warming.
Oct 26, 2009 / Feature / Nathaniel Herz
Obama’s Afghan Compromise? Obama’s Afghan Compromise?
With 14 more dead Americans today, in three helicopter crashes, it's beginning to look like President Obama will, after all, opt for a significant escalation of the war -- at leas...
Oct 26, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Anger, At Last Anger, At Last
In a brightly lit basement room at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago tonight, Angel Seda was leading seven hundred people in a chant. "Tell me what you want, what you...
Oct 26, 2009 / Esther Kaplan