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
Ehren Watada: Free at Last Ehren Watada: Free at Last
After three years of trying to convict Lt. Ehren Watada for refusing to deploy to Iraq, the Army has allowed him to resign.
Oct 26, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
The Goal of ‘Going Rouge’ The Goal of ‘Going Rouge’
Nation editors Betsy Reed and Richard Kim's Going Rouge is not out to confuse, but to inform.
Oct 26, 2009 / Entertainment Tonight
A “Premature Antifascist” — And Proudly So A “Premature Antifascist” — And Proudly So
Clarence Kailin, a son of the Midwest whose lifelong commitment to social and economic justice led him to become one of the first Americans to take up arms against the fascist for...
Oct 26, 2009 / John Nichols
The ‘Beneath the Presidency’ Routine The ‘Beneath the Presidency’ Routine
The far right's latest attack line on President Obama is not assubtle as they think it is. By calling his administration's war of wordswith Fox News "beneath the presi...
Oct 26, 2009 / Adam Howard