Will Congress Pass a Strong Public Option? Will Congress Pass a Strong Public Option?
Author Sharon Lerner and Rep. Raul Grijalva discuss flaws in the Senate Finance Committee's health bill and increased popular support for a public option.
Oct 15, 2009 / GRITtv
Facebookers, Unite! Help MADRE Win the Causes Challenge Facebookers, Unite! Help MADRE Win the Causes Challenge
MADRE, the women's rights organization, has joined a contest to raise funds for its work protecting women's rights workers in Afghanistan, where as I'm sure you know many have be...
Oct 15, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
AP Asks If Obama Is ‘Obnoxiously Articulate’ AP Asks If Obama Is ‘Obnoxiously Articulate’
Political reporters have now toggled from worrying that Obama gets "too much" media coverage to asking whether he is "too" good at communicating through the med...
Oct 15, 2009 / Ari Melber
Here’s What to Tell Obama, Congress About Real Reform Here’s What to Tell Obama, Congress About Real Reform
If you campaigned to elect Barack Obama last year, on the theory that doing so would deliver health care reform, it is likely that you will get a call next week. The president hi...
Oct 15, 2009 / John Nichols
Changing the Metaphor Changing the Metaphor
For Jackson Lears, the United States remains in thrall to a bogus spiritual quest born of a refusal to face the tragedy of the Civil War.
Oct 14, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Richard White
Honey and Salt Honey and Salt
Technology has made us capable of exterminating ourselves. In The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood wonders what might save us.
Oct 14, 2009 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Kilcullen’s Long War Kilcullen’s Long War
An influential Pentagon strategist advocates a fifty-year counterinsurgency campaign.
Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran
Tom Dine, for thirteen years head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations.
Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Helena Cobban
American Jews Rethink Israel American Jews Rethink Israel
The Jewish push for peace is surging through the grassroots, but leaders and policy-makers are still turning a deaf ear.
Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss
New Rules for Schools New Rules for Schools
The most effective way to fight violence in schools is not the widespread "zero tolerance" model. Thankfully, Clayton County, Georgia, may have the perfect solution.
Oct 14, 2009 / Amy Bach