Progressives, Bloggers Make GQ’s New Washington Power List Progressives, Bloggers Make GQ’s New Washington Power List
GQ released its much anticipated "Power 50" list on Tuesday, the first compendium of Washington's most influential players in the Obama era, with a PR blitz and a glitzy ...
Oct 13, 2009 / Ari Melber
NFL: Are You Ready for Some Limbaugh? NFL: Are You Ready for Some Limbaugh?
The Nation's Dave Zirin weighs in on Rush Limbaugh's bid to buy the the St. Louis Rams football team.
Oct 13, 2009 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Iran Flexes Muscle in Iraq Iran Flexes Muscle in Iraq
Several top Iraqi politicians have been making the rounds in Iran lately, getting support from Tehran in advance of elections scheduled in Iraq for January. Among the politicians:...
Oct 13, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Geithner’s All Ears for the Debt Cartel Geithner’s All Ears for the Debt Cartel
Months ago, a former chief economist at the IMF called it mind control. Talking to Simon Johnson of the Atlantic Monthly, he explained that one of the most alarming truths laid b...
Oct 13, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Whiner-in-Chief Whiner-in-Chief
The Obama administration really needs to get over itself. First, the president and his aides go to war with Fox News because the network maintains a generally anti-Obama slant. ...
Oct 12, 2009 / John Nichols
It Costs Money to Die It Costs Money to Die
Forty-five years before Jessica Mitford's exposè of the funeral industry, Paul Blanshard found out just how expensive dying can be.
Oct 12, 2009 / Paul Blanshard
Opting Out Opting Out
Jack Kevorkian is leading the movement to allow people to take death in their own hands.
Oct 12, 2009 / Frank A. Oski
Feingold: Need an Afghan ‘Timetable’ Feingold: Need an Afghan ‘Timetable’
For a forthcoming (later this week) article on Afghanistan for Rolling Stone, I interviewed Senator Russ Feingold, one of the few members of the Senate who's been willing to speak...
Oct 12, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
New White House Line Against Fox: It’s War New White House Line Against Fox: It’s War
The White House's battle with Fox News reached a new high on Sunday, when Communications Director Anita Dunn went on national television to blast Fox as a partisan organization tha...
Oct 12, 2009 / Ari Melber
The Burden & The Nobel The Burden & The Nobel
The choice has always been, as a former chair of the Nobel Peace Prize judging committee explained in 2001, " a political act." This year it was also an ingenious leap of...
Oct 11, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel