Wrecking Ball Wrecking Ball
I've got a new "Think Again" column called called "Kevin Jennings, the Mainstream Media, and Right-Wing Target Practice." Read it here. Also, I'll be doing an event next wee...
Oct 1, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Stop Bullying the Anti-Bullying Czar Stop Bullying the Anti-Bullying Czar
In the mid-nineties, when Kevin Jennings was the executive director of a fledging non-profit supporting LGBT youth and teachers called GLSEN (for the Gay, Lesbian, and Stra...
Oct 1, 2009 / Emily Douglas
Progressives and the Fight for Healthcare Progressives and the Fight for Healthcare
Marcy Wheeler talks strategy, saying that Democrats need to "push the positive" to encourage people to not accept anything but the public option.
Oct 1, 2009 / The Nation Video
Right-Wing Ponders Overthrow of Obama Right-Wing Ponders Overthrow of Obama
The Nation's Christopher Hayes weighs in on of the recent "treasonous rhetoric from the right" and the danger that it could lead to real violence.
Oct 1, 2009 / Countdown
Roman Polanski Has a Lot of Friends Roman Polanski Has a Lot of Friends
If a rapist escapes justice for long enough, should the world hand him aget-out-of-jail-free card? If you're Roman Polanski, world-famousdirector, a lot of famous and gifted peop...
Oct 1, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Congressman Grayson Has Just Begun to Fight Congressman Grayson Has Just Begun to Fight
Washington Republicans are horrified, horrified, horrified by the bluntness of Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson. The tough kid from the Bronx (and Harvard Law School) ...
Oct 1, 2009 / John Nichols
Suspended Sentences Suspended Sentences
Eliot Weinberger's enigmatic essays save him from becoming a prisoner of his polemical style.
Sep 30, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul
The First Counter-revolutionary The First Counter-revolutionary
Thomas Hobbes sensed the revolutionary impulses of early modern Europe and transformed them into a defense of the most hidebound form of rule.
Sep 30, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Corey Robin
Wade Rathke Speaks Out Wade Rathke Speaks Out
Just a few weeks ago, a book talk by ACORN founder Wade Rathke wouldn't have drawn much press attention, but the organization's recent notoriety as a conservative boogeyman has thr...
Sep 30, 2009 / Chris Hayes