Bad Brown Acid Bad Brown Acid
I've got a new "Think Again" column, called "Why Can't the Media ExplainOur Woes? (and Why Other Countries Don't have Them...). It's acomparison of healthcare systems in the Unit...
Sep 10, 2009 / Eric Alterman
President Obama: ‘The Time for Action Is Now’ President Obama: ‘The Time for Action Is Now’
President Obama invokes history and offers a robust vision of progressive governance (if not the public option) in his major address to Congress on healthcare.
Sep 10, 2009 / C-SPAN
Take the Obama Conspiracy-Theory Challenge! Take the Obama Conspiracy-Theory Challenge!
Now that President Obama's speech to school kids has proved not to be the Maoist indoctrination tool that the right absolutely knew it would be, it's time for the rest of us to sta...
Sep 10, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Obama’s Health Speech and the Big Sleazy Obama’s Health Speech and the Big Sleazy
The Nation's Chris Hayes looks back on the impact of right-wing 'death panel' attacks of August and sounds an optimistic note about the future.
Sep 10, 2009 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Door Open for Iran Talks Door Open for Iran Talks
The drums of war are beating again over Iran, but sadly it's a representative of the Obama administration who wielded the heaviest drumstick. Glyn Davies, the US representative ...
Sep 10, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Does Joe Wilson Believe the President Was Actually Lying? Does Joe Wilson Believe the President Was Actually Lying?
It's pretty clear to me that Wilson's outburst wasn't calculated grandstanding but a genuine moment of rage and frustration. Just look at the photo. That's a genuinely pissed off d...
Sep 10, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Challenger to “You Lie” Congressman Cashes In After Speech Challenger to “You Lie” Congressman Cashes In After Speech
The words "you lie" will live in infamy for Joe Wilson, the overheated Republican Congressman who shouted at President Obama during his address to a joint session of Cong...
Sep 10, 2009 / Ari Melber
Obama Shows His Progressive Spine Obama Shows His Progressive Spine
The president's healthcare speech was not a full-fledged antidote to decades of Reaganism. But it was an eloquent call for a new progressive role for government. We must build on i...
Sep 10, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Right On Right On
Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right's resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?
Sep 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
Speak as Little as Possible: On Clarice Lispector Speak as Little as Possible: On Clarice Lispector
Novelist Clarice Lispector idealized animals and idiots because they were free of the desire to translate experience into words.
Sep 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Aviv