Don’t Let the White House Spin the Public Option Debate Don’t Let the White House Spin the Public Option Debate
President Obama referred to the creation of a public program to compete with for-profit health insurers as a mere "sliver" of his reform agenda and then told a Colorado town hall ...
Aug 18, 2009 / John Nichols
Baucus & Grassley Hijack Obama’s Agenda Baucus & Grassley Hijack Obama’s Agenda
Barack Obama received 67 million votes in the last election. Senator Max Baucus of Montana received 349,000 votes when he ran for re-election last year. His Republican counterpart ...
Aug 18, 2009 / Ari Berman
Squandered Opportunity Squandered Opportunity
After a brilliant beginning, President Obama appears to be abandoning his principles on healthcare by hedging on a public option. What should disappointed Democrats do?
Aug 17, 2009 / William Greider
Has Labor Been Left Hanging? Has Labor Been Left Hanging?
Security guards in Philadelphia face an uphill battle to unionize with the Employee Free Choice Act stalled in Congress.
Aug 17, 2009 / Feature / Sarah Jaffe
Bloggers Back Obama’s Agenda, Not His Strategy Bloggers Back Obama’s Agenda, Not His Strategy
The Netroots Nation conference pulls in big Democratic names and spawns arguments in unlikely places.
Aug 17, 2009 / Feature / Ari Melber
What Is the Public Option? What Is the Public Option?
The Nation's Chris Hayes explains the proposed healthcare reforms as part of a panel discussion at the Netroots Nation conference.
Aug 17, 2009 / Sum of Change
Karzai, the Pashtuns, and the Taliban Karzai, the Pashtuns, and the Taliban
The prospects for Afghanistan's election on Thursday are murky, at best. The Taliban are threatening to disrupt the vote in areas south and east of Kabul, where they are strong,...
Aug 17, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Health-Care: Commodity or Right? (II) Health-Care: Commodity or Right? (II)
So it appears that Democrats, with control of the White House, the Senate and House, with a mandate that far exceeds anything George W. Bush could ever claim, with a popular leader...
Aug 17, 2009 / Eyal Press
If Obama Discards Public Option, What’s Left of Reform? If Obama Discards Public Option, What’s Left of Reform?
When Barack Obama assumed the presidency, there was talk that former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean might be his Secretary of Health and Human Services. That wou...
Aug 17, 2009 / John Nichols
Health-Care: Commodity or Right? Health-Care: Commodity or Right?
I've just come back from Europe, where citizens in most countries (on the left, right and center) would revolt if their leaders dared to privatize their health-care systems. That'...
Aug 16, 2009 / Eyal Press