Slide Show: Healthcare Reform Now Slide Show: Healthcare Reform Now
As Congress goes on recess, the battle to reform healthcare continues to heat up. Here is a look at the players and what is at stake.
Aug 5, 2009 / Photo Essay / The Nation
How the Tea-Baggers are Like ACT-UP How the Tea-Baggers are Like ACT-UP
There's been some very interesting back and forth about the right-wing disruptions of health care town halls in the Twitterverse and Blogosphere (oh God, did I just type those two...
Aug 5, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Will Blackwater Founder Face Charges? Will Blackwater Founder Face Charges?
Erik Prince has been implicated in murder, viewed himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims from the globe and his company smuggled weapons into Iraq.
Aug 5, 2009 / GRITtv
A Brief History of Fake Right-Wing Protests A Brief History of Fake Right-Wing Protests
The Nation's Chris Hayes on the not-so-new conservative strategy of disrupting town halls in order to hurt healthcare reform efforts.
Aug 5, 2009 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Blackwater’s Dark Deeds Exposed Blackwater’s Dark Deeds Exposed
The Nation's Jeremy Scahill on his explosive revelation that Blackwater's founder has been accused, in sworn depositions from two former employees, of murder.
Aug 5, 2009 / Countdown
Banking Bandits Get Their Reward Banking Bandits Get Their Reward
By now everybody must know that the top banking executives responsible for our economic meltdown have no shame.
Aug 5, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Poems about Poems: Why Not? Poems about Poems: Why Not?
Is there something wrong with writing poems about writing poems? And if so, what? My friend Richard Howard was the first person who told me he didn't approve of that subject, but ...
Aug 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Conservatives are the Real Joker Conservatives are the Real Joker
SOCIALISM is the tag line of a bizarre new campaign against President Obama. The word "Socialism" appears across an image portraying President Obama as Heath Ledger's J...
Aug 5, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Orchestrated Intimidation: We Won’t Stand For It Orchestrated Intimidation: We Won’t Stand For It
Campus Progress has compiled a formidable Toolkit for In-District Action during the August recess.
Aug 4, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation
Money for Nothing Money for Nothing
Two new studies indicate that Wall Street's profits and bonuses are vastly disproportionate to the value the industry adds to the economy.
Aug 4, 2009 / Feature / Jeff Madrick