Fear of a Black President Fear of a Black President
Right wing commentators would rather stir up racial prejudice than enter into a serious debate about the future of US healthcare.
Aug 3, 2009 / Media Matters for America
Complain, Complain: Poems about Writing Poetry Complain, Complain: Poems about Writing Poetry
Now for something completely different. This week I'm guest-blogging at The Best American Poetry. So much fun! I'll be putting up here what I wrote over there the day before.
Aug 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Changing Kurdistan Changing Kurdistan
On July 25 Kurdistan held both presidential and parliamentary elections. A new, stronger opposition with more seats in the parliament indicates a change in the political landscape ...
Aug 3, 2009 / Feature / Mohammed A. Salih
Thinking Left in Bolivia Thinking Left in Bolivia
Álvaro García Linera, Bolivia’s Marxist vice president, talks about gender equality, the right wing and how natural gas has paved the way for a rebirth of socialism in his country.
Aug 3, 2009 / Feature / Linda Farthing
Show Trials in Tehran Show Trials in Tehran
As Roger Cohen's lengthy, analytical piece in the New York Times Sunday magazine described, the Obama administration hasn't quite figured out how to respond to the continuing turm...
Aug 3, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
This Week On The Hill This Week On The Hill
The House has already hit the road -- gone until September -- so the Senate has the joint to itself. I asked one Senate staffer what the rationale is behind the House taki...
Aug 3, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Race, Lies, and Health Scares Race, Lies, and Health Scares
It'd be nice to think that the recent surge in overtly racist rhetoric on the right has been a case of random opportunism, provoked by the coincidence of a wealthy black Harvard pr...
Aug 2, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever
How should serious supporters of healthcare reform spend the month of August? Not by getting trapped in the narrow "debate" between "party of no" Republicans who favor no reform ...
Aug 2, 2009 / John Nichols
Sonia Sotomayor is Not a “Consequence” Sonia Sotomayor is Not a “Consequence”
Politics does not get much creepier than the line from conservative Republican senators who say they have decided to support the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on ...
Aug 2, 2009 / John Nichols
Key Committee Backs Health Plan; Pelosi Allows Single-Payer Vote Key Committee Backs Health Plan; Pelosi Allows Single-Payer Vote
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday evening voted 31-28 for a health-care reform plan that uses a relatively robust "public option" and other strategies to insure th...
Aug 1, 2009 / John Nichols