Obama’s False Financial Reform Obama’s False Financial Reform
What's missing in the President's call for reform are concrete rules that address a dysfunctional banking system. Slow down the rush to weak solutions.
Jun 19, 2009 / William Greider
Conservatives Choke on Persian Pretzel Logic Conservatives Choke on Persian Pretzel Logic
The democracy movement in Iran has thrown Republican ideologues into such a tizzy of circular logic that they're stepping on their own dicta. Neocons and hardliners may be as eage...
Jun 19, 2009 / Leslie Savan
For Single-Payer Healthcare For Single-Payer Healthcare
This post was written by Sarah Jaffe, a blogger, freelance journalist and Nation intern. Healthcare reform is on everyone's mind these days. President Obama has repeatedly stre...
Jun 19, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
Charles PierceNewton, MA. Hey Doc: "There's a man in old Pawtucket/Sells steamed clams by the bucket/Sowhen I want clams in a bucket, I go to old Pawtucket/ 'Cause I'...
Jun 19, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Rush Limbaugh on Sotomayor: A New Low? Rush Limbaugh on Sotomayor: A New Low?
Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell reflects on Rush Limbaugh's sexist and racist smears on Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Jun 19, 2009 / Countdown
Bush Is Back and Bashing Obama Bush Is Back and Bashing Obama
The Nation's Chris Hayes discusses the re-emergence of George W. Bush and his criticisms of President Obama.
Jun 19, 2009 / Countdown
The Ayatollah Throws Down the Gauntlet The Ayatollah Throws Down the Gauntlet
Speaking to a government-organized throng bused in from around Tehran and as far away as Qom, Iran's religious capital, and other cities -- a crowd, no doubt, vastly inflated by d...
Jun 19, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Do Americans Have a Right to Healthcare? Do Americans Have a Right to Healthcare?
The Nation's Chris Hayes and National Review's Reihan Salam to debate whether Americans have a 'right' to healthcare.
Jun 19, 2009 / The Nation Video
Americans for Financial Reform Americans for Financial Reform
In April, President Obama delivered a speech in which he alluded to the Sermon on the Mount to describe the stronger, more just economy he envisioned: "We cannot rebuild this econ...
Jun 19, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama’s Transparency Problem Obama’s Transparency Problem
The president gets mixed grades on his promises of transparency: good to the public and the press, not so good to the other two branches.
Jun 18, 2009 / Ari Melber