Slacker Thursday Slacker Thursday
Our new Think Again column is here. It's called "Blogosphere to MSM: Get off the Bus (and Walk a Mile in OurShoes...)" It's about the degree to which the Maureen Dowd flap inspir...
May 21, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Killing the Public Option Killing the Public Option
The nation's for profit health insurers are out to scuttle anything within the Obama healthcare plan that might be in any way public. One week after the insurance lobby ...
May 21, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Dreyfuss Endorses Taliban Plan for Peace Dreyfuss Endorses Taliban Plan for Peace
For a long time now, Obama advisers and administration officials have been repeating the idea that the Taliban and its allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan won't negotiate a deal be...
May 21, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Pakistan’s Missing Peace Pakistan’s Missing Peace
There's a hole in the heart of our Af-Pak policy. It's called peace between Pakistan and India. And no amount of aid will fill it.
May 20, 2009 / Graham Usher
Noted. Noted.
After insulting veterans, Homeland Security gets a do-over on a report on right-wing extremism; mass transit comes to small towns.
May 20, 2009 / The Editors
Healthcare Bottom Lines Healthcare Bottom Lines
A realistic public healthcare plan should rein in costs, fix uncompetitive markets and change the way medicine is practiced.
May 20, 2009 / J. Lester Feder
Bankers’ Paradise Bankers’ Paradise
Congress, at the behest of the banking industry, has changed accounting rules to make company balance sheets even more opaque. How is that going to help?
May 20, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Obama’s Tortured Turn Obama’s Tortured Turn
Obama's reversal of the decision to release photos of detainee abuse is unsettling and wrongheaded.
May 20, 2009 / The Editors
London Falling London Falling
New Labour is finished. What replaces it will certainly be worse.
May 20, 2009 / Column / Gary Younge