The Obama-Netanyahu Showdown The Obama-Netanyahu Showdown
President Obama got some strongly worded advice yesterday on how to deal with Israel's Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, who'll be making his first visit to the United States as Isra...
Apr 28, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
This Week on the Hill This Week on the Hill
Greg Kaufmann gives a run-down of a busy upcoming week on Capitol Hill: The Rest of the Week The House and Senate negotiated a final budget resolution Monday night and will vote...
Apr 28, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Political Pandemic: While Obey Acts, Collins Spins Political Pandemic: While Obey Acts, Collins Spins
House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat whose attempt to secure needed funding for pandemic preparedness was blocked earlier this year after Sen...
Apr 28, 2009 / John Nichols
Killer Economics Killer Economics
We don't need a 100-day reckoning to know the score: war, recession, violence in Pakistan and now a global epidemic. The landscape before us is a pretty tense: more than t...
Apr 27, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Ratify CIFTA Ratify CIFTA
Co-written and researched by Corbin Hiar. In a joint press conference with Mexico's president Philippe Calderon, President Obama recently threw his support behind the Inter-Ameri...
Apr 27, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Egypt After Mubarak Egypt After Mubarak
The prospect of a dynastic succession could make for a messy transfer of power in the political epicenter of the Arab world.
Apr 27, 2009 / Feature / Stephen Glain
Chasing Ghosts in Afghanistan Chasing Ghosts in Afghanistan
There were two important hearings regarding Afghanistan on the Hill last week -- in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and at the Congressional Progressive Caucus' (CPC) third...
Apr 27, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Is Obama Our Nixon? Is Obama Our Nixon?
My final weekly 100 Days column is in the magazine this week, and up on the web here. For the foreseeable future, we're going to convert the column to a biweekly one, so I can do ...
Apr 27, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Tim Geithner’s Sentences Resemble Securitized Assets Tim Geithner’s Sentences Resemble Securitized Assets
The New York Times today has a fantastic profile of Tim Geithner and his thinking. It underlines, through a complex portrait, how urgent it is to replace Geithner with someone whos...
Apr 27, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout
The Nefarious Al Gore The Nefarious Al Gore
Scalise, Sleaze, and the Nefarious Al Gore Al Gore was on the Hill to endorse the House climate bill at an Energy and Commerce hearing. He was armed as always with the latest sc...
Apr 27, 2009 / Chris Hayes