Week In Preview Week In Preview
From Greg Kaufmann: Now that Obama has announced his Af/Pak strategy there will be a whole host of hearings about it this week. One that was already in the works was the Congre...
Mar 30, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Afghanistan: Might As Well Talk Now Afghanistan: Might As Well Talk Now
Senator John McCain, appearing on Meet the Press yesterday, made all of his usual noises about Afghanistan and Pakistan -- attacking "minimalists" who want to reduce the US missio...
Mar 30, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
South Carolina Suffers While Gov. Rejects Stimulus Funds South Carolina Suffers While Gov. Rejects Stimulus Funds
On a recent visit to a state whose Republican governor rejected $700 million in federal stimulus funds, I got a sense of how deep the economic slide has been. Myrtle Beach, South ...
Mar 30, 2009 / Jon Wiener
On Budgets and Europe On Budgets and Europe
A dispatch from Greg Kaufmann: On Budgets and Europe Thursday afternoon, I was one of the 18 viewers in the age 3 to 100 demographic watching the Senate Budget Committee's marku...
Mar 30, 2009 / Chris Hayes
A J’accuse for CAP, MoveOn Afghanistan Silence A J’accuse for CAP, MoveOn Afghanistan Silence
President Obama went on CBS News' "Face the Nation" Sunday to make the case for his great big war in Afghanistan. The good news is that Obama says, "What I will not do is to simp...
Mar 29, 2009 / John Nichols
Trust Your Guts Trust Your Guts
Wall Street reforms may further consolidate power and ratify a corporate state that combines the worst aspects of socialism and capitalism.
Mar 28, 2009 / William Greider
Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama
Thirty years after the Three Mile Island partial meltdown, the real nuclear power threat is the relicensing of old plants.
Mar 27, 2009 / Christian Parenti
O’Reilly Ambushes Journalist and Gets Ambushed Back O’Reilly Ambushes Journalist and Gets Ambushed Back
After ThinkProgress.org's managing editor Amanda Terkel wrote a blog entry critical of Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, the bloviator-in-chief sent a producer, Jesse Watters, to sta...
Mar 27, 2009 / John Nichols
The President’s Never-Ending Virtual Town Hall The President’s Never-Ending Virtual Town Hall
President Obama cracked the White House door for citizens on Thursday, and some of their questions were still bubbling up long after the first virtual town hall ended.
Mar 27, 2009 / Feature / Ari Melber
Breaking Down the Weekly Media Spin Breaking Down the Weekly Media Spin
The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, Robert George of the New York Post and Danny Schechter the news dissector look at the reporting of the past week.
Mar 27, 2009 / GRITtv