Appoint a Cuomo to the Senate? Yes, Mario Appoint a Cuomo to the Senate? Yes, Mario
Caroline Kennedy is now officially out of the race for the New York U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "I informed Governor Paterson today that for p...
Jan 22, 2009 / John Nichols
Wise Words on the 17th Amendment Wise Words on the 17th Amendment
(Daniel Pollitt, who is professor of law emeritus at the University of North Carolina and my uncle, sent me his reflections on The Blogojevich-Burris flap. I figured I should put ...
Jan 22, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Harry Reid on EFCA Harry Reid on EFCA
Yesterday, Senate Democrats convened the third annual Senate Progressive Summit, a day-long series of panels with the senators and various progressive media folks, Mother Jones, T...
Jan 22, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Exit Caroline Kennedy? Exit Caroline Kennedy?
Caroline Kennedy, briefly the frontrunner to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the senator from New York, is now reportedly out of the running. Or maybe she is still ...
Jan 22, 2009 / John Nichols
On the Road to the Inauguration On the Road to the Inauguration
A glimpse at one group of passengers on their 700-mile bus journey from Fort Valley, Ga--to witness history firsthand.
Jan 21, 2009 / American News Project
Seeking Obama’s Center Seeking Obama’s Center
The pundits insist Obama will govern from the center, but to me it seems he's dedicated to redefining where the center is.
Jan 21, 2009 / Victor Navasky
Bishop Gene Robinson on Hope for Obama, LGBT President Bishop Gene Robinson on Hope for Obama, LGBT President
With Barack Obama's inauguration, Gene Robinson has hope that an openly gay person can become president in the future.
Jan 21, 2009 / The Daily Show
Is Obama the Next Lincoln? Is Obama the Next Lincoln?
Two historians discuss the similarities and differences between the two senators cum presidents from Illinois.
Jan 21, 2009 / CBS
Clair de Lune Clair de Lune
We revolt ourselves; we disgust and annoy us. The way we look at us lately chills us to the core. We become like those who seek to destroy us. We push ourselves into small tasks that employ us unrewardingly on purpose. We tire, we bore. We revolt ourselves; we disgust and annoy us. We rent ourselves to what force will enjoy us into oblivion: wind, drink, sleep. We pimp, we whore. We become like those who seek to destroy us. We cat-and-mouse, roughhouse, inflatable-toy us in our heads' red maze, in its den, on its shore. We revolt ourselves; we disgust and annoy us. We take offense at our being; we plot, we deploy us against us and flummox; we wallow, we war. We become like those who seek to destroy us. If in triumph, our defeat; in torture, our joy is. Some confusion so deep I can't fathom anymore. We appall ourselves; we disgust and annoy us into those we become we who seek to destroy us.
Jan 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Donnelly
How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be? How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be?
Note: A shorter version of this essay appears in today's edition of the Wall Street Journal. President Barack Obama takes office at a time defined by hope and fear in equal measu...
Jan 21, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel