Bailouts for Bankers, Not a Cent for Autoworkers Bailouts for Bankers, Not a Cent for Autoworkers
This is the part of our nation's surreal economic crisis that seems particularly surreal: The US auto industry, which employs 3 million Americans in auto plants, parts and suppli...
Nov 24, 2008 / John Nichols
Prediction: Franken Will Win by 27 Votes Prediction: Franken Will Win by 27 Votes
Nate Silver, whose website FiveThirtyEight.com had the most accurate predictions for the Nov. 4 vote for president and senators, has a new prediction: Al Franken will win the Minn...
Nov 24, 2008 / Jon Wiener
Obamacons? Obamacons?
Jeremy Scahill on President-elect Obama's questionable foreign policy team. Plus: Bolano's 2666.
Nov 24, 2008 / Radio Nation
Saturday Night Live Parodies Rahm Emanuel Saturday Night Live Parodies Rahm Emanuel
President-elect Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, has a message for you: Be afraid, be very afraid.
Nov 24, 2008 / Saturday Night Live
Is Personnel Policy? Is Personnel Policy?
Yglesias (via his cronies at CAP) reports that Melody Barnes will run Obama's Domestic Policy Council. That's good news. I think she counts as a "dyed-in-the-wool progressive." ...
Nov 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes
A Fallen Legion in Washington A Fallen Legion in Washington
By October 2005, when American casualties in Iraq had not yet reached 2,000 dead or 15,000 wounded, and our casualties in Afghanistan were still modest indeed, informal "walls...
Nov 24, 2008 / TomDispatch
Ain’t No Love In the Heart of the Citi Ain’t No Love In the Heart of the Citi
Lots of bailout news today, which is never a very good sign. Mark Thoma rounds up the opinions on it here and I'm still digesting, but my sense is that, as Krugman says it's "a lo...
Nov 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Let’s Be Clear About Obama Let’s Be Clear About Obama
There are some interesting conversations and debates underway atthenation.com (see especially Chris Hayes at Capitolism, "Left Out") and in the progressive blogos...
Nov 24, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama’s Foreign Policy Team Obama’s Foreign Policy Team
I hate to say I told you so, but here it goes. In late September, in this column, I criticized Barack Obama for what I called a "pathetic" debate with John McCain, in which Obama...
Nov 24, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Hillary’s Big Ethics Problem: Bill Hillary’s Big Ethics Problem: Bill
What guidelines should govern Bill Clinton's future activities if Hillary becomes Secretary of State? Recent events suggest that at least two are necessary: no more favors for hu...
Nov 22, 2008 / Jon Wiener