Burning Cars and Suicides Burning Cars and Suicides
Back in the Great Depression years of the 1930s, unemployed writers, like unemployed steelworkers, were in need of jobs, and so the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, which ...
Oct 20, 2008 / TomDispatch
Jörg Haider’s Legacy Jörg Haider’s Legacy
Austria's most notorious right-wing politician died as spectacularly as he had lived--and in a Europe stunned by financial crisis, leaves a dangerous legacy.
Oct 20, 2008 / Feature / Slavenka Drakulic
Smearing Colonel Vandeveld Smearing Colonel Vandeveld
Military commissions officials are using punitive psychological evaluations as part of a strategy to discredit and silence a former colleague turned whistleblower.
Oct 20, 2008 / Feature / Ross Tuttle
Voter Registration Flashpoints Voter Registration Flashpoints
As we head into the final stretch of the election season, alarming reports of dysfunctional voter registration, purges of the rolls, and possible voter suppression are surfacing w...
Oct 20, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
SNL: Amy Poehler Raps About Palin and Alaska SNL: Amy Poehler Raps About Palin and Alaska
Amy Poehler brings the house down with a Sarah Palin-inspired hip hop ode to Alaska and the McCain campaign.
Oct 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Saturday Night Live
“Socialist” Is Not an Epithet “Socialist” Is Not an Epithet
"There is always a charge that socialism does not fit human nature. We've encountered that for a long time. Maybe that's true. But can't people be educated? Can't people learn to ...
Oct 20, 2008 / John Nichols
How I Committed Voter Fraud How I Committed Voter Fraud
This past week, I committed voter fraud. Or, I should say, "voter fraud" inside the same sarcastic scare quotes that John McCain deployed when he recently invoked that old tricky ...
Oct 20, 2008 / Chris Hayes
“Senior Members of My Own Party” “Senior Members of My Own Party”
The most striking thing to me about Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama on this morning's Meet the Press, was when he discussed the persistent rumors about Obama's faith. H...
Oct 19, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Colin Powell on Why He Endorsed Obama Colin Powell on Why He Endorsed Obama
Colin Powell slams right-wing attacks on Obama's character and argues in a favor a generational change in the White House.
Oct 19, 2008 / Talking Points Memo
Censure Michele Bachmann Censure Michele Bachmann
On last night's episode of MSNBC's Hardball, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota charged Barack Obama and other members of Congress with sharing "anti-American" views. Defending th...
Oct 19, 2008 / Peter Rothberg