Obama in Iraq: The Gift of a Timetable Obama in Iraq: The Gift of a Timetable
An Iraqi government desperate for credibility could receive no better gift than Obama's exit plan.
Jul 21, 2008 / Feature / Patrick Cockburn
Daydreaming and I’m Thinking of You Daydreaming and I’m Thinking of You
This Week: Congresswoman Kang takes a cruise, gets some strategic advice from Ho Chi Minh and finds that this is but a pause before the big showdown.
Jul 21, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
RadioNation With Laura Flanders RadioNation With Laura Flanders
Jen Marlowe reports on Darfur, Eli Pariser on MoveOn and a new sex columnist weighs in on Barack and Michelle.
Jul 21, 2008 / Radio Nation
Creeping Militarism? Creeping Militarism?
A strange week of war. Israeli historian Benny Morris placed a bloodcurdling and bizarre op-ed in the New York Times, insisting that only an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear faci...
Jul 21, 2008 / TomDispatch
Regime Change Regime Change
According to the AP, Maliki's spokesperson essentially just reiterated (in English!) his support for Obama's timeline. What's truly amazing about this turn of events is that it m...
Jul 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Mistranslation? Mistranslation?
Lots of others have commented on the absurd walkback of Maliki's explicit endorsement of Barack Obama's vision for a withdrawal timeline. But to me the most significant part of th...
Jul 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Netroots Nation Diggs Pelosi, Tubes Obama Netroots Nation Diggs Pelosi, Tubes Obama
Every major Democratic player came to Texas to engage with online activists who have been key to their success. So why do netroots continue to be cast as angry and estranged?
Jul 21, 2008 / Feature / Ari Melber
MoveOn @ Ten MoveOn @ Ten
I'm back from Austin and will be posting some thoughts on Netroots Nation later today. In the meantime, I wanted to link to the cover story I wrote about MoveOn. I had the somewh...
Jul 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Going Green Going Green
In his Washington Post column last Friday, EJ Dionne writes that Al Gore is playing "his usual role of unpaid party visionary by arguing that we can ease the climate crisis, the e...
Jul 20, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama in Afghanistan: Careful What You Wish For Obama in Afghanistan: Careful What You Wish For
He says Afghanistan is the war America should be fighting. But on this much-ballyhooed listening tour, will he be hearing anything he doesn't already know?
Jul 20, 2008 / Feature / Graham Usher