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Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo

How politically credible are the leading figures in the Tea Party movement that is rallying this weekend at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville? Let them Tea Party proclaimers ...

Feb 5, 2010 / John Nichols

Protests in Iran Protests in Iran

A week after the contested June 2009 presidential election, the image of blood covering the face of 27-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan dead in a street in Tehran became the symbol of the...

Feb 4, 2010 / Peter Rothberg

Free Speech for People Free Speech for People

My colleague and friend John Nichols' new post appropriately lauds Rep. Donna Edwards' proposed legislation to redress the damage done by the Supreme Court in its decision in the ...

Feb 2, 2010 / Peter Rothberg

Donna Edwards’ No Corporate Monopoly of Elections Amendment Donna Edwards’ No Corporate Monopoly of Elections Amendment

Maryland Congresswoman Donna Edwards turned to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis for guidance in framing the Constitutional amendment she proposed Tuesday as the right and neces...

Feb 2, 2010 / John Nichols

No Defense for This Budget No Defense for This Budget

Deficit hysteria has reached new levels yet where is the attention to anout of control defense budget that is now the largest since World War II? While the Obama Admistration's th...

Feb 2, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Talking to the Taliban, Again Talking to the Taliban, Again

Is there any chance that the logjam on negotiating an end to the war in Afghanistan is loosening up? So far the United States seems to be taking a hands-off attitude.

Feb 2, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss

Groundhog’s Day Budgeting: Again, Obama Underfunds Job Growth Groundhog’s Day Budgeting: Again, Obama Underfunds Job Growth

The 2009 stimulus bill that was supposed to spur job creation at a sufficient rate to prevent double-digit unemployment might have done so if it had been approved at the level and ...

Feb 1, 2010 / John Nichols

Slacker Sunday Slacker Sunday

The State of the Union and the State of the Media.

Feb 1, 2010 / Eric Alterman

Around The Nation Around The Nation

Hopefully everyone had a chance to read what Jeremy Scahill calls the saddest and most moving story he's ever written: his interview with Mohammed Kinani, father of the younge...

Feb 1, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Insulting China Insulting China

Just like Hong Kong, soon enough Taiwan -- the so-called Republic of China -- will be absorbed into China proper. It's a goner. The sheer force of China's gravitational pull will d...

Feb 1, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss

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