Sanders Stands on Principle: No Reform w/out Public Option Sanders Stands on Principle: No Reform w/out Public Option
If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to get the 60 votes he will need to break a Republican filibuster and pass a health care reform bill, he's going to have to include a ro...
Nov 27, 2009 / John Nichols
Another Helping of FDR Please Another Helping of FDR Please
President Obama has produced a credible, if not exactly inspired Thanksgiving Proclamation. Most of the statement relies on the usual boilerplate language employed by our recent ...
Nov 26, 2009 / John Nichols
Filibuster Follies Filibuster Follies
With 35 million people uninsured, and Big Insurance on the verge of receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies through healthcare reform, the idea that a Blanche Lincol...
Nov 25, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama’s “Finish the Job” Talk Sets Stage for Afghan Troop Surge Obama’s “Finish the Job” Talk Sets Stage for Afghan Troop Surge
President Obama plans to formally announce on December 1 his decision with regard to the request from some of his more ambitious generals for a massive troop surge in Afghanistan....
Nov 25, 2009 / John Nichols
Reagan Would Fail “Purity Test” Proposed for GOP Reagan Would Fail “Purity Test” Proposed for GOP
The most rigidly conservatives members of the Republican National Committee are circulating a proposal to establish a purity test for the party's candidates. If adopted, the part...
Nov 24, 2009 / John Nichols
A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer
BEIJING -- Ambassador Yu Qingtai is China's point man on global warming. As special representative to the climate change talks for China's ministry of foreign affairs, Yu is a for...
Nov 24, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Coal Country Coal Country
A stunning film that exposes the devastation of mountaintop removal coal mining to the forests, streams, and communities of Appalachia, Coal Country puts the personal stories of re...
Nov 23, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Can China Help on Afghanistan? Can China Help on Afghanistan?
BEIJING--During President Obama's recent visit to China, he got some advice on Afghanistan from Chinese government officials – and an offer of Chinese assistance toward a negoti...
Nov 23, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Around the Nation Around the Nation
In his contribution to Going Rouge: An American Nightmare, The Nation's Washington, D.C. Editor, Chris Hayes, quotes a joke from a friend in publishing: In the future the Internet ...
Nov 22, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel