Health Care Bill Advances, as Harry Reid Trumps Sarah Palin Health Care Bill Advances, as Harry Reid Trumps Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin may have the headlines. But Harry Reid has a health-care reform bill, and it is advancing. Indeed, with Saturday night's 60-39 Senate vote to open a historic debate o...
Nov 21, 2009 / John Nichols
Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan
Bill Moyers, who was at the side of President Lyndon Johnson at the time when disastrous decisions were being made to escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that was Vietnam, ...
Nov 21, 2009 / John Nichols
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
My new Think Again column, called "History Isn't a Dirty Word," about the incredible amnesia shown by the MSM regarding the Bush presidency is here; my new Nation column,...
Nov 20, 2009 / Eric Alterman
An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan
President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving. Before doing so, he would be wise to consider an alternative which has, until...
Nov 20, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
House Rebels Force Fed Audit, Real Economy Onto Agenda House Rebels Force Fed Audit, Real Economy Onto Agenda
The secretive Federal Reserve, former lair of "masters of the universe" like Alan Greenspan and Tim Geithner and current engine of a Wall-Street-first, Main-Street-last "recovery,...
Nov 20, 2009 / John Nichols
Bad for the Jews Bad for the Jews
My new Nation column, on Marty Peretz's New Republic as being "Bad for the Jews" is here (I took a relatively high road here, and did not get personal abo...
Nov 19, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Senate Health Bill Rejects Anti-Choice Extremes Senate Health Bill Rejects Anti-Choice Extremes
The Senate healthcare bill unveiled Wednesday night by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, is not exactly the cure for all of what ails America. But the 2,074-page document sig...
Nov 19, 2009 / John Nichols
Chongqing: Socialism in One City Chongqing: Socialism in One City
I'm writing today from Chongqing, a vast city in central China that is China's gateway to its western regions. By some accounts, Chongqing is the largest city in the world, a munc...
Nov 18, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Real Simple Economics Real Simple Economics
Chuck Collins, co-founder of United for a Fair Economy and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, describes the difference between this financial crisis and those of...
Nov 18, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
GM “Recovery” Strategy: Close Plants, Lay Off Workers GM “Recovery” Strategy: Close Plants, Lay Off Workers
The headlines declare that General Motors is "recovering." Despite continuing to lose money at what historically would have been identified as an astronomical rate, the auto comp...
Nov 18, 2009 / John Nichols