What We Talk About When We Talk About ACORN What We Talk About When We Talk About ACORN
Wrapup: Our Think Again column is called "Falling for the Far Right'sACORN Agenda" and deals with the manner in which the MSM got rolled byright wing re-working vis-a-vis ACORN. ...
Sep 24, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Obama At the UN: Think of Me as FDR, Not Bush Obama At the UN: Think of Me as FDR, Not Bush
Distancing himself from George Bush and embracing the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt -- to the point of quoting the 32nd president on the need for "the cooperative effort of the who...
Sep 23, 2009 / John Nichols
G20 Schemes Threaten Democracy, Sustainability G20 Schemes Threaten Democracy, Sustainability
PITTSBURGH – The G20 Summit that opens Thursday is unlikely to achieve much when it comes to restructuring the global economic order. That's good news for workers, farmers, cons...
Sep 23, 2009 / John Nichols
Kennedy Family Pick Paul Kirk Is New Massachusetts Senator Kennedy Family Pick Paul Kirk Is New Massachusetts Senator
Rejecting prospects who had sought and won statewide office, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has selected a veteran political insider, former Democratic National Committee ch...
Sep 23, 2009 / John Nichols
Protesting the G-20 Protesting the G-20
A Federal Judge in Pittsburgh ruled last week that six peace and justice groups can protest at this week's G-20 summit of the industrialized world's leading Finance Ministers and ...
Sep 22, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Will McChrystal Quit? Will McChrystal Quit?
Yesterday morning, at a meeting of the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative, a former top US military officer suggested that General Stanley McChrystal might resign from his ...
Sep 22, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Around The Nation Around The Nation
I'm off to Russia for a series of interviews looking at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (I'll be sure to ask people what they think of our controversies over so...
Sep 21, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What Obama Should Be Saying About a Public Option What Obama Should Be Saying About a Public Option
President Obama did all the Sunday morning talk shows, as part of a ramped-up campaign to promote his sincere if ill-defined belief that health care should be reformed, and he con...
Sep 21, 2009 / John Nichols
Obama Hints He’ll Resist McChrystal Obama Hints He’ll Resist McChrystal
Contrary to my own expectations, President Obama seems to be hesitant about announcing yet another escalation in Afghanistan. General McChrystal has thrown down the gauntlet, say...
Sep 21, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
AFL-CIO’s Trumka Embraces All Workers — Including Immigrants AFL-CIO’s Trumka Embraces All Workers — Including Immigrants
Richard Trumka's great strength as a leader of the AFL-CIO has always been his willingness to challenge this country labor movement to be better not just than its past but also it...
Sep 19, 2009 / John Nichols