Winning the Lobster Marriage Debate With Colbert Winning the Lobster Marriage Debate With Colbert
A surprising number of U.S. House members still stumble through their "Better Know a District" segments on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." Not Chellie Pingree, the freshma...
Aug 11, 2009 / John Nichols
Your Questions About Health Care Reform Answered Your Questions About Health Care Reform Answered
Ok, so there's been a lot of misinformation about proposals to reform the health insurance industry and provide (near) universal coverage. Understandable! It's complicated stuff. H...
Aug 11, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Readers Real and Ideal Readers Real and Ideal
(I posted this at The Best American Poetry last Friday. I'm going to be blogging there regularly about poetry. I hope you'll take a look.) I love the Gertrude Stein quip David ...
Aug 10, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
White House Opening to Hezbollah, Hamas? White House Opening to Hezbollah, Hamas?
Last week, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, John Brennan, the White House's top adviser on terrorism, described the outlines of...
Aug 10, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Death of Mehsud The Death of Mehsud
The death of Baitullah Mehsud, if true, is a good thing for all concerned, not least for the people of Waziristan. He was an oppressive thug and a terrorist with no redeeming soci...
Aug 8, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Cheney-Like Secrecy of the Obama White House The Cheney-Like Secrecy of the Obama White House
Those of us who proposed the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney for violating his oath of office and engaging in a Nixon-on-steroids spree of high crimes and misdemeanors b...
Aug 8, 2009 / John Nichols
HCAN Turns Up the Heat HCAN Turns Up the Heat
In 2007, USAction Executive Director Jeff Blum and Richard Kirsch,then-director of Citizen Action of New York, were tossing around theidea of how best to advance the fight for qu...
Aug 7, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
I've got a new Think Again called "The Mainstream Media Opens the Doorto Hate" here.
CHARLES PIERCE
NEWTON, MA.
Hey Doc:
Aug 7, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Whom do you Write your Poems for? Whom do you Write your Poems for?
It's easy to describe the readers I have in mind when I write my column in The Nation: the 185,000 Nation subscribers, who are mostly liberals, progressives and leftists of vari...
Aug 7, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Justice Sonia Sotomayor Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been confirmed to serve as the 111th justice on the United States Supreme Court. President Barack Obama declared that the vote, by an overwhelming 68-31...
Aug 6, 2009 / John Nichols