Show Trials in Tehran Show Trials in Tehran
As Roger Cohen's lengthy, analytical piece in the New York Times Sunday magazine described, the Obama administration hasn't quite figured out how to respond to the continuing turm...
Aug 3, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
This Week On The Hill This Week On The Hill
The House has already hit the road -- gone until September -- so the Senate has the joint to itself. I asked one Senate staffer what the rationale is behind the House taki...
Aug 3, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever
How should serious supporters of healthcare reform spend the month of August? Not by getting trapped in the narrow "debate" between "party of no" Republicans who favor no reform ...
Aug 2, 2009 / John Nichols
Sonia Sotomayor is Not a “Consequence” Sonia Sotomayor is Not a “Consequence”
Politics does not get much creepier than the line from conservative Republican senators who say they have decided to support the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on ...
Aug 2, 2009 / John Nichols
Key Committee Backs Health Plan; Pelosi Allows Single-Payer Vote Key Committee Backs Health Plan; Pelosi Allows Single-Payer Vote
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday evening voted 31-28 for a health-care reform plan that uses a relatively robust "public option" and other strategies to insure th...
Aug 1, 2009 / John Nichols
Stolen Beauty Stolen Beauty
Ahava Beauty Products promises "beauty secrets from the Dead Sea" but the real secret is that its products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the Occupied Territory...
Jul 31, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
Wrapup: I did two columns about the Skip Gates affair this week, God help me. The first one is my "Think Again column." It's called "Why Does BarackObama Hate America? (Hint: Bla...
Jul 31, 2009 / Eric Alterman
US Tells Israel: Iran Has Eight Weeks US Tells Israel: Iran Has Eight Weeks
Robert Gates, Jim Jones, and other US officials traipsing in and out of Israel this week have told Israeli officials to stop "ranting and raving" about Iran for, oh, about eight m...
Jul 31, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Blue-Dog “Fix” Makes Health Reform “Cure” Worse Than Disease Blue-Dog “Fix” Makes Health Reform “Cure” Worse Than Disease
More and more House Democrats are pledging to oppose compromises on health care reform now being entertained by at least some aides to President Obama and Democrat leaders in the ...
Jul 31, 2009 / John Nichols
Democrats Go to Bat for Big Pharma Democrats Go to Bat for Big Pharma
Sebastian Jones catches some under-the-radar shenanigans from two house Democrats and a Republican on behalf of Big Pharma: At a North Carolina town hall yesterday, the Presiden...
Jul 30, 2009 / Chris Hayes