Real Peace — Or A Mirage? Real Peace — Or A Mirage?

One way to keep Bibi Netanyahu from making trouble is to keep him so busy meeting US envoys and diplomats that he doesn't have time for anything else. That appears to be President...

Jul 27, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss

This Week On The Hill This Week On The Hill

The House leaves town at the end of the week, the Senate one week later, and hopes for a health care bill before they vacate are all but nil. (Tell Congress to stick around and ge...

Jul 27, 2009 / Chris Hayes

Hope for Health Reform? Push Single-Payer Now Hope for Health Reform? Push Single-Payer Now

It is unsettling to listen as President Obama and House Speaker Pelosi talk up a health-care reform "plan" that has yet to take shape in any realistic form. The vagueness on the ...

Jul 26, 2009 / John Nichols

Ain’t Nothing Centrist About Them Ain’t Nothing Centrist About Them

At this moment -- when 72 percent of the nation supports a public planoption and 14,000 people lose their healthcare every day -- the HouseBlue Dogs and conservative Democratic S...

Jul 24, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

End the Needle Exchange Ban End the Needle Exchange Ban

This post was written by Sarah Jaffe, a blogger, freelance journalist and Nation intern.

The drug war : it has failed to reduce the number of Americans using illegal drugs, it has not significantly affected world production of those drugs, it has clogged the prison system with non-violent offenders and it has dehumanized a significant part of the American population.

Jul 24, 2009 / Peter Rothberg

Slacker Friday Slacker Friday

Wrapup: I've got a new "Think Again" column on healthcare reportingcalled "Why Not the Best?" here. On the Beast, I did this post on the Democrats and their fear of 1994,here....

Jul 24, 2009 / Eric Alterman

A Saad Story A Saad Story

Last December, Mike McConnell, the outgoing director of national intelligence, said that Osama bin Laden's son, Saad bin Laden "has left Iran" and is "probably in Pakistan." Yeste...

Jul 24, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss

Congressman Eric Cantor, R-Unethical Congressman Eric Cantor, R-Unethical

Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor has taken a lead in Republican attacks on expanding role of the federal government. But there are some expansions of government that do not bothe...

Jul 24, 2009 / John Nichols

Fact Checking Obama on Transparency Fact Checking Obama on Transparency

From crack DC intern Sebastian Jones: During last night's primetime press conference, Christi Parsons of the Chicago Tribune asked President Obama a pointed question about the tra...

Jul 23, 2009 / Chris Hayes

Under the Covers… Under the Covers…

Wrapup: I've got a new "Think Again" column on healthcare reporting called "Why Not the Best?" here. On the Beast, I did this post on the Democrats and their fear of 1994, he...

Jul 23, 2009 / Eric Alterman