Obama in Moscow Obama in Moscow
On Monday, President Obama heads to Moscow for two days of talks with President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. He also plans to meet with Russian opposition le...
Jul 2, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mikey ‘n’ Me Mikey ‘n’ Me
Wrapup: We have a new "Think Again" column, picking up on the food fight between the Washington Post's Dana Milbank and The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney and the larger issues we...
Jul 2, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Totalitarian Rightists Put Orwellian Spin on Honduras Coup Totalitarian Rightists Put Orwellian Spin on Honduras Coup
To hear Rush Limbaugh and the tribunes of the totalitarian right tell it, everything is going swimmingly in Honduras. Yes, the military invaded the home of Honduran President Man...
Jul 2, 2009 / John Nichols
Washington: Even More Corrupt Than You Thought! Washington: Even More Corrupt Than You Thought!
The corrupting influence of monied interests is so established by now, such a dog-bites-man story that it can be hard to find novel and compelling ways to retell it. But luckily f...
Jul 2, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Whisky Tango Foxtrot? Whisky Tango Foxtrot?
It's encouraging that General Jim Jones, the national security adviser, seems to have laid down the law to US generals in Afghanistan: no more troops. That's not the same as less...
Jul 1, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Food Independence Day Food Independence Day
Thanks to the Serious Eats site for alerting me to a new July 4 campaign. Kitchen Gardeners International (the same people who successfully led the charge for a White House Kitch...
Jun 30, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Senator Al Franken Senator Al Franken
The last legal and political barriers to Al Franken taking his seat as the junion senator from Minnesota crumbled Tuesday, as Republican incumbent Norm Coleman finally conceded th...
Jun 30, 2009 / John Nichols
Is Americans for Financial Reform a “Waste of Time?” Is Americans for Financial Reform a “Waste of Time?”
In this week's Capitolism column I spotlight a new coalition of various progressive groups called Americans for Financial Reform. The idea is to be for the upcoming fight over fin...
Jun 30, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Ahmadinejad Meets O.J. Ahmadinejad Meets O.J.
In a distinctly Orwellian turn of events, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ("Mr. Sixty-Three Percent") has pledged to investigate the death of Neda Agha-Soltan. It reminds me ...
Jun 30, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Little to Celebrate in Iraq Little to Celebrate in Iraq
There's little to celebrate about the US pullback in Iraq. More than six years after the US invasion, Iraq is shattered. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead -- far more, inc...
Jun 30, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss