Auto Bailout Blues: Spin, Lies and Layoffs Auto Bailout Blues: Spin, Lies and Layoffs
The madness of the approach adopted by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to war in Vietnam was summed up by the American major who said after the destruction of the Vietnamese...
May 16, 2009 / John Nichols
Mary Ann Glendon’s Deliberate Insult Mary Ann Glendon’s Deliberate Insult
President Obama heads to Notre Dame on Sunday to receive an honorarydegree and deliver the commencement address. Conservative Catholicshave opposed the university's awarding of a ...
May 15, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Free Aung San Suu Kyi Free Aung San Suu Kyi
Yesterday morning, the Burmese ruling junta moved Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from her Rangoon home, where she is serving house arrest, to Burma's notorious Insein P...
May 15, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
Our new "Think Again" column is called "Sex and the Single Justice" andit can be found here. (It also contains an update on George Will's environmental reporting...) 1959...
May 15, 2009 / Eric Alterman
‘There is no deadline for talks, okay?’ ‘There is no deadline for talks, okay?’
Those who follow this space know that I've been harping on the idea of avoiding a deadline for talks with Iran. There's no question that Israel, its allies, and various hawkish g...
May 14, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama and Congress Obama and Congress
Via Yglesias, Michael Scherer has a very good piece in Time about Obama's approach to congressional relations: Obama is emerging, on the other hand, as a President who convenes ...
May 14, 2009 / Chris Hayes
House Backs Obama’s Afghan Surge, Amid Calls for Exit Strategy House Backs Obama’s Afghan Surge, Amid Calls for Exit Strategy
"Sometimes great presidents make mistakes," declared Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern as he announced his intention to vote against $97 billion in "emergency&q...
May 14, 2009 / John Nichols
Let’s Make Every Vote Count Let’s Make Every Vote Count
This is one of a series of posts on electoral reform and just democracy. You can read the first post in the series here. Quick: When did we elect the President last year? If you...
May 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Saberi’s Release A Good Omen for US-Iran Talks Saberi’s Release A Good Omen for US-Iran Talks
Here's what I wonder: If an Iranian journalist came to the United States, deliberately let his reporter's credentials expire, took a job working for an important US agency that ha...
May 13, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Save Troy Davis Save Troy Davis
I last wrote about Troy Davis in this space in July of 2007. He was scheduled for execution for a murder he maintains he did not commit. Seven out of nine witnesses agree -- havin...
May 13, 2009 / Peter Rothberg