Obama’s Iraq Plan Ain’t It Obama’s Iraq Plan Ain’t It
It's hard not to take a glass-half-empty attitude toward President Obama's Iraq speech today -- especially when John McCain is praising his policy and prominent Democrats are crit...
Feb 27, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Around The Nation Around The Nation
I'm on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopolous on Sundaymorning. The topic? President Obama's proposed $3.5 trillion budget. Inour lead editorial this week we offered cautious...
Feb 27, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
We Lost Trillions We Lost Trillions
In this week's column on the Obama foreclosure plan I write: This is all significant progress over the callous inaction of the Bush administration. But though the Obama foreclosu...
Feb 27, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Freeman Appointed to Key Intel Post Freeman Appointed to Key Intel Post
All's well that ends well. After much huffing and puffing by the neocons -- from an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal to blog pontification at the Weekly Standard, the Middle East...
Feb 26, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Strange Victory, Strange Defeat Strange Victory, Strange Defeat
We've got a new "Think Again" column herecalled, "Thank God for Gitmo." I've also got a new Nation column called "War is Over (If You Want It)here. Ireally like the hed of t...
Feb 26, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Math Is Hard Math Is Hard
Since I've been giving Gary Gensler such a hard time for refusing to admit a mistake, I thought it would be appropriate to pointed out just how colossally I screwed up the math in...
Feb 26, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Hate Movie Night at the Capitol Hate Movie Night at the Capitol
Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders -- a politician whose penchant for over-the-top self promotion exceeds that of global past masters such as Binyamin Netanyahu, Tony Blair and J...
Feb 26, 2009 / John Nichols
Coming Soon: Universal Savings? Coming Soon: Universal Savings?
Just got off a briefing with OMB Director Pete Orszag. I asked him what part of the budget he was surprised hadn't gotten more attention. His answer: universal savings. One of th...
Feb 26, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Just Say: “I Screwed Up” Just Say: “I Screwed Up”
In my column, Never Say You're Sorry, I wrote about Gary Gensler, the Obama administration's nominee to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Yesterday the Senate Agricul...
Feb 26, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Open Letter to Defend Shirin Ebadi Open Letter to Defend Shirin Ebadi
From the Campaign for Peace and Democracy comes this open letter in defense of Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate and defender of women's rights and human rights...
Feb 26, 2009 / Katha Pollitt