The Amendment Hustle The Amendment Hustle
Greg Kaufmann, who has been blogging about the DC voting rights legislation, writes that events have reached a critical stage and Nation readers can play a crucial role. Is there...
Feb 26, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
The Draft Sirota Campaign Begins The Draft Sirota Campaign Begins
There's been some pretty awesome grassroots mobilization around MSNBC's 10pm time slot, with Facebook groups devoted both to Sam Seder and Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks. Today Chr...
Feb 25, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Update on DC Voting Rights Update on DC Voting Rights
Greg Kaufmann, who's been following developments closely writes: Don't count your 60 Senate votes before they hatch… Look, it definitely looks good. However, there are a coupl...
Feb 25, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Chas Freeman for NIC: Lots at Stake Chas Freeman for NIC: Lots at Stake
A thunderous, coordinated assault against one of President Obama's intelligence picks is now underway. It started in a few right-wing blogs, migrated to semi-official mouthpieces ...
Feb 25, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Offers a Comprehensive “Yes, We Can!” Obama Offers a Comprehensive “Yes, We Can!”
Barack Obama's not-a-State of the Union address sounded precisely like a State of the Union address, as the president offered a sober assessment of a recession that "is real and (...
Feb 24, 2009 / John Nichols
The Ross-Iran Controversy The Ross-Iran Controversy
By now it's apparent that Dennis Ross, the controversial former official from the Washington Institute for Near East Affairs, didn't get the post he wanted, namely, special envoy ...
Feb 24, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
End Mountaintop Removal End Mountaintop Removal
Thanks to author and activist Jeff Biggers for alerting me to a powerful appeal made recently to President Obama to immediately halt mountaintop removal, a radical form of coal mi...
Feb 24, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Voting Rights for DC! Voting Rights for DC!
Maybe. It looks like I might finally have a congressperson who can, you know, actually vote. The DC Voting Rights Act just passed cloture in the senate, 62-34. It would temporaril...
Feb 24, 2009 / Chris Hayes
A Popular Obama Takes to the Bully Pulpit A Popular Obama Takes to the Bully Pulpit
What Barack Obama is going to deliver to Congress tonight is not -- repeat not -- a State of the Union address. But the president will make it sound like one. Obama will use the...
Feb 24, 2009 / John Nichols
What Will New York Do? What Will New York Do?
Now that thirty years of deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy have failed so spectacularly, creating an economic catastrophe in its wake, the American people are beginning to...
Feb 23, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel