Obama Needs to Keep Promise to Rewrite NAFTA Obama Needs to Keep Promise to Rewrite NAFTA
The issue of trade policy -- which should be at the center of any discussion about renewing the American economy -- will finally garner some serious attention Thursday, as Preside...
Feb 18, 2009 / John Nichols
Around The Nation Around The Nation
It's the middle of another week, and still no Senator from Minnesota.John Nichols has the latest onthe GOP's Minnesota machinations here. As I've done the past couple ofweeks, I ...
Feb 18, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Don’t Bleed Resources in Afghanistan Don’t Bleed Resources in Afghanistan
Today, President Obama announced the deployment of 17,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan. Two decades and two days after the Soviet army withdrew from its disastrous occupa...
Feb 17, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Good News On the Stimulus The Good News On the Stimulus
So the stimulus is law. Whatever its shortcomings, there is a lot of good stuff in the bill. As just one example: my parents were visiting this weekend and the whole time my dad,...
Feb 17, 2009 / Chris Hayes
About Those F-22s About Those F-22s
Matt Yglesias, Matt Duss, and Robert Farley have all done a great job of critiquing this embarrassing crush note to the F-22 in the latest Atlantic. But since I did some report...
Feb 17, 2009 / Chris Hayes
All Hail Comrade Lindsey Graham All Hail Comrade Lindsey Graham
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's usual allies are not impressed with the Republican senator's suggestion that the time might have come to start nationalizing banks. "Did h...
Feb 17, 2009 / John Nichols
“Barack of Afpakia” “Barack of Afpakia”
Today's Wall Street Journal suggests that if President Obama pursues his plans for stepping up the war in Afghanistan, he'll have to fall back on the support of "Bush Republicans ...
Feb 17, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Holbrooke, Blair Note Iran’s Afghan Role Holbrooke, Blair Note Iran’s Afghan Role
Richard Holbrooke, US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, had nice words to say about Iran and its potential role in fixing Afghanistan, in a manner that the New York Times suggest...
Feb 16, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
A Recap of Last Week’s Action on the Hill A Recap of Last Week’s Action on the Hill
Courtesy of Greg Kaufmann: "There are three Republicans in the Senate who are writing this policy," Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio complained about the American Recovery and Reinv...
Feb 16, 2009 / Chris Hayes
One Congressman Who Gets It: Pete DeFazio One Congressman Who Gets It: Pete DeFazio
Who cast the most meaningful vote on the final version of the federal "stimulus" legislation? Here's a hint: It was not one of the Republican senators who extracted extreme compr...
Feb 15, 2009 / John Nichols