Special Slacker Thursday Edition Special Slacker Thursday Edition
First off, we have a new "Think Again" column entitled "Free Ride to theFinish Line," about guess who, which is here. Second off, I have nothing much to say about the inauguratio...
Jan 22, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Appoint a Cuomo to the Senate? Yes, Mario Appoint a Cuomo to the Senate? Yes, Mario
Caroline Kennedy is now officially out of the race for the New York U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "I informed Governor Paterson today that for p...
Jan 22, 2009 / John Nichols
Wise Words on the 17th Amendment Wise Words on the 17th Amendment
(Daniel Pollitt, who is professor of law emeritus at the University of North Carolina and my uncle, sent me his reflections on The Blogojevich-Burris flap. I figured I should put ...
Jan 22, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Harry Reid on EFCA Harry Reid on EFCA
Yesterday, Senate Democrats convened the third annual Senate Progressive Summit, a day-long series of panels with the senators and various progressive media folks, Mother Jones, T...
Jan 22, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Exit Caroline Kennedy? Exit Caroline Kennedy?
Caroline Kennedy, briefly the frontrunner to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the senator from New York, is now reportedly out of the running. Or maybe she is still ...
Jan 22, 2009 / John Nichols
How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be? How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be?
Note: A shorter version of this essay appears in today's edition of the Wall Street Journal. President Barack Obama takes office at a time defined by hope and fear in equal measu...
Jan 21, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Pete Seeger for the Nobel Pete Seeger for the Nobel
This past Sunday, Pete Seeger became the oldest person to perform publicly as part of Barack Obama's inauguration festivities. Singing the "greatest song about America ever writ...
Jan 20, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Obama and the Middle East, Part V Obama and the Middle East, Part V
This is the last of a five-part series on Obama's Middle East. Parts I-IV dealt with the war on terrorism, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. The first thing t...
Jan 20, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
A Commander-in-Chief Elected to End a War A Commander-in-Chief Elected to End a War
Barack Obama's presidency will be recorded in the history books as having begun on January 20, 2009, in Washington, D.C. In fact, it began on another, colder January night in Du...
Jan 20, 2009 / John Nichols
Obama’s Vindication of Thomas Paine Obama’s Vindication of Thomas Paine
"I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States ofAmerica will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of ourfounders will live on in our time." Barack Obama, ...
Jan 20, 2009 / John Nichols