Realizing the Promise Realizing the Promise
I'm here at the Hilton ballroom is Washington DC at the Realizing the Promise forum. It's organized by the Center for Community Change and the Gameliel foundation and is a kind of...
Dec 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Obama’s Gaffe on India Obama’s Gaffe on India
It was, at least, a semi-gaffe. Asked about India's response to the terror attacks, Obama had this to say: "Sovereign nations obviously have a right to protect themselves.... Be...
Dec 3, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Bread, Bombs, and the Big Stimulus Bread, Bombs, and the Big Stimulus
In 2007, over 37 million Americans, or 12.5 percent of the US population, lived below the federal poverty line--$21,200 for a family of four (well below the income truly required ...
Dec 3, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
He’s Baaaaack! Holbrooke, that is. He’s Baaaaack! Holbrooke, that is.
The other shoe is dropping. Now that Hillary is feathering her nest at State, it seems likely that a flock of Democratic hawks -- or are they vultures? -- will be settling in, too...
Dec 3, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Can you help “Nickie”? Can you help “Nickie”?
In the endless debate over abortion, we can forget the concrete reality in which pregnant girls and women so often live. Feminists for Life and other anti-choice groups make it so...
Dec 2, 2008 / Katha Pollitt
Grijalva for Interior Secretary Grijalva for Interior Secretary
Now that President-elect Barack Obama has put together his administration's economic, foreign-policy and national-security teams, the transition process comes to the interesting p...
Dec 2, 2008 / John Nichols
World AIDS Day World AIDS Day
Despite the dramatic costs that the AIDS virus is still exacting, many people have the mistaken impression that the epidemic has been virtually conquered in the US and is now just...
Dec 1, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Robert Gates: Wrong Man for the Job Robert Gates: Wrong Man for the Job
Barack Obama not only had the good judgment to oppose the war in Iraqbut , as he told us earlier this year, "I want to end the mindset thatgot us into war." So it is troubling th...
Dec 1, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama’s New Team at State, Defense, NSC Obama’s New Team at State, Defense, NSC
The Wall Street Journal, evidently keen readers of this blog, devoted an editorial on Friday to my criticism of Barack Obama's foreign policy team. Its November 28 editorial, enti...
Dec 1, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Why Obama’s Got “Complete Confidence” In Clinton Why Obama’s Got “Complete Confidence” In Clinton
So it will be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The senator from New York, who lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama because she supported authorizing President Bush t...
Nov 30, 2008 / John Nichols