Worried By Obama’s Picks? Support Anti-War Groups Worried By Obama’s Picks? Support Anti-War Groups
Tens of millions of Americans will prayed for peace as they celebrated Thanksgiving Day, and they will do so many more times during the coming Holiday Season. Even non-believers ...
Nov 28, 2008 / John Nichols
Mumbai Terror Could Cascade Across Region Mumbai Terror Could Cascade Across Region
The bloody terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, have the potential to cascade across the region. If Pakistan's army and intelligence service, which have long supported anti-India t...
Nov 28, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
The US-Iraq Deal Doesn’t Bode Well The US-Iraq Deal Doesn’t Bode Well
Secular and nationalist opponents of the Baghdad regime of Nouri al-Maliki failed, and spectacularly so, to block the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), and their failure ...
Nov 27, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
A President Who Spoke to America on Thanksgiving A President Who Spoke to America on Thanksgiving
The surrender to corporate greed and Wall Street excess that is the legacy of the Bush-Cheney interregnum left Americans in a difficult spot this Thanksgiving. To a greater exten...
Nov 27, 2008 / John Nichols
Andy Stern on the New Moment Andy Stern on the New Moment
Like any reformer, SEIU President Andy Stern has his admirers and his critics. I understand the critics' arguments. But I also think Stern is a visionary labor figure. When in ...
Nov 25, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Power Shift 2009 Power Shift 2009
In November of 2007 the Energy Action Coalition brought together more than 6,000 young activists for the first ever national youth conference to solve the climate crisis. Watch hi...
Nov 25, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Block Bush’s Pardons Block Bush’s Pardons
Our friends at Democrats.com have launched a campaign in support of Rep. Jerry Nadler's H.Res. 1531. The New York City Congressman and Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the C...
Nov 24, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Bailouts for Bankers, Not a Cent for Autoworkers Bailouts for Bankers, Not a Cent for Autoworkers
This is the part of our nation's surreal economic crisis that seems particularly surreal: The US auto industry, which employs 3 million Americans in auto plants, parts and suppli...
Nov 24, 2008 / John Nichols
Is Personnel Policy? Is Personnel Policy?
Yglesias (via his cronies at CAP) reports that Melody Barnes will run Obama's Domestic Policy Council. That's good news. I think she counts as a "dyed-in-the-wool progressive." ...
Nov 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Ain’t No Love In the Heart of the Citi Ain’t No Love In the Heart of the Citi
Lots of bailout news today, which is never a very good sign. Mark Thoma rounds up the opinions on it here and I'm still digesting, but my sense is that, as Krugman says it's "a lo...
Nov 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes