Smart Defense Smart Defense
Last month, Congressman Barney Frank called for a 25 percent cut in the defense budget--approximately $150 billion in annual spending--saying, "We don't need all these fancy new ...
Nov 18, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rewarding War Crimes Rewarding War Crimes
A doddering old former US secretary of state wants President-elect Obama to do more than keep Robert Gates on a secretary of defense. He suggests that Obama ought to retain W.'s p...
Nov 18, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
You Go To Crisis With The Government You Have You Go To Crisis With The Government You Have
My Swiss-junket-mate, Matt Yglesias makes a good point about the distance between the abstract ideal policy vis a vis GM and the auto-industry and the real-world one we're likely ...
Nov 17, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Choosing Obama’s Successor Choosing Obama’s Successor
Barack Obama resigned his US Senate seat on a grace note. Unfortunately, the process of replacing him may not be so graceful as his exit from the chamber in which he has served f...
Nov 17, 2008 / John Nichols
Socialism With a Withered State Socialism With a Withered State
Apologies for the week-long hiatus. I was on a trip in Switzerland (about which more in a bit) and trying amidst a heavy schedule to pay attention to developments back at home. Se...
Nov 17, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Obama, Iran, and the US-Iraq SOFA Obama, Iran, and the US-Iraq SOFA
Why, after so many months, was the US-Iraq security pact approved now? True, the two countries were facing a deadline of December 31, when the UN authority for the occupation expi...
Nov 17, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Treasury Secretary Jon Corzine? Treasury Secretary Jon Corzine?
Everyone is excited about the fact that President-elect Barack Obama is talking with New York Senator Hillary Clinton about the prospect that she might serve as Secretary of State...
Nov 14, 2008 / John Nichols
O’Hanlon Gives Obama Some Bad Advice O’Hanlon Gives Obama Some Bad Advice
In today's Wall Street Journal, a top hawkish Democrat -- a supporter of Hillary Clinton in the primaries whose hardline views on Iraq forced Hillary to break with him -- gives Ba...
Nov 14, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Move Heats Up Race to Fill His Senate Seat Obama Move Heats Up Race to Fill His Senate Seat
Barack Obama is about to create one of the most attractive vacancies in American politics. And two of U.S. House's leading progressive members would like to fill it. The preside...
Nov 13, 2008 / John Nichols
Ideas for Change Ideas for Change
Mark Green, president of the New Democracy Project and Air America,called me on the phone the other day to talk about the now released book he co-edited, Change for America: A Pr...
Nov 13, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel