The Unbearable Lightness of Election 2008 The Unbearable Lightness of Election 2008
This should be a big election about big issues. The greatest financial crisis since the Depression. Soaring global debt. Collapsing public infrastructure. A broken health care...
Sep 16, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ralph was Right Ralph was Right
From the credit-where-credit-is-due file. The Nader campaign sends along an email pointing out that Nader more or less predicted the current meltdown: Eight years ago, consumer a...
Sep 16, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Are You the Very Model of a Modern Vice-President? Are You the Very Model of a Modern Vice-President?
From Salon's War Room comes this quote of the day, from Iowa's Lt. Gov. Patty Judge, a Democrat: "Sarah knows how to field-dress a moose. I know how to castrate a calf. Neither ...
Sep 16, 2008 / Katha Pollitt
Bringing China into the Middle East Bringing China into the Middle East
Speaking last week at the Middle East Institute, Ken Pollack of the Brookings Institution surprised me by saying that the United States ought to invite China into the Middle East ...
Sep 15, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Campaigning to Restore the Constitution Campaigning to Restore the Constitution
Two hundred and twenty-one years ago this week, the Constitutional Convention that had gathered in the touchstone city of Philadelphia to replace the Articles of Confederation wit...
Sep 15, 2008 / John Nichols
Change That’s Kind of Hard to Believe In Change That’s Kind of Hard to Believe In
Senator Obama did a call this morning with some of his key economic advisors including Paul Volcker, Bob Rubin, Lawrence Summers and Laura Tyson about the state of the financial ...
Sep 15, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Deep Thought Deep Thought
It's a bit strange that we've been spending so much time digging into the town politics of Wasilla, AK (pop. 9,780) while the entire American financial system implodes. Big electi...
Sep 15, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Return to Sanity Return to Sanity
Dick Cavett got it about right when he wrote the other day, "There's something almost funny in the idea that she [Palin] is being speedily stuffed, Strasbourg-goose-style, with kn...
Sep 15, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Appreciation: David Foster Wallace Appreciation: David Foster Wallace
One of the most vexing frustrations of the human condition is the fact that we are forever caged inside our own minds. Love, romantic and familial, and friendship, bring us as clo...
Sep 14, 2008 / Chris Hayes
“Come Talk about Sarah Palin” “Come Talk about Sarah Palin”
ANCHORAGE – Ed Schultz, the nationally syndicated radio host, came to Alaska looking to find out about Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The North Dakota-based ...
Sep 14, 2008 / John Nichols