Ratings Race: Can McCain Beat Palin? Ratings Race: Can McCain Beat Palin?
ST. PAUL -- The numbers are in for Sarah Palin's Republican National Convention speech, and they're pretty remarkable. Some 37.2 million viewers watched Palin deliver a sharp, fr...
Sep 4, 2008 / John Nichols
Community Organizers Fight Back Community Organizers Fight Back
Organizers are not particularly practiced at taking things lying down. Surprise! "I have ‘actual responsibilities,'" said Jacqueline del Valle, a community organizer in the B...
Sep 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Cheney Blusters Through the Caucasus Cheney Blusters Through the Caucasus
Leave aside the fact that it's hard to imagine how to invest $1 billion in aid to the tiny rogue nation of Georgia. Dick Cheney, scowl and bluster on display, is cruising through ...
Sep 4, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Sarah Palin Smokescreen The Sarah Palin Smokescreen
"Here's the deal: Palin is the latest G.O.P. distraction," Bob Herbertwrote in a New York Times op-edon Tuesday. "She's meant to shift attention away from the real issueof this ...
Sep 4, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
GOP Goes After… Community Organizers? GOP Goes After… Community Organizers?
You know what's fun? Sitting in a room with thousands of people who run the country and listening to them unleash their full fury at how unfairly they're been treated. It's like l...
Sep 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Spiro T. Palin Spiro T. Palin
ST. PAUL – Forty years ago, mounting a comeback campaign after losing a presidential race eight years earlier, Richard Nixon secured the Republican nomination and then selected ...
Sep 4, 2008 / John Nichols
Sarah Palin Owns the Hall, But What About the Country? Sarah Palin Owns the Hall, But What About the Country?
ST. PAUL – Say what you will about Sarah Palin. Love her or despise her, celebrate or denounce her, but recognize this: The governor of Alaska has not just electrified the cons...
Sep 4, 2008 / John Nichols
Notes on Political Cant Notes on Political Cant
You know how if you repeat a word long and often enough it begins to become a different word: the sounds break off from each other and thin out and you achieve some sort of altere...
Sep 3, 2008 / Chris Hayes
An Open Letter on Behalf of Amy Goodman An Open Letter on Behalf of Amy Goodman
Dear Pro-Democracy Colleagues, We join with you in condemning the arrest and harassment of Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and members of her crew on the first day of the Republi...
Sep 3, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Party of Taft The Party of Taft
At one level, yesterday's Ron Paul event was a political sideshow. (This despite the fact it drew some big names: EMceed by none other than Tucker Carlson and addressed by Grover ...
Sep 3, 2008 / Chris Hayes