Van Jones Makes Me Green with Happiness Van Jones Makes Me Green with Happiness
I am thrilled that President Obama has tapped Van Jones to serve as a special White House advisor. This appointment makes me think that Obama "gets it" because Van Jones ...
Mar 12, 2009 / The Notion / Melissa Harris-Perry
What’s Right – and Wrong – About NYT’s Op-Ed Hire What’s Right – and Wrong – About NYT’s Op-Ed Hire
After deciding it no longer wanted William Kristol to fill its pages with strategy memos for Sarah Palin and other rising stars on the right, The New York Times has added The Atlan...
Mar 11, 2009 / The Notion / Eyal Press
The Times’ New Conservative The Times’ New Conservative
Word is official that the Atlantic's Ross Douthat will get the coveted Times Op-Ed slot left vacant by Bill Kristol. Notwithstanding my desire to see more women on Op-Ed pages (and...
Mar 11, 2009 / The Notion / Chris Hayes
Time for a New Popular Front? Time for a New Popular Front?
The British press seems to have finally recovered from President Obama's supposed "diss" of Gordon Brown. Instead, today's papers wonder if the Troubles have returned to ...
Mar 11, 2009 / The Notion / D.D. Guttenplan
In Defense of Earmarks In Defense of Earmarks
The US Senate spent yesterday freaking out on Capitol Hill about the spending bill. Senators are wrangling about its passage because so many of the proposed spending items fall u...
Mar 10, 2009 / The Notion / Melissa Harris-Perry
Roger Cohen Lights It Up at The Times Roger Cohen Lights It Up at The Times
As we know from Ryan Lizza's profile of Rahm Emanuel in The New Yorker, the Obama White House has been reading New York Times columnist Paul Krugman closely in recent weeks. One c...
Mar 10, 2009 / The Notion / Eyal Press
Memories of the Miners’ Strike, 25 Years On Memories of the Miners’ Strike, 25 Years On
This week is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the British miners' strike, the epic confrontation over pit closures between the National Union of Mineworkers and Margaret Thatcher's ...
Mar 9, 2009 / The Notion / Maria Margaronis
What to Do With 1,200 Pounds of Bull What to Do With 1,200 Pounds of Bull
You can learn a lot from obituaries -- and recently there have been some great ones. In February, it was Conchita Cintrón, a celebrated female bullfighter. Cin...
Mar 5, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
As GM Goes, So Goes… As GM Goes, So Goes…
As I read "Tough Times in Troubled Towns," today's third installment of Nick Turse's Tough Times series, this one on the nationwide meltdown of America's most vulnerable ...
Feb 23, 2009 / The Notion / TomDispatch
Blackwater’s Noble Gas Blackwater’s Noble Gas
The name search took a year, while the company became persona non grata in Iraq, but now it's a reality. The notorious Blackwater Worldwide has officially rebranded itself Xe. Ac...
Feb 20, 2009 / The Notion / TomDispatch