Ballots and Bullets for Afghanistan Ballots and Bullets for Afghanistan
The upcoming election promises to be a farce, marred by backroom deals and voter fraud. Meanwhile, the United States continues to militarize Afghanistan at an alarming rate.
The Power of Online Politics The Power of Online Politics
The Nation's Ari Melber shares his insights from the Netroots Nation conference on the direction Internet-based organizing is taking.
Aug 18, 2009 / MSNBC
‘Do the Right Thing’: Still a Racial Rorschach at 20 ‘Do the Right Thing’: Still a Racial Rorschach at 20
Is Spike Lee's seminal film still relevant in the Obama era?
Aug 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Viveca Greene and Chris Tinson
Don’t Let the White House Spin the Public Option Debate Don’t Let the White House Spin the Public Option Debate
President Obama referred to the creation of a public program to compete with for-profit health insurers as a mere "sliver" of his reform agenda and then told a Colorado town hall ...
Aug 18, 2009 / John Nichols
Baucus & Grassley Hijack Obama’s Agenda Baucus & Grassley Hijack Obama’s Agenda
Barack Obama received 67 million votes in the last election. Senator Max Baucus of Montana received 349,000 votes when he ran for re-election last year. His Republican counterpart ...
Aug 18, 2009 / Ari Berman
Squandered Opportunity Squandered Opportunity
After a brilliant beginning, President Obama appears to be abandoning his principles on healthcare by hedging on a public option. What should disappointed Democrats do?
Aug 17, 2009 / William Greider
Has Labor Been Left Hanging? Has Labor Been Left Hanging?
Security guards in Philadelphia face an uphill battle to unionize with the Employee Free Choice Act stalled in Congress.
Aug 17, 2009 / Feature / Sarah Jaffe
Bloggers Back Obama’s Agenda, Not His Strategy Bloggers Back Obama’s Agenda, Not His Strategy
The Netroots Nation conference pulls in big Democratic names and spawns arguments in unlikely places.
Aug 17, 2009 / Feature / Ari Melber
What Is the Public Option? What Is the Public Option?
The Nation's Chris Hayes explains the proposed healthcare reforms as part of a panel discussion at the Netroots Nation conference.
Aug 17, 2009 / Sum of Change
Karzai, the Pashtuns, and the Taliban Karzai, the Pashtuns, and the Taliban
The prospects for Afghanistan's election on Thursday are murky, at best. The Taliban are threatening to disrupt the vote in areas south and east of Kabul, where they are strong,...
Aug 17, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss