Obama Recognizes He Must Lead on Health Care Obama Recognizes He Must Lead on Health Care
Barack Obama's most ardent critics would have us believe that his bumbling of the healthcare reform push -- and, yes, he has bumbled it -- will doom his presidency. The critics w...
Jul 22, 2009 / John Nichols
Hugo Black: A Personal History Hugo Black: A Personal History
Should his former membership in the Ku Klux Klan disqualify this Supreme Court nominee?
Jul 22, 2009 / Feature / Max Lerner
Pelosi on the Public Option: “That’s Gonna Happen.” Pelosi on the Public Option: “That’s Gonna Happen.”
Just got back from an hour-long interview Speaker Pelosi gave to a few journalists on healthcare. I've interviewed the speaker a number of times, and it always strikes me how vast...
Jul 22, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Eyes Left! Eyes Left!
He has a plan for establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat, but how does the proletariat feel about it?
Jul 22, 2009 / Feature / William Hard
The Freedom of the Air The Freedom of the Air
The head of RCA says freedom of the airwaves must be maintained.
Jul 22, 2009 / Feature / David Sarnoff
Blackwater Seeks Gag Order Blackwater Seeks Gag Order
The private security company, facing charges in a US court for killing and injuring Iraqis, is attempting to silence its victims and their lawyers.
Jul 22, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Bank of America: Bad For Consumers? Bank of America: Bad For Consumers?
The SEIU's Stephen Lerner, Former BoA employee Chris Feener, and Max Fraad Wolff on the bank's unsavory practices.
Jul 22, 2009 / GRITtv
Invisible Iraq Invisible Iraq
You'd never know that the prime minister of a nation occupied by 130,000 US troops is in the United States, but he is. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is in Washington to meet Pres...
Jul 22, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
A Seat on the Bus? A Seat on the Bus?
Mass transit fares are going up and services are being cut. Meanwhile, federal stimulus money favors new projects over maintaining existing systems.
Key GOP Senator Lindsey Graham Backs Sotomayor Key GOP Senator Lindsey Graham Backs Sotomayor
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Wednesday became the first Republican senator from a Deep South state to say he would vote to confirm Supreme Court nomination of Judge So...
Jul 22, 2009 / John Nichols