GOP Gets Desperate to Block Health Reform GOP Gets Desperate to Block Health Reform
The Nation's DC editor Chris Hayes weighs in on the petty tone currently defining the Senate's healthcare battle.
Dec 22, 2009 / Countdown
TV on the Internet TV on the Internet
A quick post to say that I'll be on the year (and decade!) in review edition of GRIT TV with Laura Flanders on Wednesday at 12:30. The panel so far is me, Mark Green and Esther Arm...
Dec 22, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Who You Callin’ Moderate? Who You Callin’ Moderate?
The Senate held a historic vote on health care reform last night at 1 AM. Splitting exactly along party lines--that is, if you call Joe Lieberman a Democrat--the health care bill m...
Dec 22, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Pakistan’s Trump Card Pakistan’s Trump Card
The Pakistani army may or may not decide to take power once again in Islamabad. Off and on, for decades, Pakistan has been ruled by its military, usually with American support or ...
Dec 22, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Nurses Say Senate Bill Entrenches Chokehold of Insurance Giants Nurses Say Senate Bill Entrenches Chokehold of Insurance Giants
Want to know what's wrong -- really wrong -- with the health-care "reform" bill being pushed through the Senate by Majority Leader Harry Reid? Ask a nurse. "It is tragic to see ...
Dec 22, 2009 / John Nichols
Swapping Politics for Science on Drug Policy Swapping Politics for Science on Drug Policy
President Obama has lifted the twenty-year ban on federal funding of needle exchanges. But if he wants to promote public health--over politics--on substance abuse, there are plenty...
Dec 21, 2009 / Feature / Beth Schwartzapfel
Slide Show: 2009 in The Nation Slide Show: 2009 in The Nation
Dec 21, 2009 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Earth: Too Big to Fail? Earth: Too Big to Fail?
It's dumb machines, not the smart ones of Terminator 2, that could do us in.
Dec 21, 2009 / Feature / Rebecca Solnit
In Copenhagen, a New World Order on Display In Copenhagen, a New World Order on Display
Fundamental new global realities have been obscured by the frenzy to declare winners and losers.
Dec 21, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow
Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone’s fault.
Dec 21, 2009 / Naomi Klein