FDR Went to Wisconsin to Battle ‘Economic Royalists,’ but Obama Avoids the State and the Fight FDR Went to Wisconsin to Battle ‘Economic Royalists,’ but Obama Avoids the State and the Fight
President Obama will circle around Wisconsin on his Midwest bus trip but never quite touch the labor rights battleground state.
Aug 15, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
How Did Michele Bachmann Win the Iowa Straw Poll? How Did Michele Bachmann Win the Iowa Straw Poll?
Originally seen as a long-shot candidate, Bachmann's ability to successfully fuse the small government, anti-tax rhetoric of the Tea Party with the ideology of the religious right ...
Aug 15, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room
How Did Michele Bachmann Win the Iowa Straw Poll? How Did Michele Bachmann Win the Iowa Straw Poll?
Originally seen as a long-shot candidate, Bachmann's ability to successfully fuse the small government, anti-tax rhetoric of the Tea Party with the ideology of the religious right ...
Aug 15, 2011 / Video / Democracy Now!
Boycott Campaign Contributions? That’s a Terrible Idea Boycott Campaign Contributions? That’s a Terrible Idea
The New York Times’s Joe Nocera might think otherwise, but a boycott of campaign contributions and fundraising is the last thing you want in a representative democracy.
Aug 15, 2011 / The Notion / Jamelle Bouie
Rick Perry’s Neocon Friends Rick Perry’s Neocon Friends
Isn’t one war-crazed governor from Texas enough for this century?
Aug 15, 2011 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
GOP Front-runners’ Hostility to Government Motivates Fiscal, Social Conservatives in Iowa GOP Front-runners’ Hostility to Government Motivates Fiscal, Social Conservatives in Iowa
At the Iowa straw poll, Michele Bachmann—and Ron Paul—offered up the tough talk on the deficit, and on religion, that voters wanted.
Aug 15, 2011 / Sarah Posner
A Handful of Rural Right-Wing Extremists Chase Tim Pawlenty Out of the Race A Handful of Rural Right-Wing Extremists Chase Tim Pawlenty Out of the Race
A small sample of far-right-wing Iowa Republicans favored Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann over Tim Pawlenty in the meaningless Iowa Straw Poll. So Pawlenty dropped out of the preside...
Aug 14, 2011 / The Notion / Ben Adler
Bernie Sanders Talks Up Primary Challenge to Obama as ‘a Good Idea for Our Democracy and for the Democratic Party’ Bernie Sanders Talks Up Primary Challenge to Obama as ‘a Good Idea for Our Democracy and for the Democratic Party’
The Vermont independent is not running for president, but he says it’s time “that people start asking the president some hard questions about why he said one thing duri...
Aug 14, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Can We Have Health Reform Without an Individual Mandate? Yes, It’s Called ‘Medicare for All’ Can We Have Health Reform Without an Individual Mandate? Yes, It’s Called ‘Medicare for All’
As another court strikes down the individual mandate, it's time for Medicare to be expanded to cover all Americans —affordably, efficiently, capably and constitutio...
Aug 13, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Nation Conversations: George Zornick and Robert Pollin: Why Do Ratings Agencies Matter? Nation Conversations: George Zornick and Robert Pollin: Why Do Ratings Agencies Matter?
Why did Standard & Poor's take the seemingly radical step of downgrading the US government's credit rating, and how do ratings agencies wield such power in the first place?
Aug 12, 2011 / Audio / The Nation