McCain, Scarborough and What ‘Everyone Knows’ McCain, Scarborough and What ‘Everyone Knows’
Republicans lose it when challenged on their make-believe consensus.
Feb 4, 2013 / Blog / Leslie Savan
Good Riddance to Warmonger Hillary Clinton Good Riddance to Warmonger Hillary Clinton
As secretary of state, Clinton backed the Petraeus-CIA plan to go to war in Syria.
Feb 4, 2013 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
Voter Registration Has an Ugly History, and Some Want to Revive It Voter Registration Has an Ugly History, and Some Want to Revive It
Right-wing machinations around voting haven’t stopped just because the election’s over. Now up: rebuilding the walls around registration.
Feb 4, 2013 / Voting Rights Watch / Voting Rights Watch and Brentin Mock
A Few Good (and Fair) Tax Hikes A Few Good (and Fair) Tax Hikes
Before we’re forced to pick our flavor of austerity, we should close tax loopholes in the financial sector to raise much-needed revenue.
Feb 4, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Skeeters Bit by Image of President Who Opposes Violence—Not the Second Amendment Skeeters Bit by Image of President Who Opposes Violence—Not the Second Amendment
One picture might just speak a thousand words about Obama's balance stance on gun safety.
Feb 4, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
Ed Koch and the Cost of the Closet Ed Koch and the Cost of the Closet
There is a special place reserved for the late New York City mayor in gay hell.
Feb 2, 2013 / Blog / Richard Kim
What’s Next For the Voting Rights Movement? What’s Next For the Voting Rights Movement?
Voter suppression efforts in Virginia and Florida have galvinated activists to fight harder to protect--and expand--the vote in 2016.
Feb 1, 2013 / Brentin Mock
A Big Day for Obamacare A Big Day for Obamacare
The administration largely protected universal contraception coverage, but also made it harder for millions of familes to get health insurance.
Feb 1, 2013 / Blog / George Zornick
What We Will Lose When Tom Harkin Leaves the Senate What We Will Lose When Tom Harkin Leaves the Senate
An FDR Democrat who got big things done, the retiring senator has been a rare moral voice in a chamber of compromise and cynicism—especially on human rights issues.
Feb 1, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
It’s Good to Be Goldman It’s Good to Be Goldman
Those responsible for the crisis continue to be rewarded, as Timothy Geithner’s Treasury Department approves tens of millions of dollars in bonuses for Goldman Sachs executiv...
Feb 1, 2013 / Robert Scheer