Nobody Loves Me: A Mitt Romney Music Video Nobody Loves Me: A Mitt Romney Music Video
If Mitt Romney wants to secure the Republican party's presidential nomination, he's going to have to tackle one basic problem: nobody likes him.
Jan 23, 2012 / Video / The Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel on the GOP Primary Race and the Fundamental Unfairness It Reveals Katrina vanden Heuvel on the GOP Primary Race and the Fundamental Unfairness It Reveals
The Republican primary race reveals the fundamental unfairness of our economic and political system.
Jan 23, 2012 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Top Ten Greatest Moments of the South Carolina Primaries Top Ten Greatest Moments of the South Carolina Primaries
A few bad men.
Jan 22, 2012 / Blog / Katie Halper
Six GOP Debate Questions Based on What We Know After South Carolina Six GOP Debate Questions Based on What We Know After South Carolina
The remains of the Republican presidential field will gather Monday night in Florida for a debate that could again reshape a rapidly evolving race.
Jan 22, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols
Cultural Populism Catapults Gingrich to South Carolina Victory Cultural Populism Catapults Gingrich to South Carolina Victory
Newt Gingrich won South Carolina’s Republican primary by appealing to religiosity, economic populism and racial resentment.
Finally, An Honest Voice Enters the GOP Race: AFSCME Finally, An Honest Voice Enters the GOP Race: AFSCME
More than 40 percent of Republicans disagree with GOP union-bashing. Labor's smart campaigning against Gingrich and Romney could influence Florida voting—in January, and...
Jan 21, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols
Katrina vanden Heuvel and The Young Turks: Mobilizing Against Corporations Katrina vanden Heuvel and The Young Turks: Mobilizing Against Corporations
How can Americans overturn corporate influence in government?
Jan 20, 2012 / Nation in the News / Press Room
John Nichols: Governor Walker Is a Desperate Candidate John Nichols: Governor Walker Is a Desperate Candidate
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says that if he fails to win reelection, the right’s anitlabor push may fall apart.
Jan 20, 2012 / Nation in the News / Press Room
What if ‘Citizens United’ Actually United the Citizens? What if ‘Citizens United’ Actually United the Citizens?
A week full of progressives victories—SOPA, Keystone and Wisconsin recall efforts—bring great reminders about the long game of organizing.
Jan 20, 2012 / Blog / Ilyse Hogue
What Marianne Gingrich and Al Green Teach Us About the Man Who Could Be President What Marianne Gingrich and Al Green Teach Us About the Man Who Could Be President
Last night’s 179th GOP debate of the season taught us so much, again, about the GOP candidates: socialism for the military, no government at all for anyone else, protect zygotes, execute humans, “I swear I never once provided a single person with healthcare”/ “Yes you did!”/ “Did not!”/ “Did too!,” etc. But the biggest revelations of last night did not occur at the debates. Thursday, I blogged about Marianne Gingrich, one of Newt’s several exes, and her tell-a-little interview (and how inconceivable sex with Newt Gingrich was to me). That was based on a mere preview of Marianne’s interview that ABC had released. But after the debate, ABC ran the entire at-least-a-couple-of-minutes-long interview. Here’s what stood out: • Gingrich left his first wife after she got cancer and left Marianne after she got MS. The take-away is that at least Newt is consistent and that Callista better take her multi-vitamins, though she does have her age on her side. • It was while he was cheating on his wife that Newt crucified Clinton for his infidelity and stated that there was “no administration with less moral authority than the Clinton-Gore administration.” • Marianne Gingrich knows about only “some of” the skeletons Newt keeps in his closet since, presumably, he has more skeletons than could fit in one closet or one person’s mind. And, of course, Newt has continued collecting skeletons since leaving his wife, so she’s in the dark on those. So, last night, we learned, or relearned, that Newt Gingrich is seriously one of the most disgusting, cheating, hurtful, wife-hopping people in the world. We also learned something about President Obama that puts him on the other end of the disgusting/adorable spectrum. And that is that he can sing! Which he did, at a fundraiser at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Perhaps Newt’s unfaithfulness (and the fact that Al Green was at the fundraiser) was what made Obama sing a few (too few) bars from Green’s classic, “Let’s Stay Together” and, specifically, the words “I’m so in love with you.” I pity the wives of Gingrich, but I envy Michelle Obama. See the video and look out for the president’s Kermit the Frog moves. It should convince the “there’s no difference between a Republican and a Democrat” crowd that, when it comes to Gingrich and Obama, there’s a huge difference, at least on a personal level. And, of course, as we all know, the personal is political. Download Video as MP4
Jan 20, 2012 / Blog / Katie Halper