Valentine’s Message: Home Is Where the Heart Is Valentine’s Message: Home Is Where the Heart Is
Tenant leaders around the country unite for Valentine's Day demonstrations and direct actions against cuts to Housing and Urban Development programs.
Feb 14, 2011 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Religious War Comes to CPAC Religious War Comes to CPAC
This year’s conservative confab was strained by discord, with gays pitted against the Christian right and Islamophobes battling conservative Muslims.
Feb 14, 2011 / Sarah Posner
A ‘Dictator’ Governor Sets Out to Cut Wages, Slash Benefits and Destroy Public Unions A ‘Dictator’ Governor Sets Out to Cut Wages, Slash Benefits and Destroy Public Unions
The most radical assault yet by the current crop of Republican governor on the rights of workers has inspired outrage in a historically progressive and pro-labor state, with the go...
Feb 13, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Palin’s ‘Mama Grizzly’ Claws Are Out After Right-Wing Rival Suggests She’s More Into Money Than Ideology Palin’s ‘Mama Grizzly’ Claws Are Out After Right-Wing Rival Suggests She’s More Into Money Than Ideology
She turns down prime invite from Conservative Political Action Conference. Why? A rival suggests she's tends to skip conservative events in favor of paying gigs. And... the claws c...
Feb 12, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Remembering Reagan’s Record on Civil Rights and the South African Freedom Struggle Remembering Reagan’s Record on Civil Rights and the South African Freedom Struggle
To Ronald Reagan, the apartheid regime in South Africa was a valuable cold war ally.
Feb 11, 2011 / Pedro Noguera and Robert Cohen
Is Kucinich Right That Obama Should Be Challenged From the Left in 2012? Is Kucinich Right That Obama Should Be Challenged From the Left in 2012?
The Ohio congressman says challenge would help the president by forcing him to rethink his stands on jobs, taxes, war—and to respect the Democratic base. Updated.
Feb 11, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
The Breakdown: In an Age of Austerity, Can’t the US Cut the Military Budget? The Breakdown: In an Age of Austerity, Can’t the US Cut the Military Budget?
The US maintains the most expansive and expensive military on the planet. On this week's edition of The Breakdown, D.C. Editor Chris Hayes and Institute for Policy Studies Research...
Feb 11, 2011 / Audio / Chris Hayes
Building a Perfect Machine of Perpetual War: The Mexico-to-Colombia Security Corridor Advances Building a Perfect Machine of Perpetual War: The Mexico-to-Colombia Security Corridor Advances
Washington is integrating Mexico, Central America and Colombia into a neoliberal-neocon corridor, creating a perfect circle of conflict, violence and repression.
Feb 11, 2011 / The Notion / Greg Grandin
Communications Breakdown: Obama Urges World to ‘Witness History Unfold’ in Egypt and… Mubarak Stays Communications Breakdown: Obama Urges World to ‘Witness History Unfold’ in Egypt and… Mubarak Stays
President Obama delivered a lovely speech essentially celebrating the transition of power in Egypt. Then, a few hours later, Mubarak announced he was staying.
Feb 10, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
A Bright Bipartisan Future on Civil Liberties? A Bright Bipartisan Future on Civil Liberties?
Lately, when the term “bipartisan compromise” is tossed around, it tends to mean that Democrats are giving in to the Republican position on issues, or that women's righ...
Feb 10, 2011 / The Notion / Laura Flanders