Tom DeLay Is Finally Rewarded for His Years of Public Service: With a Jail Sentence Tom DeLay Is Finally Rewarded for His Years of Public Service: With a Jail Sentence
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who took pay-to-play politics to extremes, is sentenced to jail time. It's a small measure of accountability for the large&nb...
Jan 11, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Children Becoming Collateral Damage Children Becoming Collateral Damage
Christina-Taylor Green was nine years old. She was born on September 11, 2001. She died on January 8, 2011 in Tucson, along with a federal judge and four others in a shooting targe...
Jan 10, 2011 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
In the Wake of the Tragedy in Arizona: An Open Letter to My Students In the Wake of the Tragedy in Arizona: An Open Letter to My Students
Saturday's shootings reminded me that a democratic republic requires much more sacrifice than I had allowed myself to remember when I have advised you to run for public office.
Jan 10, 2011 / The Notion / Melissa Harris-Perry
Slide Show: The Attack on Arizona’s Gabrielle Giffords Slide Show: The Attack on Arizona’s Gabrielle Giffords
This Saturday, a gunman, identified by the press as 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, walked up to the parking lot of a Tucson supermarket and shot US Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford…
Jan 10, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Arizona Faces ‘Lethal Combination’ of Guns and Hate Speech Arizona Faces ‘Lethal Combination’ of Guns and Hate Speech
Jeff Biggers appears on Democracy Now! to talk about the assassination attempt on Congresswoman Giffords in Arizona, what it was like to grow up in a "gun state,"&nb...
Jan 10, 2011 / Video / Democracy Now!
Killing the ‘Killing’ Words Killing the ‘Killing’ Words
After the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, will the Republicans rename their "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act"?
Jan 10, 2011 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
It’s Not a Game: Sarah Palin and the Madness of March It’s Not a Game: Sarah Palin and the Madness of March
Last March, Sarah Palin unleashed a sports-infused tirade that shows more than a lack of basketball acumen: it shows a comfort in the language of violence that should disquali...
Jan 10, 2011 / The Notion / Dave Zirin
The Inherent Self-Destruction of Government-vs.-the People Ideology The Inherent Self-Destruction of Government-vs.-the People Ideology
The violence in Arizona is about more than Sarah Palin's semantics. It's an indictment of decades' worth of right-wing enemy-in-our-midst politics and governance.
Jan 10, 2011 / The Notion / Kai Wright
After Arizona Shooting, Obama Should Fight Fringe Extremism Like Clinton Did After Arizona Shooting, Obama Should Fight Fringe Extremism Like Clinton Did
Without politicizing the tragic shootings in Arizona, Obama should be clear about the dangers this country faces if the climate of right-wing hate remains unchallenged.
Jan 10, 2011 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Palin Put a Gun Target on Giffords’s District; Now a Colleague Says: ‘Palin Needs to Look at Her Own Behavior’ Palin Put a Gun Target on Giffords’s District; Now a Colleague Says: ‘Palin Needs to Look at Her Own Behavior’
The tragedy in Arizona has sparked an overdue dialogue about how to maintain robust debate in a civil society.
Jan 9, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols