The Breakdown: Is the Federal Deficit Actually Bad for Our Economy? The Breakdown: Is the Federal Deficit Actually Bad for Our Economy?
Would getting rid of the federal deficit be the silver bullet for our ailing economy? Robert Pollin explains why the standard arguments against deficit spending don't tell the whol...
Feb 18, 2011 / Audio / Chris Hayes
‘First Amendment Remedies’: How Wisconsin Workers Grabbed the Constitution Back From the Right-Wing Royalists ‘First Amendment Remedies’: How Wisconsin Workers Grabbed the Constitution Back From the Right-Wing Royalists
Wisconsin teachers, state, county and municipal employees, small business owners and students have employed the right to peaceably assembly and to petition for the redress of griev...
Feb 18, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Wisconsin’s Walker Is Trying to Silence His Political Foes Wisconsin’s Walker Is Trying to Silence His Political Foes
On Democracy Now!, Nichols says that rolling back Wisconsin's collective bargaining protections has little to do with economics and everything to do with politics.
Feb 18, 2011 / Video / Democracy Now!
Noted. Noted.
John Nichols on Wisconsin’s war on workers, Molly O’Toole on the launch of US Uncut
Feb 17, 2011 / Editorial / Various Contributors
Ronald Reagan Superstar Ronald Reagan Superstar
Reagan proved that deficits don't matter—and truth doesn't either.
Feb 17, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Selling History Short in Mississippi Selling History Short in Mississippi
Why is Haley Barbour so eager to turn Mississippi into a civil rights tourist attraction?
Feb 17, 2011 / Beneath the Radar / Gary Younge
Katrina vanden Heuvel: To Create Jobs, We Need Spending Katrina vanden Heuvel: To Create Jobs, We Need Spending
When there are 25 million people out of work, underemployed, seeking work, Katrina vanden Heuvel says, nobody should be talking about cutting vital services to the most vulnera...
Feb 17, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room
ON WISCONSIN: Live Reports From Ground Zero for Labor Rights ON WISCONSIN: Live Reports From Ground Zero for Labor Rights
LIVE reports from Wisconsin, where the governor is seeking to end collective bargaining, and tens of thousands of union members and their allies are rallying in opposition.
Feb 17, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
If Only Washington Had a Brain If Only Washington Had a Brain
There’s a perfectly obvious path toward that Republican goal of $100 billion in cuts: change our thinking about making war.
Feb 17, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt
Wisconsin Crowds Swell to 30,000; Key GOP Legislators Waver Wisconsin Crowds Swell to 30,000; Key GOP Legislators Waver
Governor Scott Walker wants to strip public employee unions of collective bargaining rights on Thursday. Teachers, students, state employees, firefighters and small business o...
Feb 17, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols