Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal
It's Super Bowl season, another year, another scandal. This year's outburst over CBS's $3 million Focus on the Family ad has revived the mythology around another Super Bowl ad, t...
Feb 5, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Last Flight to Abu Dhabi Last Flight to Abu Dhabi
Billy Bragg, a living legend of the British punk and folk music scenes, just released a new song as catchy and relevant as anything he's produced in many years.
Feb 5, 2010 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget
What effect will the reduction in troops in Iraq that Obama has promised have on defense spending?
Feb 5, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
Question Time in Our Democracy Question Time in Our Democracy
"We live in a world that increasingly demands more dialogue than monologue." Those are words from the founding manifesto issued earlier this week by a diverse group of bl...
Feb 5, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo
How politically credible are the leading figures in the Tea Party movement that is rallying this weekend at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville? Let them Tea Party proclaimers ...
Feb 5, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols
Noted. Noted.
Morton Mintz on what Rehnquist would have thought of Citizens United; John Nichols on net neutrality.
Feb 4, 2010 / Editorial / The Editors
Zinn’s Critical History Zinn’s Critical History
Howard Zinn's writings remain essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the upheavals of the '60s
Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
Remembering the pragmatic radical.
Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Bring on the Filibuster Bring on the Filibuster
Let the Republicans actually filibuster something, hour after excrutiating hour, in real time. The public won't like it.
Feb 4, 2010 / Editorial / Thomas Geoghegan and The Editors