DC Voting Rights Debacle

The Democrats fail to stop a draconian gun amendment from being attached to an otherwise worthwhile bill backing representation for DC citizens.

Greg Kaufmann

Dr. Gupta, Give Me the News

Withdrawing his bid for Surgeon General, CNN's Sanjay Gupta is headed back to TV. But his medical reporting, like his nomination, is worrisome.

Chris Mooney

Rage Is Good

Demonstrations April 4 calling Wall Street to account could help progressive populism come alive in America. Obama and Congress need the pressure.

Tom Hayden

Ten Things You Can Do to Stay in Your Home

Advice and resources for preventing or fighting foreclosure.

The Nation

Tom Geoghegan’s Run

Tom Geoghegan may not have prevailed at the polls, but he won the ideas primary.

John Nichols

Green Power Struggle

An act of civil disobedience at a coal-fired generator in DC shows the movement to halt global warming is now in its second act.

Chris Hayes

Noted.

Max Fraser on Republic Windows & Doors, John Nichols on the FCC and on Obama's pick for commerce secretary, Loren Lynch on carbon caps

The Editors

Obama’s Iraq Exit

Obama's exit plan leaves unresolved the role of private security contractors and the residual force of as many as 50,000 troops that will remain in place.

The Editors

Comes the Change

Obama's first budget is an audacious plan to transform America. But in sad testament to how deeply we've fallen, it is not bold enough.

Robert L. Borosage

Reagan’s Socialist Legacy

The consequences of the deregulatory frenzies that allowed Wall Street to run wild have now come home to roost. So why is the GOP blaming Obama?

Robert Scheer

The Coming Economic Storm

If unemployment keeps rising and people with jobs stop spending, the atmospherics are right for a typhoon of misery on a scale of what Americans suffered in the early 1930s.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Lifestyles of the Rich and Generous?

Will the skewed values of the boom years give way to a spirit of generosity toward the poor?

Katha Pollitt

The Third Obama

Dope smokers take heart at Obama's stance on medical marijuana.

Alexander Cockburn

Bobby Jindal Bombs

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Give That Lady a Cigar!

Canton, Mich.

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