I Heart Michelle Obama I Heart Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama's performance Monday night was spectacular. She was confident, warm, relaxed and eloquent, also smart, beautiful,radiant, gracious, stylish, humorous and tall. I w...
Aug 28, 2008 / Katha Pollitt
It Looks a Lot Like Unity It Looks a Lot Like Unity
DENVER – In 1908, when Democrats first gathered in Denver, African-American activists asked the party to make a place for them -- inside the convention, in the platform and in t...
Aug 28, 2008 / John Nichols
Leave No Soldier Behind Leave No Soldier Behind
Despite polls showing that the majority of Americans are sick and tired of war in Iraq, see the invasion as a mistake, and want the troops to return home, the Democrats have manag...
Aug 27, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Remember Katrina? Remember Katrina?
A quick hypothetical: if a Democratic president had allowed, say, all of Connecticut to flood and done nothing but strum a guitar and look out the window while it happened, do you...
Aug 27, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Dream Will Never Die Dream Will Never Die
Just a quick thought: It occurred to me that if Hillary Clinton had delivered word for word the same speech that Teddy Kennedy did in 1980, his famous, justly praised "The Dream W...
Aug 27, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Taking On Poverty and Inequality Taking On Poverty and Inequality
The theme at the Democratic Convention in Denver yesterday was "RenewingAmerica's Promise"--the Democrats' plan to grow the economy andrestore fairness so that it works for all o...
Aug 27, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
US Massacres Afghan Kids US Massacres Afghan Kids
So how, exactly, did the United States come to slaughter nearly a hundred Afghans, two-thirds of whom were children aged three months to sixteen years, while they slept? And what ...
Aug 27, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pantsuits Sisterhood of the Travelling Pantsuits
Hillary Clinton knocked it out of the park Tuesday night. It was a speech defined by grace, feistiness, sly wit, generosity toward her former rival and by a powerful nod to the ...
Aug 27, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Right Speech — For Clinton and Obama The Right Speech — For Clinton and Obama
DENVER -- Even the Obama delegates were reaching for Clinton signs. Such was the intensity of the moment, as delegates of every political stripe grabbed up the white signs -- "Pa...
Aug 27, 2008 / John Nichols
Confusion About Clinton Confusion About Clinton
I just did a live bit of commentary on Al Jazeera's English channel and even across the pond, all they wanted to talk about was the supposed and largely fictional intramural battl...
Aug 27, 2008 / Chris Hayes