“The Organizer is the Hero” “The Organizer is the Hero”
Reader CK writes in with some thoughts on MoveOn and organizing: I just read your article about MoveOn, and remembered that I'd removed myself from their mailing list, as I have ...
Jul 22, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Obama’s Global Victory Lap Has McCain Desperate Obama’s Global Victory Lap Has McCain Desperate
What was John McCain thinking? Did the Republican who would be president really think that by goading Democrat Barack Obama into visiting Afghanistan and Iraq -- countries the se...
Jul 22, 2008 / John Nichols
South Dakota Showdown South Dakota Showdown
I've blogged in the past about efforts in South Dakota to impose draconian restrictions on women's reproductive rights. Falling short of their ultimate goal of overriding Roe v. W...
Jul 21, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Regime Change Regime Change
According to the AP, Maliki's spokesperson essentially just reiterated (in English!) his support for Obama's timeline. What's truly amazing about this turn of events is that it m...
Jul 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Mistranslation? Mistranslation?
Lots of others have commented on the absurd walkback of Maliki's explicit endorsement of Barack Obama's vision for a withdrawal timeline. But to me the most significant part of th...
Jul 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes
MoveOn @ Ten MoveOn @ Ten
I'm back from Austin and will be posting some thoughts on Netroots Nation later today. In the meantime, I wanted to link to the cover story I wrote about MoveOn. I had the somewh...
Jul 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Going Green Going Green
In his Washington Post column last Friday, EJ Dionne writes that Al Gore is playing "his usual role of unpaid party visionary by arguing that we can ease the climate crisis, the e...
Jul 20, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Flash! Bin Laden Calls Iraq “Distraction” Flash! Bin Laden Calls Iraq “Distraction”
Osama bin Laden, the leader-in-hiding of Al Qaeda, announced today that his organization was shifting resources from Iraq to Afghanistan. "Iraq is not the central front in the Wa...
Jul 20, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama’s Wrong Turn in Afghanistan Obama’s Wrong Turn in Afghanistan
Running for president is a perilous endeavor. Candidates make mistakes. And Barack Obama is making a serious mistake this weekend. As he tours Afghanistan, the senator from Illi...
Jul 19, 2008 / John Nichols
Crawford Crawford
Later this afternoon, David Modigliani will be screening his new documentary Crawford. The film takes a look at the fate of the tiny town in Texas that George Bush decided to adop...
Jul 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes