What Obama Should Be Saying About FISA What Obama Should Be Saying About FISA
Just imagine if Illinois Senator Barack Obama had kept his primary-season pledge to take the lead in opposing efforts by the Bush administration to rewrite the Foreign Intelligenc...
Jul 8, 2008 / John Nichols
“Obvious That We Would Have To Leave” “Obvious That We Would Have To Leave”
So said McCain: Question: "What would or should we do if, in the post-June 30th period, a so-called sovereign Iraqi government asks us to leave, even if we are unhappy about the ...
Jul 8, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Problem with Power The Problem with Power
In the latest issue of Time magazine, Samantha Power -- the author of A Problem from Hell and a former adviser to Barack Obama -- proposes a radical solution for the crisis in Zim...
Jul 8, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Two McCains The Two McCains
On fiscal policy, there is a war for McCain's soul. Mark Thoma gives a run-down of the "budget balancing, tax-cutting tap dance." Will we get fooled again?
Jul 8, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Contractor Hustle The Contractor Hustle
A few weeks ago I attended a briefing with Sen. Dorgan on contractor waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq. It's kind of weird. It's an open secret. The newspapers report on it. The Amer...
Jul 8, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Iraq Reconstruction Corruption, Part 7 Iraq Reconstruction Corruption, Part 7
In January, Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, a Green Beret, was electrocuted when he stepped into a shower at his barracks in Baghdad. He wasn't the first. In all, 13 Americans have died...
Jul 7, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
McFaul Defends Obama’s Russia Policy and Himself McFaul Defends Obama’s Russia Policy and Himself
The following is a letter written by Obama foriegn policy advisorProf. Michael McFaul in response to Robert Dreyfuss's blog entitled: The Rise and McFaul of Obama's Russia Policy...
Jul 7, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Maliki Stunner: He Wants US Pullout Timetable Maliki Stunner: He Wants US Pullout Timetable
The long-running showdown over the proposed US-Iraq treaty, aimed at legitimizing the American occupation of Iraq, is coming to a head, and it doesn't look good for the United Sta...
Jul 7, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Should (Still) Be Standing With Feingold Obama Should (Still) Be Standing With Feingold
Before the February 19 Wisconsin primary, which confirmed his front-runner status in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Illinois Senator Barack Obama went out of...
Jul 7, 2008 / John Nichols
Jesse Helms, John McCain and the Mark of the White Hands Jesse Helms, John McCain and the Mark of the White Hands
Jesse Helms was a segregationist, and a nasty one at that. Long after his contemporaries abandoned old "Jim Crow," Helms kept playing the race card when it served him politically...
Jul 5, 2008 / John Nichols