When Puppets Attack When Puppets Attack
Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's foreign minister, used his conversation with Barack Obama this week to give the Democratic candidate a geography lesson. "Iraq is not an island," lectured t...
Jun 18, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Subhed Of the Day Subhed Of the Day
Barack Obama is a magnet for nuts. I suppose this is true of any prominent political figure, and boy was it true of Bill and Hillary Clinton. But we've already seen a whole bunch ...
Jun 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Mid-Day Links Mid-Day Links
1) John McCain, the kind of maverick who's so maverick-y he doesn't understand his own climate change policy. 2) Speaking of Climate Change, Ron Brownstein does a post-mortem on ...
Jun 17, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Israel’s Hat Trick Israel’s Hat Trick
John McCain says he won't talk to Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas. Barack Obama might talk to Syria, but he's having nothing to do with Hezbollah and Hamas. I guess they know somethin...
Jun 17, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Beyond Broadcast Beyond Broadcast
If you happen to be in DC today, check out Beyond Broadcast, a conference about the future of public media up at American University.
Jun 17, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Progressive Book Lovers of the World, Unite! Progressive Book Lovers of the World, Unite!
Interested in joining the Progressive Book Club? Find out more here. "Books have always played a pivotal role in our nation's history,changing America in remarkable ways. Imag...
Jun 16, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
One Simple Question One Simple Question
It started with one simple question posed by Senator Bernie Sandersto his constituents in an invitation to a town meeting: what does the decline of the middle class mean to you pe...
Jun 14, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tim Russert and the End of No-Talking-Points Journalism Tim Russert and the End of No-Talking-Points Journalism
The passing of Tim Russert leaves us in the midst of an essential election season without the man who had been the steadiest and most serious inquisitor of the powerful during the...
Jun 14, 2008 / John Nichols
Name Our Epoch Name Our Epoch
As John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins write in the current issue of The Nation -- a special look at rising inequality, "Over the past three decades, market-worshiping politicians and...
Jun 13, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Bombing Iran? It’s Not So Bad, Really Bombing Iran? It’s Not So Bad, Really
Patrick Clawson and Michael Eisenstadt, two Iran experts at the pro-Israeli thinktank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, have published a primer for bombing Iran that...
Jun 13, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss