Take the Obama Conspiracy-Theory Challenge! Take the Obama Conspiracy-Theory Challenge!
Now that President Obama's speech to school kids has proved not to be the Maoist indoctrination tool that the right absolutely knew it would be, it's time for the rest of us to sta...
Sep 10, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Challenger to “You Lie” Congressman Cashes In After Speech Challenger to “You Lie” Congressman Cashes In After Speech
The words "you lie" will live in infamy for Joe Wilson, the overheated Republican Congressman who shouted at President Obama during his address to a joint session of Cong...
Sep 10, 2009 / Ari Melber
We Needed Van Jones on the Inside We Needed Van Jones on the Inside
In March, I wrote here on The Notion in celebration of the appointment of Van Jones . I am both politically committed to and academically interested in issues of environmental just...
Sep 8, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
State of the Nation: Brooks vs Lind State of the Nation: Brooks vs Lind
According to David Brooks' latest column, Barack Obama's approval ratings are falling because his administration "has joined itself at the hip to the liberal leadership in Con...
Sep 2, 2009 / Eyal Press
Obama Organizing Advisers Rap Healthcare Push Obama Organizing Advisers Rap Healthcare Push
Two former advisers to Barack Obama's presidential campaign, famed labor organizer Marshall Ganz and urban policy expert Peter Dreier, are now publicly criticizing Obama's healthca...
Aug 31, 2009 / Ari Melber
Conservatives Show Kennedy the Love Conservatives Show Kennedy the Love
Now that he's gone, conservatives can't seem to say enough good things about Ted Kennedy. He was a pragmatist, a realist, a compromiser, someone who worked in the spirit of bipart...
Aug 28, 2009 / Eyal Press
Honoring Kennedy? Honoring Kennedy?
"In his honor and as a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilized debate on healthcare reform which I hope, when l...
Aug 27, 2009 / Eyal Press
Will Drones Make General Atomics the next Blackwater? Will Drones Make General Atomics the next Blackwater?
A US drone firing missiles into a village in northern Pakistan killed at least 19 people over the weekend. The targets were militants, said the US military. The victims i...
Aug 26, 2009 / Laura Flanders
What’s Wrong With Washington What’s Wrong With Washington
I've never met Heather Podesta. I've only spoken to her husband, Tony, once. But I found this Washington Post profile of her on Sunday incredibly distasteful. And I imagine I wasn'...
Aug 25, 2009 / Ari Berman
Boycott Israel? Boycott Israel?
Mention boycott in a discussion of Israel, and chances are you'll find yourself the butt of vicious attacks. Israeli professor Neve Gordon elicited just such denunciations when he ...
Aug 25, 2009 / Roane Carey