Holder To Appoint Partial Torture Prosecutor Holder To Appoint Partial Torture Prosecutor
President Obama wanted this to be a quiet news week. "I have specific instructions from the President for the press corps -- he wants you to relax and have a good time," ...
Aug 24, 2009 / Ari Melber
America’s Super-Rich America’s Super-Rich
So the New York Times reports today that America's ultra-wealthy may finally be feeling the pinch. "After 30-Year Run, Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall," Davi...
Aug 21, 2009 / Eyal Press
Joe Scarborough Is Shocked, Yet Awed by Single-Payer Logic Joe Scarborough Is Shocked, Yet Awed by Single-Payer Logic
Something rather remarkable happened on Tuesday's Morning Joe. Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York pointed out that the health insurance industry has no clothes, and Joe Scarborough, a...
Aug 20, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Baucus & Grassley Hijack Obama’s Agenda Baucus & Grassley Hijack Obama’s Agenda
Barack Obama received 67 million votes in the last election. Senator Max Baucus of Montana received 349,000 votes when he ran for re-election last year. His Republican counterpart ...
Aug 18, 2009 / Ari Berman
Health-Care: Commodity or Right? (II) Health-Care: Commodity or Right? (II)
So it appears that Democrats, with control of the White House, the Senate and House, with a mandate that far exceeds anything George W. Bush could ever claim, with a popular leader...
Aug 17, 2009 / Eyal Press
Health-Care: Commodity or Right? Health-Care: Commodity or Right?
I've just come back from Europe, where citizens in most countries (on the left, right and center) would revolt if their leaders dared to privatize their health-care systems. That'...
Aug 16, 2009 / Eyal Press
BREAKING: Rush, Newt, and Sarah Supported Death Panels, Too! BREAKING: Rush, Newt, and Sarah Supported Death Panels, Too!
Attention, townhall protesters: Guess who else wants to pull the plug on granny and kill Sarah Palin's baby? In some knock-out reporting, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow showed Thursday nigh...
Aug 14, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Required Reading for Health Care Town Halls Required Reading for Health Care Town Halls
I am frustrated with the deepening madness at health care reform town hall meetings. In an effort to contextualize these events I'm offering a short syllabus that may help us unde...
Aug 14, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Breaking: Bill Clinton Heralds Blogs, Answers Heckler Breaking: Bill Clinton Heralds Blogs, Answers Heckler
Pittsburgh, PA 9:42pm 8/13/2009President Clinton just took the stage at Netroots Nation, opening with a joke about how many Republicans think President Obama was born in the Unite...
Aug 13, 2009 / Ari Melber
Lou Dobbs: Secret Single-Payer Socialist? Lou Dobbs: Secret Single-Payer Socialist?
Lou Dobbs is a strange man. One day he's railing against "Obamacare," stoking the birther and deather paranoia that an illegitimate president's health care plan will mand...
Aug 12, 2009 / Leslie Savan