Goldman Wins, Workers Lose Goldman Wins, Workers Lose
The conventional wisdom holds that Barack Obama's first term will be judged by whether he can revive the economy, which currently boasts an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent, a figu...
Jul 17, 2009 / Eyal Press
Healthcare Debate Is Sicko Healthcare Debate Is Sicko
What are you doing tonight, Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson, and other Blue Dog Dems blocking real healthcare reform? If you can spare two hours, you ought to catch Michael Moo...
Jul 16, 2009 / Leslie Savan
England’s Green and Pleasant Land England’s Green and Pleasant Land
Britain's Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband (the former Nation intern who said that we need a mass movement to push for action on the environment), has just publishe...
Jul 16, 2009 / Maria Margaronis
Of Breadlines & Banks Of Breadlines & Banks
President Obama was elected with a large enough mandate for fundamental change that he could forge a fresh social compact, lock in place a new set of mutual obligations and...
Jul 14, 2009 / Laura Flanders
SCLC and Marriage Equality SCLC and Marriage Equality
At Sotomayor's confirmation hearings senators are debating the relative merit of empathy as a professional attribute of a Supreme Court justice. Republicans spent Monday morning ...
Jul 13, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Media Moonwalks Through Political Change Media Moonwalks Through Political Change
In the summer of wall-to-wall Michael-Jackson-is-still-dead coverage, the job of White House correspondent for a major network is easy as 1-2-3: mention the place where the preside...
Jul 13, 2009 / Leslie Savan
The Dog That Didn’t Bark The Dog That Didn’t Bark
Though the punters (that's you, dear reader) aren't usually let in on the secret, it is a truth universally acknowledged among journalists that any story belonging exclusiv...
Jul 13, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan
Sarah Palin’s Elite Apologists Sarah Palin’s Elite Apologists
I like Ross Douthat, as I've said here before, but earlier this week he wrote a justly panned column in which he claimed, absurdly, that Sarah Palin had been done in by media elite...
Jul 10, 2009 / Eyal Press
Et Tu, Brüno? Et Tu, Brüno?
Have you ever been at a polite dinner party and heard, in an exquisitely timed moment of silence, a loud, rasping fart erupt from one of the guests? The ensuing moment is ripe--wit...
Jul 10, 2009 / Richard Kim
Racism at the Pool Racism at the Pool
For my daughter the moment came in kindergarten. Even though she was the only African American girl in her classroom, she made friends easily, adored her teacher, and was growing i...
Jul 9, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry