Novartis Wants to Profit off Pandemic Novartis Wants to Profit off Pandemic
While the Obama administration's getting serious about healthcare reform, it's time for a rather pointed reading comprehension test. Consider the following story and find,...
Jun 17, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Obama and the Black Daddy Dilemma Obama and the Black Daddy Dilemma
Father's Day is fast approaching and I have been thinking about President Obama's relationship to black fatherhood. His loving engagement with his daughters is the very embodiment...
Jun 17, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Realism, Obama & Iran Realism, Obama & Iran
The Internet is awash in dispatches, photos, poems and interviews detailing the extraordinary events that have taken place over the past few days in Iran. A growing number of the p...
Jun 16, 2009 / Eyal Press
Iran’s Twitter Revolution Iran’s Twitter Revolution
Forget CNN or any of the major American "news" networks. If you want to get the latest on the opposition protests in Iran, you should be reading blogs, watching YouTube o...
Jun 15, 2009 / Ari Berman
The “O” in Socialism The “O” in Socialism
Just recently, things were looking up for socialism. In April, a much-discussed Rasmussen poll reported that only 53 percent of Americans expressed a preference for capitalism. The...
Jun 12, 2009 / Betsy Reed
Sotomayor & Identity Politics Sotomayor & Identity Politics
Take the time, if you haven't already, to read the following post on Sonia Sotomayor and identity politics, by my good friend Ta-Nehisi Coates, a blogger at The Atlantic. In addit...
Jun 10, 2009 / Eyal Press
Mutually Assured Destruction in Virginia Primary Mutually Assured Destruction in Virginia Primary
In January 2004 in Iowa, an infamous murder-suicide took place. No, not a real one. This was of the political variety. In the final days of the Iowa caucus, Dick Gephardt launched ...
Jun 10, 2009 / Ari Berman
Too Big To Jail? Too Big To Jail?
Everyone wants the economy to bounce bank, and the President's not wrong to believe that the way to revive things is to boost confidence. But if mass confidence is what ...
Jun 10, 2009 / Mary Bottari
Brits Launch Web Campaign Protesting Election of Far-Right Party Brits Launch Web Campaign Protesting Election of Far-Right Party
The far-right British National Party won its first seats to the European Parliament Monday, revealing a troubling shift in British politics, and in an unusual bout of post-election...
Jun 8, 2009 / Ari Melber
Saluting Roger Federer Saluting Roger Federer
In case you were too busy watching the Sunday morning news shows, Roger Federer won the French Open yesterday, tying Pete Sampras' record of fourteen career grand slams and solidif...
Jun 8, 2009 / Eyal Press