California Supreme Court Upholds Prop 8 California Supreme Court Upholds Prop 8
As expected the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8 by a vote of 6-1. It also ruled that the 18,000 same-sex couples who got married last year are still married. It's a l...
May 26, 2009 / Richard Kim
Cheney vs. Obama: Banking on Fear Cheney vs. Obama: Banking on Fear
As rational, soaring, and adult-ready as Barack Obama's speech before the shrine of the Constitution in the National Archives was--and, in contrast, as full of retreaded lies as Di...
May 22, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Killing the Public Option Killing the Public Option
The nation's for profit health insurers are out to scuttle anything within the Obama healthcare plan that might be in any way public. One week after the insurance lobby ...
May 21, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Israel’s Growing Internal Divide Israel’s Growing Internal Divide
"How long can a relatively large minority be assumed by the majority to be an enemy without in the end actually turning into one? How long can the state exist as a stable pol...
May 20, 2009 / Eyal Press
Pelosi or Cheney? Who’s the Torturer in Chief? Pelosi or Cheney? Who’s the Torturer in Chief?
Beltway journalists seem finally to have a found a torture story they like. Mind you, not the one about the Bush/Cheney White House possibly okaying drowning to extract &...
May 19, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Cultivating Peace in Palestine Cultivating Peace in Palestine
In the days leading up to Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington, Yisrael Beiteinu, the far-right party led by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, announced that it would seek a ...
May 19, 2009 / Roane Carey
Mother of Parliaments in Mother of All Messes Mother of Parliaments in Mother of All Messes
London It began with what looked like a minor leak, the kind you'd call a plumber for but hope you could contain: reports that Britain's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, had charged ...
May 19, 2009 / Maria Margaronis
Hungarian Blues Hungarian Blues
I spent much of last year in Hungary, leaving just before the IMF cobbled together a rescue package to prevent the nation's economy from imploding. A full-scale implosion has been...
May 18, 2009 / Eyal Press
Harvard Strike 40th Anniversary Harvard Strike 40th Anniversary
This spring is the 40th anniversary of the Harvard strike, one of the iconic moments of 1960s student protest, but -- strangely -- the only notice thus far has been in the "Op...
May 18, 2009 / Jon Wiener
The Madisonian Impulse Behind Antitrust Law The Madisonian Impulse Behind Antitrust Law
In the last two weeks, there have been two big stories about antitrust law in the New York Times, and one in the Wall Street Journal. As the Wall Street Journal's blog just recomme...
May 18, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout