Bad Model Ford Bad Model Ford
The news that Harold Ford Jr., a conservative Democrat from Tennessee, is considering a primary challenge to New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is as laughable as ludicrous. I'm s...
Jan 11, 2010 / Ari Berman
If It’s Sunday, It’s Meet The Facts If It’s Sunday, It’s Meet The Facts
Jay Rosen, the NYU journalism professor and new media innovator, has been agitating for some fact-driven reforms to the Sunday political talk shows. This Sunday, he got some tracti...
Jan 11, 2010 / Ari Melber
How the Healthcare Bill Will Hurt L.A. How the Healthcare Bill Will Hurt L.A.
Los Angeles County has more uninsured people than anyplace else in the country – three million, many of them immigrants, and many of those undocumented. If the Senate version of...
Jan 11, 2010 / Jon Wiener
GOPers Tell Tiger and Barack How to Pass GOPers Tell Tiger and Barack How to Pass
Did you notice what Barack Obama and Tiger Woods have in common lately? No, not that: It's that both were told by a Washington insider this week that he needed to say a magic word ...
Jan 8, 2010 / Leslie Savan
The Ensign Healthcare Loophole The Ensign Healthcare Loophole
Taken at face value, Senator John Ensign's amendment which was included in the final Senate healthcare bill sounds pretty decent: by meeting "wellness" standards people can recei...
Jan 8, 2010 / Greg Kaufmann
‘Green Shoots’ Can’t Live Without Water ‘Green Shoots’ Can’t Live Without Water
Looks like those green shoots of economic recovery remain rooted in hope more than reality. The December jobs report is out and, to the surprise of no one who's actually dealing wi...
Jan 8, 2010 / Kai Wright
Civilization and its Homophobes Civilization and its Homophobes
The Washington Post ran an impassioned editorial January 7, condemning the anti-homosexuality law being considered in Uganda. Originally calling for the death penalty, the bill ...
Jan 8, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Schools Over Prisons: Student Protests Push Cal. Governor to Act Schools Over Prisons: Student Protests Push Cal. Governor to Act
Student protests against tuition increases at the 10-campus University of California system pushed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to announce on Tuesday an initiative to guarantee that...
Jan 7, 2010 / Jon Wiener
Death Penalty Supporters Concede Defeat Death Penalty Supporters Concede Defeat
We saw a lot of bad death penalty-related news last year--the probable execution of innocent men in Texas, the attacks by a prosecutor on the Medill Innocence Project students at N...
Jan 7, 2010 / Laura Flanders
2010 Isn’t 1994…Yet 2010 Isn’t 1994…Yet
With the revelation last night/this morning that veteran Democratic Senators Christopher Dodd(CT) and Byron Dorgan (ND) are not seeking re-electionthis year, the mainstream press...
Jan 6, 2010 / Adam Howard