Barack Obama

What Obama’s Presidency Needs: A Big Reset

What Obama’s Presidency Needs: A Big Reset What Obama’s Presidency Needs: A Big Reset

Some free advice for President Obama: take a deep breath, admit the Democratic Party has failed to grasp the enormity of economic upheaval in this country—and start using gov...

Sep 13, 2010 / William Greider

GAO: Iraq’s Government, Requesting Billions, Has Billions in Surplus

GAO: Iraq’s Government, Requesting Billions, Has Billions in Surplus GAO: Iraq’s Government, Requesting Billions, Has Billions in Surplus

A GAO report suggests that Iraq is not broke. Instead, Iraq’s rulers have been sitting on a vast pile of cash while begging for billions of dollars from the US and the i...

Sep 10, 2010 / Aram Roston

Noted. Noted.

Ari Berman on getting Rahm Emanuel out of the White House.

Sep 9, 2010 / Ari Berman

Briefing: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Class Warfare from the Top Down Briefing: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Class Warfare from the Top Down

When people like Elizabeth Warren are demonized and deficits are a point of obsession, it's not the rich who have to worry about class warfare, says Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Sep 7, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV

GOP Angry Obama Didn’t Praise Bush in Speech GOP Angry Obama Didn’t Praise Bush in Speech

Jeremy Scahill asks why former President George Bush deserves positive recognition for his contributions to the Iraq War.

Sep 2, 2010 / Press Room

Two Wars Don’t Make a Right Two Wars Don’t Make a Right

President Obama's attempt to put the best face on the ignominious US occupation of Iraq will not hide what he and the rest of the world well know.

Sep 1, 2010 / Robert Scheer

Slacker Friday Slacker Friday

 On the media, John McCain, "Hotel California," wives, ex-wives and shows at the Palladium.

Aug 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

They Go or Obama Goes

They Go or Obama Goes They Go or Obama Goes

Barack Obama and the Democrats he led to a stunning victory two years ago are going down hard in the face of an economic crisis that he did nothing to create but which he has fai...

Aug 25, 2010 / Robert Scheer

The False and ‘Seedy’ Claim That Obama Is Muslim

The False and ‘Seedy’ Claim That Obama Is Muslim The False and ‘Seedy’ Claim That Obama Is Muslim

Let’s get this straight once and for all: Regardless of what Billy Graham’s son claims or what millions of Americans believe, Obama is not now, nor has he ever been a M...

Aug 24, 2010 / Leslie Savan

Kabuki Democracy Kabuki Democracy

Why a progressive presidency is impossible, for now.

Aug 12, 2010 / Feature / Eric Alterman

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