Government

How to Get Our Democracy Back How to Get Our Democracy Back

There will be no change until we change Congress.

Feb 3, 2010 / Feature / Lawrence Lessig

Noting Setbacks, Plouffe Returns in New Obama Video Noting Setbacks, Plouffe Returns in New Obama Video

David Plouffe, the Obama campaign manager who was recently tapped for an "expanded role" advising the White House, just cut a video briefing Obama supporters on plans for...

Feb 2, 2010 / Ari Melber

Free Speech for People Free Speech for People

My colleague and friend John Nichols' new post appropriately lauds Rep. Donna Edwards' proposed legislation to redress the damage done by the Supreme Court in its decision in the ...

Feb 2, 2010 / Peter Rothberg

Groundhog’s Day Budgeting: Again, Obama Underfunds Job Growth Groundhog’s Day Budgeting: Again, Obama Underfunds Job Growth

The 2009 stimulus bill that was supposed to spur job creation at a sufficient rate to prevent double-digit unemployment might have done so if it had been approved at the level and ...

Feb 1, 2010 / John Nichols

Calling Out “Not True” Alito Calling Out “Not True” Alito

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he said he would not bring a political agenda to the high court, became the unexpected "sta...

Jan 30, 2010 / John Nichols

The Obama I Remember The Obama I Remember

Watching Barack Obama become President of the United States made me proud and hopeful, but I also found the experience somewhat amusing. I think many of us who were his Hyde Park n...

Jan 30, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry

Prankly, My Dear, They Don’t Give a Damn Prankly, My Dear, They Don’t Give a Damn

You know how you can tell the Age of Reagan has ended? Because at his State of the Union address, Barack Obama didn't do any of those ordinary-folks-who-make-a-difference shout-out...

Jan 29, 2010 / Leslie Savan

The Breakdown: Spending Freeze Edition The Breakdown: Spending Freeze Edition

The Obama Administration has announced a plan to reduce the budget deficit through a three-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending. What are possible long-term effects?

Jan 29, 2010 / Chris Hayes

Obama’s “Eager to See” Better Approach on Health Reform? O.K. Obama’s “Eager to See” Better Approach on Health Reform? O.K.

President Obama renewed his call for health-care reform in his first State of the Union address but, as has been the case from the start of the current debate over how to get more ...

Jan 28, 2010 / John Nichols

Understanding Massachusetts Understanding Massachusetts

The Bay State election results are a chapter in a story that predates Obama's presidency.

Jan 28, 2010 / Feature / Jonathan Schell

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