Government

Extracting Recovery, Too? Extracting Recovery, Too?

Yesterday it was security, today's it's recovery: another nifty, ubiquitous word that means a whole lot of different things to different people.

Jan 28, 2010 / Laura Flanders

SOTU as National Rorschach Test SOTU as National Rorschach Test

A contemporary State of the Union address is less an assessment of our national circumstances than it is a collective Rorschach test: an inkblot given meaning by the viewer more th...

Jan 28, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry

Two Cheers for Obama on Foreign Affairs Two Cheers for Obama on Foreign Affairs

It was a pleasure to listen to a State of the Union address, especially after eight years of his predecessor's alarmist warnings and warlike thundering, in which war, terrorism, an...

Jan 28, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss

“I Never Suggested the Change Would Be Easy” “I Never Suggested the Change Would Be Easy”

Say what you will about Barack Obama. But don't accuse the president of veering from the course he charted at a point when his term was new, his popularity ratings were high and Am...

Jan 28, 2010 / John Nichols

Health Care Moving in the Right Direction Health Care Moving in the Right Direction

Those of us paid to observe Congress have spent the last two weeks watching, with mouth agape, as congressional Democrats slowly raised a loaded gun to their collective mouths and ...

Jan 27, 2010 / Chris Hayes

Obama’s SOTU Test: Will He Be a Manager or a Leader? Obama’s SOTU Test: Will He Be a Manager or a Leader?

A new president gets a full year to prepare his initial State of the Union address. That is a blessing and a curse.

Jan 27, 2010 / John Nichols

Freeze, Like a Deer in Headlights Freeze, Like a Deer in Headlights

There's lots of progressive backlash in the blogosphere to the announcement that the president is going to call for a multi-year freeze on "non-security discretionary spending...

Jan 26, 2010 / Chris Hayes

Blocking Bernanke is Smart Economics, Smart Politics for Dems Blocking Bernanke is Smart Economics, Smart Politics for Dems

If the Democratic Party wants to lose – or, to be more precise, wants to lose badly in 2010 and 2012, it need only maintain its current loyalty to the most powerful interests...

Jan 25, 2010 / John Nichols

Teddy Roosevelt Was Right: Ban ALL Corporate Contributions Teddy Roosevelt Was Right: Ban ALL Corporate Contributions

What to do about the decision by U.S. Supreme Court to -- in the words of Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold -- "(ignore) important principles of judicial restraint and respect f...

Jan 21, 2010 / John Nichols

Massachusetts Meltdown Massachusetts Meltdown

What the wake-up call is really telling us.

Jan 21, 2010 / The Editors

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