Government

Gaming Healthcare Gaming Healthcare

Dropping the public option and Medicare expansion means breaking the promise of health reform: better care at lower cost.

Dec 16, 2009 / The Editors

Contractors Watching Contractors Contractors Watching Contractors

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan has hired a firm with ties to a powerful ex-Republican congressman to help prepare oversight reports on other corporations.

Dec 10, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill

A Practical Peace Advocate on Obama’s Nobel Speech A Practical Peace Advocate on Obama’s Nobel Speech

The Obama speech was about what I expected: on the one hand/on the other hand, I reject false choices, needle-threading "pragmatism." I have to say I find this rhetorical...

Dec 10, 2009 / Chris Hayes

Senate Prepares to Cast First Heathcare Votes Senate Prepares to Cast First Heathcare Votes

It takes sixty votes to pass an amendment and most of the proposed measures for the healthcare bill will never pass. Still, a great opportunity to grandstand over pet issues.

Dec 2, 2009 / Feature / Lindsay Beyerstein

Filibustering the Public Filibustering the Public

Filibustering healthcare reform? This is not what democracy looks like.

Nov 24, 2009 / The Editors

Light in the Middle of the Tunnel Light in the Middle of the Tunnel

The upcoming trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the best news for the print press since Monica Lewinsky.

Nov 24, 2009 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

More Deficit Idiocy: Politico Edition More Deficit Idiocy: Politico Edition

The discussion about deficits and debt in Washington is so colossally stupid and disingenuous that even engaging it makes me despair. But today's Politico so expertly packages toge...

Nov 13, 2009 / Chris Hayes

Healthcare History Healthcare History

The House's healthcare reform bill is a first draft of history; as with most first drafts, it has its share of flaws.

Nov 11, 2009 / The Editors

What Ails the Senate What Ails the Senate

The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body.

Nov 4, 2009 / Chris Hayes

Obama, One Year On Obama, One Year On

Building a new political order will take more than one election.

Nov 4, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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