Government

The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget

What effect will the reduction in troops in Iraq that Obama has promised have on defense spending?

Feb 5, 2010 / Chris Hayes

Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo

How politically credible are the leading figures in the Tea Party movement that is rallying this weekend at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville? Let them Tea Party proclaimers ...

Feb 5, 2010 / John Nichols

Bring on the Filibuster Bring on the Filibuster

Let the Republicans actually filibuster something, hour after excrutiating hour, in real time. The public won't like it.

Feb 4, 2010 / Thomas Geoghegan and The Editors

Video: How to Get Our Democracy Back Video: How to Get Our Democracy Back

Find out Professor Lawrence Lessig's solutions and ideas for how to fix Congress in this video companion to his cover story, "How to Get Democracy Back."

Feb 3, 2010 / The Nation Video

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

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