President Obama: ‘The Time for Action Is Now’ President Obama: ‘The Time for Action Is Now’
President Obama invokes history and offers a robust vision of progressive governance (if not the public option) in his major address to Congress on healthcare.
Sep 10, 2009 / C-SPAN
Obama’s Health Speech and the Big Sleazy Obama’s Health Speech and the Big Sleazy
The Nation's Chris Hayes looks back on the impact of right-wing 'death panel' attacks of August and sounds an optimistic note about the future.
Sep 10, 2009 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Obama Shows His Progressive Spine Obama Shows His Progressive Spine
The president's healthcare speech was not a full-fledged antidote to decades of Reaganism. But it was an eloquent call for a new progressive role for government. We must build on i...
Sep 10, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Method to Their Madness A Method to Their Madness
It takes considerable skill to convince people that something that is clearly good for them--like universal healthcare--is not.
Sep 9, 2009 / Column / Gary Younge
Who Will Obama’s Health Speech Target? Who Will Obama’s Health Speech Target?
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, talks about Obama, healthcare reform and the coming anniversary of the economic collapse.
Sep 9, 2009 / MSNBC
Robert Reich Explains the Public Option Robert Reich Explains the Public Option
Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, explains how the public healthcare option would work.
Sep 8, 2009 / YouTube
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
The window is open for President Obama and a Democratic Congress to finally reform our healthcare system. Success means a bill with a strong public option, not a watered-down "bipa...
Sep 2, 2009 / The Editors
Reverse Nazism and the War on Universal Healthcare Reverse Nazism and the War on Universal Healthcare
What's at stake could very well be nothing less than America's own Weimar moment.
Aug 26, 2009 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Kennedy’s Passion for Healthcare Reform Kennedy’s Passion for Healthcare Reform
In this moving April 2008 speech, Sen. Ted Kennedy explains why providing healthcare coverage for all Americans is the 'cause of his life.'
Aug 26, 2009 / YouTube
GOP’s Healthcare Message Malfunction GOP’s Healthcare Message Malfunction
The Nation's Chris Hayes says Republicans want to kill healthcare reform, not put forth any credible alternatives, so their arguments are a 'logical mess.'
Aug 26, 2009 / Countdown