What Coakley’s Defeat Means for Healthcare Reform What Coakley’s Defeat Means for Healthcare Reform
Healthcare is in jeopardy, but it's not dead--especially if Democrats drag their feet on swearing in Brown.
Jan 20, 2010 / Feature / Lindsay Beyerstein
Iran’s Power Play in Iraq Iran’s Power Play in Iraq
For years, I've written about Iran's untoward influence in Iraq. Now, it appears as if Iran is making a power play, using its Iraqi allies, that could checkmate US influence in Ira...
Jan 20, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Coakley’s Loss: Pie in the President’s Face Coakley’s Loss: Pie in the President’s Face
Martha Coakley's loss in Massachusetts put on display the monumental miscalculations by which Obama has governed.
Jan 20, 2010 / William Greider
What Massachusetts Got Right What Massachusetts Got Right
Obama's opportunistic search for win-win solutions to our healthcare concerns and our larger economic problems is leading to a lose-lose outcome for the president and the country.
Jan 20, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer
Coakley Loses — And So Does Obama Coakley Loses — And So Does Obama
Whoever scheduled the special election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Edward Kennedy on January 19 did Barack Obama no favors.
Jan 19, 2010 / John Nichols
Borrower’s Remorse? Borrower’s Remorse?
Is bilingualism a sign of vitality, or the gradual takeover of one language by another?
Jan 19, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Young Punk Rockers Revive Folk Songs for a New Generation Young Punk Rockers Revive Folk Songs for a New Generation
As part of America's progressive folk tradition, The Tillers demonstrate that the left has long been essential to the country's cultural fabric.
Jan 19, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Geoffrey Dobbins
Six Scenarios for the Massachusetts Vote and After Six Scenarios for the Massachusetts Vote and After
Here are six scenarios for today's special election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Edward Kennedy.
Jan 19, 2010 / John Nichols
How Barack Obama is like Martin Luther King, Jr. How Barack Obama is like Martin Luther King, Jr.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. –Martin Luther King, Jr. Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomina...
Jan 18, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry
William Jennings Obama Seeks to Save Massachusetts Seat William Jennings Obama Seeks to Save Massachusetts Seat
A suddenly populist Barack Obama tore into the Republicans for siding with banks rather than consumers and taxpayers Sunday in Boston, hoping that his fiery rhetoric would revive t...
Jan 17, 2010 / John Nichols