Society

The Games Journalists Play The Games Journalists Play

Books like Game Change are more instructive for what they reveal about the community that prizes them than for the information they contain.

Jan 28, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman

Death and Cover-Up at Guantánamo Death and Cover-Up at Guantánamo

Staying the hand of justice on torture has gained the Obama administration nothing from Republicans. It's time to investigate deaths at Guantánamo.

Jan 28, 2010 / The Editors

Noted. Noted.

Robert Gates admits that Blackwater is in Pakistan; Air America signs off.

Jan 28, 2010 / The Editors

Democracy Inc. Democracy Inc.

The Citizens United campaign finance decision makes it possible for the nation's most powerful economic interests to manipulate not just individual electoral contests but political...

Jan 28, 2010 / The Editors

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

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

Goodbye Howard Zinn Goodbye Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and the author of the seminal A People's History of the U...

Jan 27, 2010 / Peter Rothberg

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

Slowly but Surely for Health Care Reform Slowly but Surely for Health Care Reform

Chris Hayes shares his optimism about passing health care reform and his concern over the Senate's lack of leadership.

Jan 27, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show

Unions Can’t Compete With Corporate Campaign Cash Unions Can’t Compete With Corporate Campaign Cash

Some union leaders think that the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Citizens United v. FEC -- which essentially takes the limits off campaign spending -- will give them the same ...

Jan 24, 2010 / John Nichols

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