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The Confidence Gap Between Democrats And Republicans

Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Republicans have a well-oiled propaganda machine to facilitate the fantasy of strength and popularity. The message is always the same -- whether the GOP wins or loses, it always wins.

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Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan

Robert Naiman | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Stanley McChrystal, The Nation, Boston Globe, Taliban, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, World News

Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome? There is something very Captain R...

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The "Goldilocks Principle" and Afghan War Options

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, George Ball, George Kahin, Rand Corporation, Afghanistan Occupation, President Barack Obama, Juan Cole, Lindsey Graham, The Nation, Peter Baker, Afghanistan War, William Polk, American War in Afghanistan, Nato, American Military Forces, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Goldilocks Principle, William Westmoreland, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, New York Times, General Stanley McChrystal, Joe Lieberman, Afghanistan, Lyndon Johnson, Undersecretary of State George Ball, Helene Cooper, Robert Dryfuss, Vietnamization, Politics News

General McChrystal's recommendation for more troops and material has a distinctly Westmorelandian flavor to it. If approved, it could create an additional $40 to$80 billion per annum in war costs.

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New Twitter Lists, Social Influence & Torture

Ari Melber | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Twitter, Social Media, The Nation, Online Organizing, Social Networking, Bob Fertik, Twitter Lists, Media News

Previously, Twitter essentially held the market on recommending users, through its official list of suggested users. But it just launched a tool enabling users to create their own lists on the site.

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"Going Rouge": Nation Editors Mock Palin With Book Of Their Own

Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Sarah Palin Book, Richard Kim, The Nation, Or Books, Parody, The Nation Editors, Sarah Palin, Going Rouge: Sarah Palin an American Nightmare, Book Mocking Palin, Betsy Reed, Going Rogue, Media News

An alternative, liberal judgment of Sarah Palin's legacy will appear in book stores on November 17, the same day Palin's own autobiography, "Going Rog...

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Fox News Is the Story

Eric E. Burns | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: The O'Reilly Factor, Josh Gerstein, White House, Happening Now, Bill Shine, The Nation, Martha MacCallum, Politico, FOX Report, America’s News HQ, Dick Morris, Ruth Marcus, Cavuto, Jake Tapper, Tea Parties, Roger Ailes, Fox News Sunday, Fox Business Network, Trace Gallagher, Julie Banderas, Jon Scott, Chris Wallace, Mike Huckabee, Rupert Murdoch, The Fox Nation, Washington Post, Bernard Goldberg, Fox News Channel, Greg Gutfield, Brian Kilmeade, Bernie Goldberg, Bill Clinton, News Corp, Red Eye, Tom Rosenstiel, Greta Van Susteren, Studio B, Shepard Smith, Bill Hemmer, Mike Allen, Center for Media and Public Affairs, FoxNation.Com, Steve Doocy, The Live Desk, Barack Obama, Harris Faulkner, Special Report, Fox News Watch, Gretchen Carlson, Sean Hannity, America’s Newsroom, Fox & Friends, Fox News, Neil Cavuto, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Glenn Beck, Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, ABC News, John Nichols, Robert Gibbs, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war against the Obama administration and its progressive agenda.

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The Curious Case of Meghan McCain

Fernanda Diaz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meghan McCain, The Nation, John McCain, The Daily Beast, Twittering, Twitter, Internet, Bloggers, Politics News

When her father's campaign ended, her own kept going in an ambiguous and overexposed direction.

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The UR1HTR Virus ("Hate Flu"): Stop the Epidemic!

Lea Lane | Posted 11.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Tea Bag Parties, March 12 Rally, Hate, H1N1 Virus, Rachel Maddow, Swine Flu, Npr, Arianna Huffington, Michael Moore, The Nation, Keith Olbermann, Bigotry, Joan Walsh, Comedy News

The hate flu seems to thrive in the southern United States, with pockets found throughout the country, especially in rural areas.

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The Nation's Special Issue "Food for All"

Ben Wyskida | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Alice Waters, The Nation, Organic Food, Food Politics, Walter Mosley, Anna Lappe, Local Food, Michael Pollan, Green News

There is a much broader movement out there towards food democracy: the effort to ensure healthy food for everyone.

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The Daily Pulse: Deep Six the Gang of Six

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Lindsay Beyerstein, The Nation, Public Option, Lobbyists, Washington Monthly, Filibuster, Gang of Six, Salon, Mohter Jones, Insurance, The Media Consortium, Health, Daily Pulse, Talking Points Memo, Tmc, Healthcare, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

The White House has given up on Republican gangster Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY). They finally got the hint when Enzi told a radio listeners that Democrats wanted to kill the elderly.

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Want to Teach Democracy? Improve School Lunches

Alice Waters | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Community Gardens, Alice Waters, The Nation, Morgan Spurlock, Urban Farming, School Lunches, Food Politics, Green News

What's missing from the national conversation about school lunch reform is the opportunity to use food to teach values that are central to democracy.

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Weekly Audit: Four More Years of Bailout Ben

The Media Consortium | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Deficit, The Washington Monthly, The Nation, Weekly Audit, The Media Consortium, Federal Reserve, Economy, Zach Carter, Banks, The Real News, The Progressive, Salon, Tmc, The Uptake, In These Times, Ben Bernanke, Business News

Why is the Bernanke reappointment a mistake? Put simply, Bernanke is completely culpable for allowing an economic crisis to foment.

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Healthcare, History and Kennedy

Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Nation, Ted Kennedy Dead, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

We should be inspired to honor and fight for the cause of Senator Kennedy's life. The Senate's fighting liberal would not place the fate of affordable health insurance back in the hands of the private sector.

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Weekly Pulse: Healthcare Reform After Kennedy

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Mother Jones, Reform, Tmc, The Nation, YES! Magazine, The Media Consortium, Ted Kennedy, Alternet, Weekly Pulse, Town Hall, Health, Single-Payer, Lindsay Beyerstein, Medicare, Salon, Healthcare, Tpmdc, Politics News

If the Democrats want healthcare reform, they are going to have to go it alone. Let's hope they pass a bill that would make Sen. Kennedy proud.

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Weekly Audit: EFCA, Tax Cheats and the Racial Wealth Gap

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Nation, Grittv, The American Prospect, Employee Free Choice Act, Housing, Truthdig, Racial Equality, Economy, Scandal, Salon, Ubs, Weekly Audit, Net Work, Mortgage, Unemployment, The Media Consortium, Labor Laws, Bank, Zach Carter, Tmc, Politics News

The U.S. economy may finally be bottoming out. But while conditions may improve in a dry, statistical sense, the foundation for a productive economy has been decimated over the past three decades.

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Weekly Pulse: Public Option on Life Support

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lindsay Beyerstein, The Nation, Senate Finance Committee, Public Option, Weekly Pulse, Public Plan, Filibuster, Reform, Salon, Blue Dogs, Senate, Town Hall, The Media Consortium, Mother Jones, Health, Tmc, Alternet, Healthcare, Politics News

The White House is sorely mistaken if it thinks that the public option belongs in the "nice but not necessary" category. Without it, there's little hope of containing costs or reigning in the power of insurance companies.

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Whether Gates or Health Care, Race Matters

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Gates, President Obama, Obama, The Nation, Race, Institutionalized Racism, Obama Town Hall Meetings, Officer Crowley, Town Hall, White Privilege, Racism, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry Louis Gates Arrested, African-Americans, Privilege, Health Care, African Americans, Whites, Leonard Zeskind, Pat Buchanan, Barack Obama, Driving While Black, White Nationalism, Lynching, People of Color, Sarah Palin, Sonia Sotomayor, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Erik Ward, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Inequality, Town Hall Meetings, Eric Alterman, Healthcare, Class, Politics News

Discussions of race are not merely a distraction from more important matters; they are essential to understanding political mobilization around many of the significant policy issues facing us today.

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Weekly Pulse: The Rocky Road to Reform

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lindsay Beyerstein, The Nation, RH Reality Check, Weekly Pulse, Dana Goldstein, Josh Holland, Mike Lillis, Salon, Ryan Grim, Washington Independent, John Nichols, The Media Consortium, MIchael Lind, The Prospect, Tmc, Alternet, Laura Miller, Politics News

Obama must have been disappointed when the non-partisan CBO announced last week that the Dem's healthcare bills won't cut spending, as he won't sign a bill that doesn't contain cost cuts.

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Weekly Audit: Bigger Than "Too Big to Fail"

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business

Congress should be writing regulations to curb risk in the financial system as fast as bankers are paying themselves bonuses. They're our representatives, after all, and it's our money.

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Journalists Under Fire (And Who's Helping)

Julia Moulden | Posted 07.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Mark Brayne, Journalists, The Nation, Dart Center, Bbc, New Radicals, Eyal Press, George Tiller, Careers, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Julia Moulden, Journalism, Living News

Did you read Nicholas D. Kristof's "Bullets Over Beijing," his account of being in Tiananmen Square on that fateful night twenty years ago? Uniformed...

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Dennis Perrin Sounds Off on Jon Stewart, Barack Obama, and The Nation

Christian Avard | Posted 06.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Palestine, The Nation, Firedoglakecom, Gaza, Jon Stewart, Harry Truman, Glenn Greenwald, Israel, Viacom, Democratic Party, The Daily Show, Barack Obama, Torture, Jane Hamsher, Entertainment News

Dennis Perrin: I would like to see more direct action but I knew early on in the Obama administration that it was just not going to happen.

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Lawrence Korb and I Debate Military Escalation in Afghanistan (Video)

Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

I believe the more responsible and effective strategy moving forward is to take US-led military escalation off the table, begin to withdraw US troops and support a regional diplomatic solution.

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This Week in Magazines: Where Have All the Christians Gone? How Corporate America's Self-Interest May Trump Concern with Drugs and Guns in Mexico, Katha Pollitt Critiques the Michelle Obama Critiques

James Warren | Posted 05.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, Michelle Obama, The Nation, This Week in Magazines, New Yorker, Business Week, Michelle Obama Style, Media News

Katha Pollitt has had about enough of the amateur psychoanalyzing of Michelle Obama, as well as those who seem somehow threatened, even by her bare arms.

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Ask the President

Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Ask the President, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation, Ari Melber, Obama Transparency, Politics News

Barack Obama's pledged to make his administration "the most open and transparent in history." This week we are launching a new project to continue that effort: "Ask the President."

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Harry Reid Promises Republicans He'll Never Call Their Bluff

Ari Melber | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

After watching this absurdity playing out in the stimulus debate, people are calling on Sen. Reid to make the Republicans follow through and actually filibuster legislation and show this spectacle to the public.

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