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Tim Fernholz on how the battle for health care reform resembles the battle over the stimulus, and what it means for the future of the effort: The news of late on the president’s agenda has been stalls and difficulties; a much ballyhooed July 18 Washington Post poll found public approval of the president’s handling of […]

Roberto Lovato explains how the backers of the Honduran coup may have an inside man in Washington: “If you want to understand who the real power behind the [Honduran] coup is,” says Robert White, president of the Washington-based Center for International Policy, during a recent interview, “you need to find out who’s paying Lanny Davis.” […]

Michelle Goldberg on the controversy over White House science czar John Holdren’s past writings: There’s a conservative campaign against White House science czar John Holdren, and it seems to be ratcheting up. At the heart of it is a textbook book that Holdren co-wrote in 1977 with the famous neo-Malthusians Paul and Anne Ehrlich. Quotations […]

Paul Waldman explains why the GOP was its own worst enemy during the Sotomayor confirmation hearings: For many years, progressives have admired the strategic and rhetorical unity conservatives always manage to achieve whenever a new debate emerges. The fact that Republicans and their allies seem to speak with one voice — making the same arguments, […]

Courtney Martin presents some lessons feminists can learn from Sarah Palin’s rise and fall: I almost heard the crinoline and ruffles crunching as Alice Paul turned over in her grave when Sarah Palin jubilantly shouted, “Life is about choices!” during her resignation speech a couple of weeks ago. It’s not that “choice” was a framing […]

Dayo Olopade on how the White House manages the expectations of its base and of progressive groups: In Barack Obama’s White House, there’s a fine line between tourism and negotiation. The Obama team assiduously courted various liberal interest groups over the course of the 2008 campaign and found itself, upon election, inundated with speaking requests, […]

Terence Samuel on why Dick Cheney’s reemergence can only be good for the Obama administration: Much of Obama’s success thus far is due to the last administration’s unpopularity. Still looming is the question of how well Obama will fare when he could no longer ride the waves of antipathy toward George W. Bush. Luckily, just […]

Michelle Goldberg on the opportunities–and the challenges–for Hillary Clinton as she promotes women’s issues on the world stage: Hillary Clinton is not our first female secretary of state, but she is our first explicitly feminist one. She’s been an iconic figure in the movement for women’s rights globally ever since she gave her historic 1995 […]

Harold Meyerson tells the story of Wal-Mart and other discount retailers exploiting their workers in California warehouses, and asks whether organizers can make a difference: Like the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors, to which few Angelenos travel, the Fontana warehouse district, which employs roughly 100,000 workers, is one of the key crossroads of the […]

Gershom Gorenberg looks at a newly-published account from Israeli soldiers of the recent Gaza incursion: “We didn’t see a single house that was not hit. The entire infrastructure, tracks, fields, roads — was in total ruin,” an anonymous soldier says, describing his days in the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli incursion last […]