Chris Matthews: Do White Voters Hold Black Politicians To A Higher Standard?
Last night on Hardball, Chris Matthews posed an interesting question: do white voters hold black politicians to a higher standard than they do white politicians? Impressing that enthusiasm for Obama...
View ArticleVan Jones Hits White House For ‘Sit Down, Shut Up, We’ll Take Care Of It’...
Former White House “green jobs czar” turned Glenn Beck frienemy Van Jones has recently reemerged calling for the left to take notes from the populist uprisings America saw with the Tea Party movement,...
View ArticleMelissa Harris-Perry Calls Out Lawrence O’Donnell Over Herman Cain Interview
On Friday’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell devoted two segments to the fallout from his polarizing interview with GOP rising star Herman Cain. O’Donnell acknowledged getting strong positive and...
View ArticleInside Up With Chris Hayes: The Best (And Worst) Part Of Waking Up Weekends
It’s fast becoming the worst-kept secret in cable news that Chris Hayes is ruining people’s weekends. The editor-at-large of The Nation, former Rachel Maddow fill-in, and (for the past few weeks) proud...
View ArticleLeave To Tebow What is Tebow’s: Pundits Should Leave The Player Out Of Politics
Politics is a name game. It is about who you know– at least in the sense that knowing who the players are in this elaborate dance that defines how we govern ourselves is critical to successful...
View ArticleFireworks On Melissa Harris Perry As Ezra Klein And Nick Gillespie Clash
Usually in the business of chronicling cable news, a debate on austerity and inflation is a pretty hard sell. In a world of Jeremiah Wrights and Sandra Flukes, the Euro crisis is rather low on the...
View ArticleUp-rage 2: Electric Boogaloo – Chris Hayes Guest Jeremy Scahill Calls...
Last Sunday, Up with Chris Hayes host Chris Hayes ignited significant outrage with his musings about the word “heroes.” This morning, Up panelist and national security reporter for The Nation Jeremy...
View ArticleGreat, Chris Hayes Panel Also Missing The Point Of The Lena Dunham Virginity Ad
Girls creator and star Lena Dunham‘s voting virginity ad caused a ridiculous freak-out on the right, with equal parts prudish fanning and triumphant over-reading of its significance fueled by the...
View ArticleGreta Van Susteren Scolds The Nation’s Katrina Vanden Heuvel For Taking Shot...
During the roundtable discussion of yesterday’s episode of ABC’s This Week, Fox News host Greta Van Susteren scolded co-panelist Katrina vanden Heuvel after the Nation editor took a stab at Fox News....
View ArticleThe Nation Invites Readers on Trip to Cuba
Not to be outdone with The New York Times‘s recent offer of Times-sponsored travel to Iran, The Nation magazine has struck back with the following offer: a “seven-night cultural and educational...
View ArticleScarborough Interview With Nation Editor Derails: ‘You’re Actually Defending...
A Morning Joe interview with The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel was completely derailed Monday morning after she refused to say whether or not she believed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is...
View ArticleRoland Martin Rips Democrats a New One For Ignoring Black Voters: ‘I Am Not a...
Black lives and black issues have gotten a lot of exposure during the Democratic presidential primary, but as author Steve Phillips points out in The Nation magazine, black people have largely been...
View ArticleThe Nation Calls for Joe Biden to ‘Withdraw From The Race’ in Stunning...
The Nation published an “anti-endorsement” of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Thursday, calling on the former Vice President to “withdraw from the race” so the Democratic Party has a...
View ArticleJournalist Says She Would Vote Biden Even ‘If He Boiled Babies and Ate Them’
CUNY TV The Nation columnist Katha Pollitt claimed on Wednesday she would vote for presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden even “if he boiled babies and ate...
View Article‘He Will Eat You Alive For His Own Purposes’: Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich...
Pedro Pardo, AFP via Getty Images Gregg Popovich, a frequent Trump critic, took his fiery rhetoric about President Donald Trump to a whole new level in a damning indictment of the president’s tone deaf...
View Article‘All They Have is Racism!’ Elie Mystal Says Hardest Part of Jackson Hearings...
Frequent MSNBC guest and Justice Correspondent for The Nation Elie Mystal went off on Republican critics of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying the most challenging part of her confirmation hearings...
View ArticleMSNBC’s Tiffany Cross and Elie Mystal Drag ‘Shucking and Jiving’ Black...
MSNBC host Tiffany Cross and Justice Correspondent for The Nation Elie Mystal went off on Black Republicans while Black Republican guest Rufus Montgomery disagreed, and praised former President Donald...
View ArticleMSNBC Liberals Triple-Team Republican Tim Miller for Disagreeing GOP is...
A battle raged on MSNBC between on-air talent who believe most Republicans are white nationalist fascists versus only many Republicans are white nationalist fascists versus they’re bad but “not the...
View ArticleElie Mystal Goes OFF Over Trump-Targeted Election Workers: Need Protection...
Justice Correspondent for The Nation Elie Mystal went off over the attacks endured by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Georgia election workers singled out by former President Donald Trump and his...
View ArticleWhite House Debunks NY Post Fact-Check of VP Kamala Harris’s First Time...
Scott Eisen/Getty Images for SEIU The White House pushed back on New York Post White House correspondent Steven Nelson‘s accusatory fact-check on the first time Vice President Kamala Harris ever at a...
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