Another aftershock hit Haiti this morning, this one of magnitude 6.1. The devastation from the original quake is nowhere close to being contained, and sustained hits make it even harder to regain some sort of order in the country.

The comparisons between the earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans have come fast and furious, but often from people who've watched both disasters through the clean-cut white lens of Anderson Cooper broadcasts. Meanwhile, people in Haiti--and those in the Gulf Coast still struggling four years later--need more than blame and comparisons. They need real solutions.

Sexism certainly played a part in the way Coakley was treated in the senate race, and in the media. Her cold-fish personal style came in for no end of abuse. But it's sexist, too, to downplay her (barracuda) professional record. Before the President and the Dems take another dive to the right, it's at least worth asking: If the Dems had backed a real live, living-and-breathing progressive in the primaries, might things have turned out different?

In the wake of the failed underpants bombing attempt, new airport security rules have been added, and discussion has ramped up of the use of full-body scanners and other invasive technologies. We ask Liliana Segura of AlterNet and Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent if we can scan ourselves to safety, or if this is just more security theater designed to get us to give up our civil liberties.

Scott Brown, a Republican with tea party support, won the special election for the last two years of Ted Kennedy's Senate term last night over Democrat Martha Coakley. Predictably, the blame game has already started, with critiques leveled at everyone from Coakley herself to the President.

The euphoria of a year ago is dissipating. The struggles of the first year of the Obama administration are generating increasing demoralization and anger. Many progressives thought we had taken back America with the election of 2008, but in reality the work had only just begun.

Scott Brown, a Republican with tea party support, won the special election for the last two years of Ted Kennedy's Senate term last night over Democrat Martha Coakley. Predictably, the blame game has already started, with critiques leveled at everyone from Coakley herself to the President.

A year ago I was freezing on Mall with a few million others, watching the inauguration of a new President. Today I'm sweltering in my unnaturally hot office, fearing the inauguration of a new movement.

Well, Van Jones has been selected to serve as Green Jobs Adviser to the Obama administration. Jones, the author of The Green Collar Economy, will work within the Council on Environmental Quality. There’s something to be said for getting what you wish for. Back in October, during the height of the presidential campaign, I asked Van Jones if he would serve as director of the EPA in an Obama White House.

The Heritage Foundation didn't wait very long after the earthquake in Haiti to issue its recommendations for Shock Doctrine-style "reforms," and the IMF has already offered a conditional loan to help rebuild. Haiti has seen enough of this type of policy already, and is in need of a different type of thinking: one not imposed from without, but developed from within the country and its communities.