Pulp Nonfiction Pulp Nonfiction
A tax loophole could let the ten largest paper companies rake in a whopping $8 billion. Where's the outrage?
Apr 2, 2009 / Chris Hayes
The Senate is Broken The Senate is Broken
Over the weekend, during a drive to and from New York I listened to Steven Johnson's enjoyable and stimulating new book The Invention of Air. It's about a British scientist/preach...
Mar 31, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Week In Preview Week In Preview
From Greg Kaufmann: Now that Obama has announced his Af/Pak strategy there will be a whole host of hearings about it this week. One that was already in the works was the Congre...
Mar 30, 2009 / Chris Hayes
On Budgets and Europe On Budgets and Europe
A dispatch from Greg Kaufmann: On Budgets and Europe Thursday afternoon, I was one of the 18 viewers in the age 3 to 100 demographic watching the Senate Budget Committee's marku...
Mar 30, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Experts of the World Unite Experts of the World Unite
Despite Obama's inaugural call for a New Era of Responsibility, the old cynicism threatens a comeback.
Mar 26, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Update on Gary Gensler Update on Gary Gensler
Six weeks ago I wrote a column about Gary Gensler, Obama's problematic nominee to be chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission As Robert Scheer points out here, Bernie S...
Mar 25, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Thoughts on the Press (Conference) Thoughts on the Press (Conference)
I was in the East Room of the White House last night for the press conference. I was, alas, not one of the 13 journalists given an opportunity to ask the president a question, tho...
Mar 25, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Specter Stabs Unions in the Back Specter Stabs Unions in the Back
A Democratic politician once said of Arlen Specter that he's "always there when you don't need him." Well, the Employee Free Choice Act, was one place where we did need him. He wa...
Mar 24, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Taking Back the Economy Taking Back the Economy
Laura Dean attended the local Take Back the Economy protest today and files this dispatch: Quite a crowd had gathered outside AIG's K street offices despite the dreary weather fo...
Mar 19, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Grassley to Rush: More Lies Please Grassley to Rush: More Lies Please
I think there's a fascinating cultural difference between the way that Democratic politicians view the progressive base (as something to keep distance from, to be triangulated aga...
Mar 19, 2009 / Chris Hayes