Let’s Get A-Changin’ at Treasury Let’s Get A-Changin’ at Treasury
This, from Barry Ritholtz about Timothy Geithner's performance so far is pretty on the money: I've noticed something I find a bit disturbing about our new Treasury Secretary: He ...
Jan 30, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Never Say You’re Sorry Never Say You’re Sorry
Why do people like Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Gary Gensler keep getting the Obama administration's plum jobs?
Jan 28, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Gore on Stimpak Energy Provisions: “Unprecedented” Gore on Stimpak Energy Provisions: “Unprecedented”
From correspondent Greg Kaufmann, a dispatch from Al Gore's testimony on the hill: Al Gore was back on the hill today, telling the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations what Cong...
Jan 28, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Disclosure Time Disclosure Time
Since the White House made it official today, I wanted to note as a matter of full disclosure that my wife Kate Shaw is now an attorney in the Office of the White House Counsel. O...
Jan 28, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Worth Fighting For Worth Fighting For
This has, all things considered, been a pretty great week for the republic: executive orders increasing government transparency, banning torture, and beginning the process of clos...
Jan 27, 2009 / Chris Hayes
The Week Ahead The Week Ahead
Correspondent Greg Kaufmann writes in with a look at the week ahead on the Hill: Here's the big stuff everyone will cover: The $825 billion recovery package will be taken up by t...
Jan 26, 2009 / Chris Hayes
The First Hundred Days The First Hundred Days
Starting in this week's magazine, I'll be writing a weekly column chronicling the Obama administration's first 100 days. What I'm interested in is the mechanics of changes, that i...
Jan 23, 2009 / Chris Hayes
‘I Saw My People’ ‘I Saw My People’
Washington desperately needs new blood. Will Obama's people provide the necessary transfusion?
Jan 22, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Harry Reid on EFCA Harry Reid on EFCA
Yesterday, Senate Democrats convened the third annual Senate Progressive Summit, a day-long series of panels with the senators and various progressive media folks, Mother Jones, T...
Jan 22, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Connecting the Dots on Torture Connecting the Dots on Torture
It's a been a while since I was a practicing logician in college, but let me see if I can lay this out. 1) Yesterday, AG designee Eric Holder said, without hesitation that water-...
Jan 16, 2009 / Chris Hayes