Is What Blago Did Illegal? Is What Blago Did Illegal?
Playing devil's advocate for a moment. Obviously, if the tapes areaccurate, what Blagojevich was odious and unethical and dishonorable.But was it illegal? Here's why I ask: t...
Dec 12, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Is the Auto Bailout Bill a Trap? Is the Auto Bailout Bill a Trap?
As my colleague John Nichols noted, the House passed the $15bn auto-bailout deal yesterday, with little Republican support. It now goes to the Senate where it's passage appears do...
Dec 11, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Pragmatist The Pragmatist
We get it. He's pragmatic. But what does that mean--politically and philosophically?
Dec 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Chris Hayes
Helping Workers Now Helping Workers Now
This dispatch comes from Nation reporter Gregory Kaufmann: Two new reports from the Center of American Progress (CAP) suggest that there is much the Obama Administration can do t...
Dec 9, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Consider Me Stimulated Consider Me Stimulated
Since I've strangely become some kind of spokesperson for "the left"'s discontent with Obama, let me say that the outline of the stimulus package he announced this morning made my...
Dec 6, 2008 / Chris Hayes
At The Table At The Table
Back in the winter days of the primary when Center for Community Change hosted their forum on community values in Iowa, they invited all of the presidential candidates to listen t...
Dec 5, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Realizing the Promise Realizing the Promise
I'm here at the Hilton ballroom is Washington DC at the Realizing the Promise forum. It's organized by the Center for Community Change and the Gameliel foundation and is a kind of...
Dec 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Is Personnel Policy? Is Personnel Policy?
Yglesias (via his cronies at CAP) reports that Melody Barnes will run Obama's Domestic Policy Council. That's good news. I think she counts as a "dyed-in-the-wool progressive." ...
Nov 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Ain’t No Love In the Heart of the Citi Ain’t No Love In the Heart of the Citi
Lots of bailout news today, which is never a very good sign. Mark Thoma rounds up the opinions on it here and I'm still digesting, but my sense is that, as Krugman says it's "a lo...
Nov 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Left Out Left Out
I've been trying to avoid commenting on specific personnel for the Obama administration, because it's hard to know what's real and what's rumor, and because it's also difficult to...
Nov 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes