Ralph was Right Ralph was Right
From the credit-where-credit-is-due file. The Nader campaign sends along an email pointing out that Nader more or less predicted the current meltdown: Eight years ago, consumer a...
Sep 16, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Change That’s Kind of Hard to Believe In Change That’s Kind of Hard to Believe In
Senator Obama did a call this morning with some of his key economic advisors including Paul Volcker, Bob Rubin, Lawrence Summers and Laura Tyson about the state of the financial ...
Sep 15, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Deep Thought Deep Thought
It's a bit strange that we've been spending so much time digging into the town politics of Wasilla, AK (pop. 9,780) while the entire American financial system implodes. Big electi...
Sep 15, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Appreciation: David Foster Wallace Appreciation: David Foster Wallace
One of the most vexing frustrations of the human condition is the fact that we are forever caged inside our own minds. Love, romantic and familial, and friendship, bring us as clo...
Sep 14, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Feminism We Can Believe In Feminism We Can Believe In
The entire Palin Phenomenon is so transparent and craven and crassly designed to make the media chase its own tail, that I've been attempting to exercise restraint in my Palin blo...
Sep 11, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Seven Years Seven Years
I don't have anything particularly eloquent to say today, though I do wonder if the sudden turn from the idiocy of the campaign to the solemn memorialization of 9/11 will spark a ...
Sep 11, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Way Out of Iraq The Way Out of Iraq
Just read Steve Coll's edifying and nuanced profile of David Petraeus and it occurred to me that there's been kind of a strange flip between the two parties on Iraq. There was a t...
Sep 9, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Culture War Battle Stations Culture War Battle Stations
Part of the promise of the Obama campaign from the beginning has always been that he can somehow bring the culture wars to a close. There's reason to believe in this promise: if t...
Sep 9, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Food For Thought Food For Thought
Well, after two straight weeks of gorging on politics, I feel a bit nauseous and spent. I found both the DNC and RNC dizzying and exhausting (for different reasons), and throw on ...
Sep 8, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Community Organizers Fight Back Community Organizers Fight Back
Organizers are not particularly practiced at taking things lying down. Surprise! "I have ‘actual responsibilities,'" said Jacqueline del Valle, a community organizer in the B...
Sep 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes