GOP Goes After… Community Organizers? GOP Goes After… Community Organizers?
You know what's fun? Sitting in a room with thousands of people who run the country and listening to them unleash their full fury at how unfairly they're been treated. It's like l...
Sep 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Notes on Political Cant Notes on Political Cant
You know how if you repeat a word long and often enough it begins to become a different word: the sounds break off from each other and thin out and you achieve some sort of altere...
Sep 3, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Party of Taft The Party of Taft
At one level, yesterday's Ron Paul event was a political sideshow. (This despite the fact it drew some big names: EMceed by none other than Tucker Carlson and addressed by Grover ...
Sep 3, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Dangers of Constitutionalism The Dangers of Constitutionalism
I just spent a few hours at the Ron Paul rally, about which I'll have more to say later. But as I listened to the speakers get misty eyed over the constitution and describe their ...
Sep 2, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Labor Day at the RNC Labor Day at the RNC
I spent yesterday trying to celebrate the struggles of working people while still covering the RNC. An impossible task, you say? Well, tried. My dispatch can be found here.
Sep 2, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Not About Issues Not About Issues
Yesterday, I quoted Obama's contention in his speech that, Republicans are attempting to "make a big election about small things." Well, today the McCain campaign manager admitte...
Sep 2, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Blue-Collar Republicans Blue-Collar Republicans
The Republican Party has set itself firmly against the agenda of the labor movement. So to observe Labor Day in St. Paul was a strange experience indeed.
Sep 2, 2008 / Feature / Chris Hayes
New Campaign, Please New Campaign, Please
This campaign really has become some kind of caricature of trivinalia. Now we're getting press releases about the pregnancy of a Vice Presidential candidate's daughter? I'm remi...
Sep 1, 2008 / Chris Hayes
If It Keeps On Raining… If It Keeps On Raining…
It's hard to tell at this point just how bad Gustav is going to be. CNN Is reporting that the industrial canal levees have been breached and water is pouring into the lower nin...
Sep 1, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Security State Security State
I arrived too late in Minneapolis to witness the police (and FBI) raiding the houses of supposed protesters, but a number of people have been doing incredible coverage of it. Rea...
Sep 1, 2008 / Chris Hayes