1/6th There 1/6th There
If you can't beat the Electoral College, join them. Since last April, New Jersey and Maryland have signed onto the National Popular Vote compact, and today with Governor Blagojevi...
Apr 7, 2008 / Chris Hayes
This Week On Tap This Week On Tap
Talk of the Iraq War will dominate business on the Hill this week, as Gen. David Petraeus and ambassador Ryan Crocker offer their latest post-surge Congressional updates. It's bee...
Apr 7, 2008 / Chris Hayes
A Free Trade Thought Experiment A Free Trade Thought Experiment
Imagine a country where CEO's live in fear. In just the past five years, 400 CEO's -- from manufacturing, banking, real estate -- have been shot down in cold blood. (Thousands ove...
Apr 7, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Friday Capitol Letter Friday Capitol Letter
In the House...This week, a global AIDS bill authorizing $50 billion over five years secured passage by a 308-116 vote. The White House endorsed the legislation (somewhat tepidly,...
Apr 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Get Out the Pitchforks Get Out the Pitchforks
If Wall Street thinks the public is angry at it now, wait till stories like this start getting wider play.
Apr 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Forty Years Ago Today Forty Years Ago Today
(Full text) You can listen to NPR's morning interview with Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles-- who was listening to King's speech just a few feet away--here.
Apr 3, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Accountability for KBR? Accountability for KBR?
Just three months after Jamie Leigh Jones' horrific account of Halliburton gang-rape was heard in Congress, Karen Houppert talks to Lisa Smith, a KBR contractor who alleges she wa...
Apr 3, 2008 / Chris Hayes
How to Get Healthcare Reform How to Get Healthcare Reform
The problems facing progressives in a post-Bush landscape are not problems of "what". We know more or less what has to happen: withdrawal from Iraq, closing gitmo, universal healt...
Apr 3, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Service for Citizenship Service for Citizenship
Following up on Chris's post, a quick stat from the current Foreign Policy's military survey on a related theme: an overwhelming 78% of officers support granting citizenship to le...
Apr 2, 2008 / Chris Hayes
What To Do About Yoo What To Do About Yoo
Regarding the recently declassified John Yoo torture memo, Atrios says: I'm not entirely sure why there's something about John Yoo and our nation's fond embrace of torture which ...
Apr 2, 2008 / Chris Hayes