The Dark Side of the Moon The Dark Side of the Moon
Well, I don't have much to add to all the frenetic speculation and schaundenfraude following word that Eliot Spitzer has been linked to a prostitution ring. But the whole sordid m...
Mar 10, 2008 / Chris Hayes
How Comcast Sees the World How Comcast Sees the World
Sure, the 9/11 card gets pulled a lot. But really, this is ridiculous.
Mar 10, 2008 / Chris Hayes
This Week On Tap This Week On Tap
This week, the House is scheduled to take up HR 895, which would establish an independent Office of Congressional Ethics. (No guarantee, however, on whether it will actually go to...
Mar 10, 2008 / Chris Hayes
NSA’s Domestic Spying Arm Extends NSA’s Domestic Spying Arm Extends
Today, the WSJ reports that NSA--once confined to foreign surveillance--has built a domestic surveillance program that can sift through individuals' phone records, email subject l...
Mar 10, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Chart of the Day Chart of the Day
You've seen this before, but this a particularly adept visualization.
Mar 10, 2008 / Chris Hayes
A 3,400-Page Paper Trail A 3,400-Page Paper Trail
With the House continuing its tussle over ethics reform this week, now seems like an apt moment to pause and highlight the simultaneous, ongoing Senate refusal to evolve on issues...
Mar 7, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Friday Capitol Letter Friday Capitol Letter
In the House….Over a decade after its initial introduction, the Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equality Act--which requires more generous coverage for the 113 million Ame...
Mar 7, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Hiding in the Cayman Islands Hiding in the Cayman Islands
Here in the United States, overseas tax evasion enjoys a bizarre degree of acceptance, with some tax avoidance purveyors even going so far as to try and patent some of their fanci...
Mar 6, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Immigration Reform? Senate GOP Weighs In Immigration Reform? Senate GOP Weighs In
Yesterday, seemingly unperturbed by the recent failure of immigration-as-a-wedge efforts at the ballot box, Senate Republicans introduced their most jerkily reactive set of immigr...
Mar 6, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The NSA and Your Inbox The NSA and Your Inbox
As the Democrats prepare to fold on FISA, this week's comments from Assistant AG for National Security Kenneth Wainstein suggest that what the White House is really after isn't in...
Mar 6, 2008 / Chris Hayes