FISA Cave In FISA Cave In
The phrase "cave-in" can get thrown around too often. Legislation requires compromise, and activists are pretty much never completely happy with anything that actually manages to ...
Jun 19, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Habeas for Osama Habeas for Osama
Not that that's what the court decision calls for or what Obama is advocating for, but I make the case here, starting at around the seven minute mark. It was pointed out to me...
Jun 19, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Donna Edwards Donna Edwards
I had the pleasure of spending a weekend at an event put on by the Arca Foundation earlier this spring. Donna Edwards was there, in her capacity as the foundation's president, and...
Jun 19, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Z.Z. Rice, Appeaser Z.Z. Rice, Appeaser
In case Barack Obama was feeling lonely being called an "appeaser" by the neocons, he has company: the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is apoplectic over Co...
Jun 18, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Goes Soft on Free Trade Obama Goes Soft on Free Trade
Republican John McCain is most militantly pro-free trade presidential candidate. That fact, alone, should guarantee his defeat in Ohio and other industrial states where his strate...
Jun 18, 2008 / John Nichols
Capitol Word Capitol Word
Sunlight Foundation unveiled a new microsite today that isolates the single word most mentioned during the previous day's congressional session. Interesting note: you have to go...
Jun 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Meet The New Boss Meet The New Boss
Today comes word from the Obama camp that they've formed a Senior Working Group on National Security. Reminiscent of the recent appointment of Jason Furman to a top economic polic...
Jun 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Latest Obama Rumor Latest Obama Rumor
Via Slate: Barack Obama wears a FLAG PIN at all times. Even in the shower. ...There's only one artist on Barack Obama's iPod: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. Scary stuff.
Jun 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Get Me Rewrite: NYT Spins for McCain Get Me Rewrite: NYT Spins for McCain
Recalling the worst of Judith Miller's reporting on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the New York Time ran one of its "fair and balanced" stories on the presidential race Mond...
Jun 18, 2008 / John Nichols