Memorializing Memorializing
Hope everyone enjoyed the Memorial Day Weekend. I took a long walk down the entire length of the Mall yesterday and it was deeply affecting: Vietnam veterans and their families cl...
May 27, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Obama v.Recount, Democracy v. Thugocracy Obama v.Recount, Democracy v. Thugocracy
This Memorial Day Sunday, Barack Obama did what he described as "pinch-hitting" for one of his personal heroes, Senator Edward Kennedy. From many accounts, Obama's commencement ad...
May 26, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
McCain Rejects Another Hate-Preaching Pastor McCain Rejects Another Hate-Preaching Pastor
The last days of May will be remembered as the time of the long knives in John McCain's camp, a period that saw the presumptive Republican candidate for president purge his crusad...
May 23, 2008 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: Coalition for Immokalee Workers Wins Sweet Victory: Coalition for Immokalee Workers Wins
In March 2005, I started a weekly feature called "Sweet Victories." Theidea was to chronicle progressive victories --electoral wins, protestsand boycotts, the launching of new i...
May 23, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Friday Capitol Letter Friday Capitol Letter
In the House…. On Wednesday, the House passed a $54-billion tax package that expands individual and business tax credits and creates $17 billion in renewable energy incentives. ...
May 23, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Five Years of Mistaken Imprisonment Five Years of Mistaken Imprisonment
At first, Murat Kurnaz's voice stubbornly refused to come through. The satellite connection faltered, and the first Guantanamo detainee to ever share his experiences before Congre...
May 22, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Obama Gets Farm Bill Right Obama Gets Farm Bill Right
The federal farm bill that President Bush vetoed and that the Congress has enacted despite him is, to be sure, a flawed document. For instance, there are still too many of the wro...
May 22, 2008 / John Nichols
Kennedy–The Senate’s Fighting Liberal Kennedy–The Senate’s Fighting Liberal
"I would not be here as a presidential candidate were it not for some of the battles he fought as a senator. He battled for voting rights and civil rights when I was a child. I st...
May 21, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dirty Work Dirty Work
First we outsourced torture to others. Now others outsource it to us! U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intellig...
May 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Obama Gets Pledged Delegate Majority, But Clinton Stays In Obama Gets Pledged Delegate Majority, But Clinton Stays In
Barack Obama may have reached what he describes as "a major milestone on this journey" up the 2008 campaign trail. The senator from Illinois has now secured a majority of the "ple...
May 21, 2008 / John Nichols