California Decision Makes Same-Sex Marriage a 2008 Issue California Decision Makes Same-Sex Marriage a 2008 Issue
Same-sex marriage just made a major comeback as a campaign issue. Today's ruling by the California Supreme Court that a reasonable reading of the state constitution prevents the ...
May 15, 2008 / John Nichols
Pentagon, Pimps & Propaganda (continued) Pentagon, Pimps & Propaganda (continued)
A few weeks ago, I posted on New York Times reporter David Barstow's front-page story exposing the Pentagon's propaganda machine. Through rigorous documentation, Barstow reveale...
May 15, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
More on Grover More on Grover
Two things: With the 500-word limit in my last post I wasn't able to include the obvious caveat that Norquist's worldview is odious and that's he a pretty malign influence in Ame...
May 15, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Vote-Movers, Deficits and the Blue Dogs Vote-Movers, Deficits and the Blue Dogs
At a talk at New America this afternoon, Grover Norquist hit upon one of my abiding obsessions in politics, the difference between what issues people respond to in polls and what ...
May 15, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Morning Links Morning Links
Some things to read this morning: 1) Digby on vote suppression and disenfranchisement in Missouri. 2) George Bush partying like it's 1939. Again.
May 15, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Fallon for Congress Fallon for Congress
Co-written by Dinelle Lucchesi. With this historic and virtually eternal Democratic presidential primary soaking up all the oxygen some of the worthiest state candidates are bein...
May 15, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Paraphrase This: How High Did This Scheme Go? Paraphrase This: How High Did This Scheme Go?
Yesterday morning, Burger King's Senior Analyst of Communications, Denise Wilson, sent me an e-mail saying that the company had "terminated two employees who participated in unaut...
May 14, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Trust, Verified Trust, Verified
In last week's lede editorial, the editors wrote: The stinging defeats of the Bush years (and, stretching back, of the age of Reagan) have induced a nagging self-doubt among many...
May 14, 2008 / Chris Hayes
What Pro Israel Means What Pro Israel Means
The other J Street founder Jeremy Ben-Ami takes to the pages to the Washington Post to itemize 5 Myths on Who's Really Pro-Israel. Amidst the latest bout of mid-east nonsense in ...
May 14, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Drugging U.S. Detainees Drugging U.S. Detainees
Last month, Congressional Quarterly reported that there was little doubt that the government--under John Yoo's 2003 memo--had approved the use of mind-altering drugs to weaken the...
May 14, 2008 / Chris Hayes