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Bernie Sanders Does Small “d” Democracy Bernie Sanders Does Small “d” Democracy

Last Monday, well over 300 Vermonters packed City Hall in downtown Burlington. It was standing room only with every seat on the floor and in the balcony occupied. The occasion w...

Apr 5, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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

King, Kennedy and April 4, 1968 King, Kennedy and April 4, 1968

Forty years ago today, on the Democratic presidential campaign trail in Indiana, one of the most remarkable moments in American political history occurred. New York Senator Rober...

Apr 4, 2008 / John Nichols

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

Dorgan vs. the FCC Dorgan vs. the FCC

These days, when Sen. Dorgan (D-North Dakota) makes the case that the FCC has moved from referee to cheerleader in the fight over media control -- "shaking the pom-poms for more m...

Apr 2, 2008 / Chris Hayes

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