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