Missile Defense: “Longest Running Scam” Exposed Missile Defense: “Longest Running Scam” Exposed
In Congress yesterday, Representative John Tierney, Chair of the House National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, convened the first in a series of hearings to examine a ...
Mar 7, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
NAFTA-gate Focus Turns to Clinton NAFTA-gate Focus Turns to Clinton
TORONTO -- Here's an intriguing twist on the whole "NAFTA-gate" scandal: Barack Obama's campaign may not have been the only one suggesting to Canadian officials that they need not...
Mar 7, 2008 / John Nichols
Hiding in the Cayman Islands Hiding in the Cayman Islands
Here in the United States, overseas tax evasion enjoys a bizarre degree of acceptance, with some tax avoidance purveyors even going so far as to try and patent some of their fanci...
Mar 6, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Immigration Reform? Senate GOP Weighs In Immigration Reform? Senate GOP Weighs In
Yesterday, seemingly unperturbed by the recent failure of immigration-as-a-wedge efforts at the ballot box, Senate Republicans introduced their most jerkily reactive set of immigr...
Mar 6, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The NSA and Your Inbox The NSA and Your Inbox
As the Democrats prepare to fold on FISA, this week's comments from Assistant AG for National Security Kenneth Wainstein suggest that what the White House is really after isn't in...
Mar 6, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Dean to Michigan, Florida: “Do Over” Dean to Michigan, Florida: “Do Over”
Now that a Democratic presidential race that was supposed to end in early February has evolved into a contest that may not end until late August, DNC chair Howard Dean has come to...
Mar 6, 2008 / John Nichols
Mental Health Parity Passes the House Mental Health Parity Passes the House
H.R. 1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act passed the house. Long overdue.
Mar 6, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Free Trade Free Trade
Yes, there is nothing more excellent than the United States vaunted Free Trade Regime.
Mar 6, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Afghanistan on the Burner Afghanistan on the Burner
Here's a bit of nostalgia for the past: In 2003, we worried because Afghanistan was cultivating 80,000 hectares of opium. Now that figure is 200,000, and Afghanistan accounts for ...
Mar 5, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The “Politically Influential” Working Families Party The “Politically Influential” Working Families Party
The Nation has been covering the ascendancy of The Working Families Party since it was started in 1998 by a group of labor and community activists who wanted to end the rightward ...
Mar 5, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel