This Week on Tap This Week on Tap
This week to break the impasse over the Senate-passed FISA bill, House Dems may split the legislation into two titles for separate votes--one that authorizes surveillance activiti...
Mar 3, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Obama, Canada, NAFTA and Some ‘Straight Talk’ Obama, Canada, NAFTA and Some ‘Straight Talk’
Did Barack Obama's campaign quietly contact Canadian officials to tell them not to take seriously the Illinois senator's tough talk about renegotiating trade agreements? CTV, the...
Mar 1, 2008 / John Nichols
Beef Inside SEIU Beef Inside SEIU
Steven Greenhouse at the Times as the run-down on the latest intramural battles inside the Service Employees International Union. This tussle started back in early February when...
Feb 29, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Friday Capitol Letter Friday Capitol Letter
In the House....After last week's indictment of Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.), the House continued its skittish debate over the creation of an independent ethics office. Democrats yan...
Feb 29, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Free Onsaloo Free Onsaloo
It's a truism that if there's one thing that repressive regimes, from Zimbabwe to China, hate, it's independent trade unions. Not surprising, then, that Iran has been imprisoning...
Feb 29, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Politics of Place The Politics of Place
This Atlantic piece about the ex-urbs as the new slums is scary, but plausible. I understand politicians don't necessarily want to be doomsayers, but there's a startling disconnec...
Feb 29, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Banging Obama For Making Sense on Trade Banging Obama For Making Sense on Trade
Barack Obama has adopted a cautiously critical stance with regard to free-trade agreements such as NAFTA. The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination is hardly pr...
Feb 29, 2008 / John Nichols
Ron Paul Has a Rival Ron Paul Has a Rival
In the run-up to this Tuesday's Texas primary, Congressman Ron Paul is facing a challenge from one Chris Peden, the personable Republican mayor pro tem of Friendswood, who says th...
Feb 29, 2008 / Chris Hayes
On the Alert On the Alert
The ACLU has announced the U.S. "Terrorist Watch List" is veering ever closer to the 1-million mark, reaching over 900,000 names this week (up from 500,000 this past June). Despi...
Feb 28, 2008 / Chris Hayes
US Prisons: Still #1 US Prisons: Still #1
The United States' rapidly metastasizing prison population has reached a new milestone: as the NYT reports, today, more than one in 100 Americans are behind bars. For some groups...
Feb 28, 2008 / Chris Hayes