Christopher Hayes | The Nation

They’re hyper-educated, ambitious and well rewarded. So why are our elites so incompetent?

Is America finally learning that extreme inequality isn't just bad for those at the bottom—it’s ruinous for those on top, too?

It's time to banish our dangerously-simplified us-versus-them mentality and recognize the world as it is: shot through with suffering and complexity.

Transcript for the April 1, 2011, episode of The Breakdown, featuring Barry C. Lynn.

The biggest threat to economic recovery—and to President Obama's shot at re-election—is the price of gas. Why is Wall Street still allowed to aggravate the uncertainty in the market?

For the condo-buying, sushi-eating Beltway elite, the recession is over. For the rest of America—not so much.

The uprising in Egypt is a rare opportunity to support democracy without imperialism. Will Obama take the chance?

The most important vote of the 112th Senate will likely be its first.

A federal court in Virginia ruled Monday that an aspect of Obama's healthcare reform law is unconstitutional. In this previously posted episode of The Breakdown, Christopher Hayes asks Columbia law professor Gillian Metzger whether this argument holds up.

Republicans have spent their postelection victory lap fearmongering over the deficit. But now they've insisted all Bush tax cuts be extended, at great price to the national debt.