The Breakdown: How to Bust the Filibuster The Breakdown: How to Bust the Filibuster
Could the Senate start getting things done, if only legislators didn't have to face filibuster threats? This week on The Breakdown: the history of the filibuster, and how to get ri...
Jan 7, 2011 / Chris Hayes
Obama’s New Wall Street White House Obama’s New Wall Street White House
Ari Berman explains the message Obama is sending by appointing William Daley and Gene Sperling to his White House team.
Jan 7, 2011 / Press Room
Obama’s New Wall Street White House Obama’s New Wall Street White House
Ari Berman explains the message Obama is sending by appointing William Daley and Gene Sperling to his White House team.
Jan 7, 2011 / Democracy Now!
Tea Partisan Congressmen Misread the Constitution—Literally and Figuratively Tea Partisan Congressmen Misread the Constitution—Literally and Figuratively
They missed the part about assuring against monarchy and dictatorship. Figures.
Jan 7, 2011 / John Nichols
Thousands Pay Tribute to Judy Bonds Thousands Pay Tribute to Judy Bonds
She has been to the mountaintop—and we must fight harder to save it.
Jan 6, 2011 / Jeff Biggers
Leaving the People Out of the Debate Leaving the People Out of the Debate
It's not just the unemployed we don't tend to see on US TV. Take public workers. They're in the news every day, but it's not actually them. It's people talking about them.
Jan 6, 2011 / Laura Flanders
Why the Lack of Protest on American Campuses? Why the Lack of Protest on American Campuses?
Service is one thing, and activism—particularly in opposition to university policy—is another.
Jan 6, 2011 / StudentNation / James Cersonsky
Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase
In the spring of 1942, three years after the fall of Spain to Franco’s Nationalists, a suitcase containing an archive of 4,500 negatives of photographs of the Spanish Civil W…
Jan 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Obama—Too Big to Fail? Obama—Too Big to Fail?
Why are Robert Reich and Howard Dean getting all bromantic with Bill Daley, Obama's choice for White House Chief of Staff?
Jan 6, 2011 / Richard Kim
Jurassic Justice Antonin Scalia (Unintentionally) Makes the Case for an Equal Rights Amendment Jurassic Justice Antonin Scalia (Unintentionally) Makes the Case for an Equal Rights Amendment
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the guru of the Tea Party Constitutionalists, sees no protection against discrimination in the Constitution. NOW says: "A...
Jan 6, 2011 / John Nichols