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The Breakdown: How to Bust the Filibuster

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...

Aug 5, 2010 / Chris Hayes

We Have Yet to See the Biggest Costs of the BP Spill

We Have Yet to See the Biggest Costs of the BP Spill We Have Yet to See the Biggest Costs of the BP Spill

The full extent of the damage from the BP disaster will not be known for years, but if we are to learn anything now, we must confront the question: What are the true costs of ...

Aug 5, 2010 / Raj Patel

Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Whose Hands? Whose Blood?

Killing civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Aug 5, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt

Left, Right and Wrong Left, Right and Wrong

On Nascar, concussions, Israel and Raul Malo.

Aug 5, 2010 / Eric Alterman

The Right’s New Media Scare Tactics The Right’s New Media Scare Tactics

The right is using the internet and social networking sites to make stuff up about undocumented immigrants. On The Rachel Maddow Show, Melissa Harris-Lacewell asks why the left is...

Aug 5, 2010 / Press Room

Is the Tea Party Falling Apart? Is the Tea Party Falling Apart?

Melissa Harris-Lacewell talks about the key losses for the Tea Party in the Michigan and Missouri primaries.

Aug 5, 2010 / Press Room

Is the Tea Party Falling Apart? Is the Tea Party Falling Apart?

Melissa Harris-Lacewell talks about the key losses for the Tea Party in the Michigan and Missouri primaries.

Aug 5, 2010 / Countdown

Rep. Dennis Kucinich Seeks to Ban Assassinations of US Citizens Rep. Dennis Kucinich Seeks to Ban Assassinations of US Citizens

Kucinich's legislation says: "No one, including the President, may instruct a person…to engage in, or conspire to engage in, the extrajudicial killing of a United State...

Aug 5, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill

Welcome to Recovery for the Rich Welcome to Recovery for the Rich

Geithner doesn't want his declaration of Mission Accomplished over the economy to go the way of that other one.

Aug 5, 2010 / Laura Flanders

The Right’s New Media Scare Tactics

The Right’s New Media Scare Tactics The Right’s New Media Scare Tactics

The right is using the internet and social networking sites to make stuff up about undocumented immigrants. On The Rachel Maddow Show, Melissa Harris-Lacewell asks why the left isn...

Aug 5, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show

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