Holding Out for a Better Bill Holding Out for a Better Bill
The Nation's DC Editor Chris Hayes reports on The Rachel Maddow Show that stalling the financial reform legislation has introduced stronger consumer protections.
May 20, 2010 / Press Room
Holding Out for a Better Bill Holding Out for a Better Bill
The Nation's DC Editor Chris Hayes reports on The Rachel Maddow Show that stalling the financial reform legislation has introduced stronger consumer protections.
May 20, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Crude Awakenings Crude Awakenings
On the one-month anniversary of the BP spill watch a live feed and fight back against the oil economy.
May 20, 2010 / Peter Rothberg
Oil Spill? What Oil Spill? Oil Spill? What Oil Spill?
On The Weekly Standard's reassurance of the safety of offshore oil rigs, Alter-Reviews and how to submit mail.
May 20, 2010 / Eric Alterman
As Elena Kagan’s Confirmation Hearing Approaches, We’re Reminded of John Roberts’s Promise to Be an Umpire Calling Balls and Strikes As Elena Kagan’s Confirmation Hearing Approaches, We’re Reminded of John Roberts’s Promise to Be an Umpire Calling Balls and Strikes
It's a shifty strike zone.
May 20, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Primary Colors Primary Colors
After May 18's primaries, it's clear: despite all the Tea Party talk, there's as much turbulence among Democrats as Republicans.
May 20, 2010 / The Editors
Any Given Sunday Any Given Sunday
We can't get financial reform on the scale we need without embarrassing people.
May 20, 2010 / Chris Hayes
Whacking the Old Folks Whacking the Old Folks
Will Social Security become President Obama's sacrificial lamb?
May 20, 2010 / William Greider
What We’ve Become What We’ve Become
Three thousand Americans, imprisoned for being "sexually dangerous," are locked up not for what they've done but for what someone fears they will do.
May 20, 2010 / JoAnn Wypijewski
She-Lawyers and Other Improbable Creatures She-Lawyers and Other Improbable Creatures
We're not anxious about whether Elena Kagan is gay. We're anxious about whether she's masculine.
May 20, 2010 / Column / Patricia J. Williams