This Week On The Hill This Week On The Hill
From Greg Kaufmann, our weekly preview: The war supplemental, FY10 budget hearings, and credit card reform -- those are the big-ticket items this week. The House is expected to ...
May 12, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Baucus Healthcare Plan: Arrest Doctors, Nurses Baucus Healthcare Plan: Arrest Doctors, Nurses
Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, the insurance industry-friendly Democrat who is managing show hearings on healthcare reform, has come up with a novel way to express ...
May 12, 2009 / John Nichols
GOP Torture Blame Game: Target Pelosi GOP Torture Blame Game: Target Pelosi
The Nation's John Nichols encourages Nancy Pelosi to call the bluff of her right wing critics by testifying under oath on torture.
May 12, 2009 / The Ed Show
Robbing Us and Paying Out Robbing Us and Paying Out
The results of the Treasury Department's touted "stress tests" are out – and so far the result is a call for massive new capital for banks. It adds up to a ...
May 12, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Kai Wright: Chaos and the Mortgage Crisis Kai Wright: Chaos and the Mortgage Crisis
The foreclosure crisis is far from being resolved. Wright says that banks are still pursuing even those who have already given up their homes.
May 12, 2009 / GRITtv
L’Affaire Edwards: To Sabotage or Not? L’Affaire Edwards: To Sabotage or Not?
On the heels of Elizabeth Edwards' revelation in her new book that she wanted her husband to drop out of the race for the presidency after having an affair with videographer Rielle...
May 12, 2009 / Ari Berman
New US General Vs. Taliban, Pashtuns New US General Vs. Taliban, Pashtuns
The war in Afghanistan has been overshadowed in recent weeks by the crisis next door in Pakistan, but no more. Secretary of Defense Gates has fired the US commander there, General...
May 12, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Credit Card Holders Have Rights Too Credit Card Holders Have Rights Too
Momentum is shifting in Washington to to protect consumers from arbitrary rate hikes and other unfair and deceptive credit card practices.
May 12, 2009 / Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney
The Politics of Escalation The Politics of Escalation
Democrats in Congress are quashing criticism of military escalation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
May 12, 2009 / Tom Hayden and Joseph Gerson
Hex Mex Hex Mex
Amid the anti-Mexican media hysteria festering since the outbreak of swine flu, Dave Letterman's portrayal last week of potential Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a hot-blo...
May 12, 2009 / Leslie Savan