Capitol Word Capitol Word
Sunlight Foundation unveiled a new microsite today that isolates the single word most mentioned during the previous day's congressional session. Interesting note: you have to go...
Jun 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Meet The New Boss Meet The New Boss
Today comes word from the Obama camp that they've formed a Senior Working Group on National Security. Reminiscent of the recent appointment of Jason Furman to a top economic polic...
Jun 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Latest Obama Rumor Latest Obama Rumor
Via Slate:
Barack Obama wears a FLAG PIN at all times. Even in the shower. ...There's only one artist on Barack Obama's iPod: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.
Scary stuff.
Jun 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Get Me Rewrite: NYT Spins for McCain Get Me Rewrite: NYT Spins for McCain
Recalling the worst of Judith Miller's reporting on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the New York Time ran one of its "fair and balanced" stories on the presidential race Mond...
Jun 18, 2008 / John Nichols
When Puppets Attack When Puppets Attack
Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's foreign minister, used his conversation with Barack Obama this week to give the Democratic candidate a geography lesson. "Iraq is not an island," lectured t...
Jun 18, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Likable Enough for VP Likable Enough for VP
If Obama's looking for a right-of-center running-mate, Hillary's the best option out there.
Jun 18, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer
Subhed Of the Day Subhed Of the Day
Barack Obama is a magnet for nuts. I suppose this is true of any prominent political figure, and boy was it true of Bill and Hillary Clinton. But we've already seen a whole bunch ...
Jun 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Donahue’s War Donahue’s War
Phil Donahue talks about his experience as a talk show host on MSNBC during the buildup to the invasion of Iraq.
Jun 18, 2008 / Rebecca MacNeice
A Conversation With Richard Falk A Conversation With Richard Falk
One of the world's most prominent critics of US interventionism talks about his new post as UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories.
Jun 17, 2008 / Feature / Linda Mamoun
Of Weddings and Wedges Of Weddings and Wedges
In times like these, when many people's rights and benefits are shrinking, it's easy for the Right to set us at each other's throats. And if the past is any guide, that's just what...
Jun 17, 2008 / Laura Flanders