McCain’s Hamas Hypocrisy McCain’s Hamas Hypocrisy
The Nation's Chris Hayes takes on McCain's evolving position on Hamas. Turns out he was for talking to Hamas before he was against it.
May 19, 2008 / Press Room
Wheels Within Wheels Wheels Within Wheels
This week in Citizen Kang, a gun is brandished, feelings get hurt, clandestine meetings are suggested, and the watcher is watched.
May 19, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Nixonland, Then and Now Nixonland, Then and Now
"Nixonland" – that's Rick Perlstein's term for the political world where candidates win power by mobilizing people's resentments, anxieties and anger, where politic...
May 18, 2008 / Jon Wiener
Hoping, Praying for the Liberal Lion — UPDATED Hoping, Praying for the Liberal Lion — UPDATED
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain are agreed on one thing. They are all worried about Ted Kennedy. While cynicism is always appropriate when dealing with politicians...
May 17, 2008 / John Nichols
Friday Capitol Letter Friday Capitol Letter
In the House....This week, members furiously tangled over the war supplemental spending bill, which would fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through at least March 2009. Whil...
May 16, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Dollar-Driven Recruiting Dollar-Driven Recruiting
The Department of Defense has dramatically increased its military recruitment budget, but where will the troops come from?
May 16, 2008 / Feature / Allen McDuffee
Farm Bill Follies Farm Bill Follies
Over on Swampland, Joe Klein takes justified digs at Obama and Clinton for their support of the $300-billion farm bill, which both Bush and McCain have opposed. There's a whole li...
May 16, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Why War, Inc. Works Why War, Inc. Works
John Cusack's War, Inc. takes on a seldom-discussed aspect of the occupation: the corporate dominance of the US war machine.
May 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Scahill
No European Star Wars No European Star Wars
Last March, I blogged about the Bush Administration's plan to deploy a proposed a missile defense system in both the Czech Republic and Poland despite the reluctance of the host c...
May 16, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Medicaid vs. the War Medicaid vs. the War
This week, buried under the current Congressional tussle over war spending, a fight over the future of Medicaid has quietly been percolating. Last fall, the Bush administration at...
May 16, 2008 / Chris Hayes