Why Is the Financial Crisis So Absent From the Campaign? Why Is the Financial Crisis So Absent From the Campaign?
That's what Paul Krugman rightly wants to know. For months I've been struck by the jarring disconnect between the finance blogs I read, where people are basically screaming at the...
Mar 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Things That Go Bump in the Night Things That Go Bump in the Night
This week's episode of Citizen Kang: Congresswoman Kang has some lascivious ideas about a certain cop, her shot-at chief of staff returns to town and all manner of deviltry is abou...
Mar 24, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Bush Whacks the Wall of Separation Bush Whacks the Wall of Separation
Thomas Jefferson observed in his January 1, 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists that America was not a church state. As such, he explained, it was the president's duty to refrai...
Mar 22, 2008 / John Nichols
No Star Wars in Europe No Star Wars in Europe
The US national missile defense system is a complex project which involves the production of new weapons, and the installation of US military bases in different parts of the plane...
Mar 21, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Change Congress Change Congress
Copyright guru Lawrence Lessig launches his new crusade.
Mar 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Whose Crisis of Confidence Whose Crisis of Confidence
Elizabeth Spiers argues the Fed had to bail out Bear Stearns, because "the psychological repercussions of a Bear bankruptcy would have been even more devastating than the financi...
Mar 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Every Four Years Every Four Years
As far as I can tell there are two main questions that need to be answered about the last eight years of American politics: 1) How was it that all of the institutions (the mainst...
Mar 21, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Just Looking Just Looking
Mapping the difficulty, danger and beauty in the art of Nicholas Poussin.
Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Extreme Inequality Extreme Inequality
A look at the gap between rich and poor via two books: David Cay Johnson's Free Lunch and Michael J. Thompson's The Politics of Inequality.
Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook