Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign
Clinton and Obama each have nuanced plans to ban private security firms from Iraq. The difference is how they're spinning them.
Mar 18, 2008 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Five Years in Iraq: Best of the Media Five Years in Iraq: Best of the Media
Just imagine: You run a flagship national newspaper, the New York Times. It's the fifth anniversary of President Bush's catastrophic invasion of Iraq. Your own record of reporta...
Mar 18, 2008 / TomDispatch
Blackwater, the Campaign Issue Blackwater, the Campaign Issue
In this interview with RealNews, Nation Correspondent Jeremy Scahill explains how Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama differ on the use of private security contractors in Iraq.
Mar 18, 2008 / Jeremy Scahill and The Nation Video
Crisis is Opportunity Crisis is Opportunity
Maybe it's been my choice of panels, but thus far, the events I've attended here at Take Back America have felt curiously subdued. Under the pall of the plummeting economy and the...
Mar 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Hamilton Explains Hamilton Explains
How Alexander Hamilton "fell into as difficult a position as a public man has ever known, and extricated himself by means which show how much the conventional standards of morals h...
Mar 18, 2008 / The Editors
And a Half-Brother in China, Too And a Half-Brother in China, Too
To follow up on Chris's excellent commentary on the Obama-Wright media firestorm from this afternoon, here's the tally on how McCain has comparatively fared with the press (via FA...
Mar 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Notes on a Scandal Notes on a Scandal
The Spitzer affair's obvious rationality continues to elude the therapists, sexperts and pundits for whom shame is the game.
Mar 17, 2008 / JoAnn Wypijewski
Obama, Politics and the Pulpit Obama, Politics and the Pulpit
The uproar over intemperate remarks by Obama's former pastor reveals all that's repellant in our national discourse over race, religion and politics.
Mar 17, 2008 / Feature / Chris Hayes
A Winter Soldier Speaks A Winter Soldier Speaks
Camilo Mejia, speaking just now at TBA. (Quickly transcribed as he was speaking, so it may be imperfect): When you go half way around the world to brutalize a country, the pain...
Mar 17, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Experts Speak on Iraq The Experts Speak on Iraq
To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.
Mar 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf