Splitting the Difference on Mandates Splitting the Difference on Mandates
Jacob Hacker wades into the great mandate debate this morning in the LA Times. He argues that the sturm und drang over mandates is overblown: Still, I do not believe that the ind...
Feb 26, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Tom Stoppard’s Schlock ‘n’ Roll Tom Stoppard’s Schlock ‘n’ Roll
When will we stop living in the '60s?
Feb 26, 2008 / Books & the Arts / J. Gabriel Boylan
Racist Drug Law Losing Steam Racist Drug Law Losing Steam
Bipartisan support for reforming the two-decade-old federal sentencing structure that treats crack cocaine offenses one hundred times more severely than crimes involving powder co...
Feb 26, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Now Can We Talk About 9/11 Now Can We Talk About 9/11
While over its tenure, the Bush administration has increased baseline military spending by 30% to fight a global "war on terror," this month with the release of the President's la...
Feb 26, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The FCC Debates the Internet’s Future The FCC Debates the Internet’s Future
It seemed an apt coincidence of timing that as legal scholars and industry representatives debated the future of the internet at yesterday's FCC hearing at Harvard Law School, her...
Feb 26, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Freak Show The Freak Show
Time magazine political analyst Mark Halperin (formerly of ABC and The Note) has a post up dispensing free advice to John McCain on how he can attack Obama. The pearls of wisdom d...
Feb 26, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Haynes Resigns Haynes Resigns
Last week, we broke a story about Pentagon general counsel William Haynes, the man charged with impartially overseeing the tribunals at Guantanamo telling a subordinate that "[the...
Feb 26, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Internet Populist Lessig: Visionary, Realist, But Not Running Internet Populist Lessig: Visionary, Realist, But Not Running
Of course it would have been great if Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig had run for an open San Francisco Bay-area congressional seat on the reform platform he proposed. Les...
Feb 26, 2008 / John Nichols
Republicans for Obama Republicans for Obama
Reagan Democrats played a key role in electing a new present in 1980; now Obama Republicans seem to be emerging as a significant political force - at least in the primaries. In th...
Feb 25, 2008 / Jon Wiener
Independence Day Independence Day
Traveling from Albania's capital city Tirana to the Kosovo border reveals scenes ranging from festive to frightening as Kosova declares its independence.
Feb 25, 2008 / Feature / Gazmend Kapllani