The Breakdown: Will Dodd’s Financial Reform Bill Protect Consumers? The Breakdown: Will Dodd’s Financial Reform Bill Protect Consumers?
This week on The Breakdown: The time for comprehensive financial reform and consumer protection has finally come. Christopher Hayes asks Demos's Heather McGhee, does Dodd's financi...
Mar 19, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
The Breakdown: How Does Incumbency Affect Elections? The Breakdown: How Does Incumbency Affect Elections?
If incumbents are running scared, what does that mean for the phenomenon of the incumbency effect?
Mar 12, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
The Breakdown: How Would Healthcare Reform Affect the Economy? The Breakdown: How Would Healthcare Reform Affect the Economy?
How will healthcare reform affect the economy? This week on The Breakdown, Christopher Hayes talks to Ezra Klein to correct the misperceptions.
Mar 5, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
The Breakdown: Will Torture Memo Authors Evade Justice? The Breakdown: Will Torture Memo Authors Evade Justice?
In 2002, the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, at the behest of the CIA and in conjunction with the White House, drafted a memo on acceptable standards of interrogat...
Feb 26, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
The Breakdown: How to Bust the Filibuster The Breakdown: How to Bust the Filibuster
Could the Senate start getting things done, if only legislators didn't have to face filibuster threats? This week on The Breakdown: the history of the filibuster, and how to get ri...
Feb 19, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
A Radio Tour of Tea Party Nation A Radio Tour of Tea Party Nation
Gary Younge hits the road to understand how local opposition to President Obama explains a growing national movement.
Feb 12, 2010 / Audio / Gary Younge
The Breakdown: Stimulus Wins and Losses The Breakdown: Stimulus Wins and Losses
Almost one year after the stimulus bill was signed into law, Christopher Hayes, with special guest Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute, assess its successes, failures and ...
Feb 12, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget
What effect will the reduction in troops in Iraq that Obama has promised have on defense spending?
Feb 5, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
Audiocast: A Conversation with Anand Gopal on America’s Secret Afghan Prisons Audiocast: A Conversation with Anand Gopal on America’s Secret Afghan Prisons
In this interview with Tom Dispatch, Anand Gopal talks about his how he learned about an unreported network of U.S. secret prisons in Afghanistan.
Jan 29, 2010 / Audio / Anand Gopal
The Breakdown: Spending Freeze Edition The Breakdown: Spending Freeze Edition
The Obama Administration has announced a plan to reduce the budget deficit through a three-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending. What are possible long-term effects?
Jan 29, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes