Another $102 Billion Another $102 Billion
Do you think the US should spend another $102 billion on the Iraq War? Well, later this month, Congress will consider President Bush's demand for just this amount to continue fu...
Apr 5, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Bernie Sanders Does Small “d” Democracy Bernie Sanders Does Small “d” Democracy
Last Monday, well over 300 Vermonters packed City Hall in downtown Burlington. It was standing room only with every seat on the floor and in the balcony occupied. The occasion w...
Apr 5, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Friday Capitol Letter Friday Capitol Letter
In the House...This week, a global AIDS bill authorizing $50 billion over five years secured passage by a 308-116 vote. The White House endorsed the legislation (somewhat tepidly,...
Apr 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Get Out the Pitchforks Get Out the Pitchforks
If Wall Street thinks the public is angry at it now, wait till stories like this start getting wider play.
Apr 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
King, Kennedy and April 4, 1968 King, Kennedy and April 4, 1968
Forty years ago today, on the Democratic presidential campaign trail in Indiana, one of the most remarkable moments in American political history occurred. New York Senator Rober...
Apr 4, 2008 / John Nichols
Forty Years Ago Today Forty Years Ago Today
You can listen to NPR's morning interview with Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles-- who was listening to King's speech just a few feet away--here.
Apr 3, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Accountability for KBR? Accountability for KBR?
Just three months after Jamie Leigh Jones' horrific account of Halliburton gang-rape was heard in Congress, Karen Houppert talks to Lisa Smith, a KBR contractor who alleges she wa...
Apr 3, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Another KBR Rape Case Another KBR Rape Case
In the wake of Jamie Leigh Jones's highly publicized charges, a woman comes forward with new allegations of a brutal sexual assault and cover-up at a KBR camp in Iraq.
Apr 3, 2008 / Feature / Karen Houppert
A Neo-Deal A Neo-Deal
The new positive rights of the twenty-first century.
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / William Alexander Organek
A Modern Government A Modern Government
We must embrace the universal benefits of a government dedicated to preparing citizens for acompetitive and unpredictable world.
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Max Rose