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Republicans Can’t Figure Out What They Stand For Republicans Can’t Figure Out What They Stand For

Nation Washington Editor Christopher Hayes tells Rachel Maddow that jumping on the GOP's conflicted messages about BP's liability for the Gulf spill is a way for Democrats to &qu...

Jun 22, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room

The Week Ahead: Richard Kim on the GOP’s Real ‘Shakedown’ The Week Ahead: Richard Kim on the GOP’s Real ‘Shakedown’

Republicans say they're defending small government and private property, but the real winner is corporate America. Richard Kim talks to Laura Flanders about the Republican Pa...

Jun 22, 2010 / Nation in the News / The Nation on Grit TV

The Week Ahead: Richard Kim on the GOP’s Real “Shakedown” The Week Ahead: Richard Kim on the GOP’s Real “Shakedown”

Republicans say again and again that they're defending small government and private property, but when the hot air settles the real winner is corporate America, too often at th...

Jun 22, 2010 / Video / The Nation on Grit TV

The Breakdown: Is Offshore Drilling Ever Safe?

The Breakdown: Is Offshore Drilling Ever Safe? The Breakdown: Is Offshore Drilling Ever Safe?

Is BP unique in its ability to create catastrophe? On this week's The Breakdown, Chris Hayes asks Greenpeace's Kert Davies whether the entire practice of offshore oil drilling is i...

Jun 18, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes

The Power of the Presidency The Power of the Presidency

Since the president had no legal basis to demand the set aside, on what basis did he extract $20 billion from BP?

Jun 17, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders

We Need to Build a Cleaner Economy, So Let’s Do It We Need to Build a Cleaner Economy, So Let’s Do It

On Morning Joe, Katrina vanden Heuvel defends President Obama by saying that his White House speech Tuesday night was humane, but "we need deeds."

Jun 17, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room

Video: BP’s Oil Crisis Is Obama’s Leadership Crisis

Video: BP’s Oil Crisis Is Obama’s Leadership Crisis Video: BP’s Oil Crisis Is Obama’s Leadership Crisis

On The Ed Show, Katrina vanden Heuvel says that Obama needs to realize that BP's mess is "more than an oil spill, more than an oil crisis. It's also an economic crisis."...

Jun 16, 2010 / Press Room

BP’s Oil Crisis is Obama’s Leadership Crisis BP’s Oil Crisis is Obama’s Leadership Crisis

On The Ed Show, Katrina vanden Heuvel says that Obama needs to realize that BP's mess is "more than an oil spill, more than an oil crisis. It's also an economic crisis."

Jun 16, 2010 / Video / The Ed Show

Rape and Spillage Rape and Spillage

What's with the president's war analogy on the oil spill? And why be surprised that the oil conglomerates are also in bed with their pretend Washington regulators?

Jun 16, 2010 / Robert Scheer

Human Trafficking: Not Someone Else’s Problem

Human Trafficking: Not Someone Else’s Problem Human Trafficking: Not Someone Else’s Problem

For the first time, the US has been included in its own report on countries that are sites of human trafficking.

Jun 15, 2010 / The Notion / Greg Kaufmann

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