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 episode of The Breakdown, Chris Hayes asks Greenpeace's Kert Davies whether the entire practice of offshore oil dr...
Aug 27, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
Doing Green Jobs Right Doing Green Jobs Right
Activists in Boston shape energy policy through new community-labor alliances.
Aug 26, 2010 / Feature / Amy B. Dean
They Go or Obama Goes They Go or Obama Goes
Barack Obama and the Democrats he led to a stunning victory two years ago are going down hard in the face of an economic crisis that he did nothing to create but which he has fai...
Aug 25, 2010 / Robert Scheer
The Breakdown: What Is the True Cost of Gas? The Breakdown: What Is the True Cost of Gas?
Imagine that the cost you pay at the pump reflected not only the cost of gas without all of the government tax breaks and subsidies to the oil industry but also the political, heal...
Aug 20, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
Conversation: Kai Wright & Tony Romano on Public Housing Access Conversation: Kai Wright & Tony Romano on Public Housing Access
Thirty thousand people showed up outside of Atlanta in search of Section 8 housing vouchers last week; 62 vouchers were available. It's a powerful reminder that the recession is ...
Aug 19, 2010 / Video / The Nation on Grit TV
Socializing Debt in Sports, While Privatizing Profit Socializing Debt in Sports, While Privatizing Profit
It's not about the $6 hot dogs, the $9 beers or the tickets you have to get a loan for. It's about insane amount of tax dollars and corporate welfare that goes into American sports...
Aug 19, 2010 / Video / Press Room
AFL Takes On Foreclosures and Payday Lending AFL Takes On Foreclosures and Payday Lending
An interview with AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker on Big Banks and a new approach to prevent home foreclosure.
Aug 19, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Voters Can Shed Daylight on Corporate Spending Voters Can Shed Daylight on Corporate Spending
Goldman Sachs has agreed not to take advantage of Citizens United to spend corporate money in elections. Will other companies follow suit?
Aug 18, 2010 / Public Advocate Bill de Blasio
It’s About Main Street, Not the Mosque It’s About Main Street, Not the Mosque
The party with solutions to the country's economic woes will be the winners come November.
Aug 17, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Happy 75th Birthday, Social Security Happy 75th Birthday, Social Security
On the 75th anniversary of Social Security, those who would axe benefits are spreading myths designed to make you think there's a looming crisis. It's simply just not true.
Aug 13, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel