The Breakdown: What Is the True Cost of BP’s Oil Spill? The Breakdown: What Is the True Cost of BP’s Oil Spill?
As images of oil-drenched coastlines and stories of devastated industries and families flood the airwaves, how can we begin to reckon the real magnitude of the damage?
May 28, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
The Junkies of Wall Street The Junkies of Wall Street
Derivatives regulation, a consumer financial protection agency, limits on speculative trading—will they make it into the final financial reform bill?
May 27, 2010 / Editorial / The Editors
Ms. Solis Goes to Immokalee Ms. Solis Goes to Immokalee
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is committed to enforcing laws against wage theft. But Florida agricultural workers say new, stronger laws are still needed.
May 27, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Blame Clinton, Not Paul Blame Clinton, Not Paul
Rand Paul is a distraction. The real question is: why did Clinton leave responsibility for the poor to the states while letting the federal government maintain a lavish welfare sys...
May 26, 2010 / Robert Scheer
BPing the Arctic BPing the Arctic
Will the Obama administration allow Shell Oil to do to Arctic waters what BP did to the Gulf?
May 25, 2010 / Subhankar Banerjee
A Mother’s Catch-22 A Mother’s Catch-22
Low-income mothers can't work without child care and can't afford child care without working. As local governments refuse funding for child-care subsidies, moms are ending up...
May 25, 2010 / William Greider
BP Oil Spill: A Big Bummer BP Oil Spill: A Big Bummer
Christopher Hayes says that Rand Paul’s defense of BP reflects the common mentality of politicians and corporations who have continually displayed a lack of accountability ...
May 25, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room
BP Oil Spill: A Big Bummer BP Oil Spill: A Big Bummer
Christopher Hayes says that Rand Paul’s defense of BP reflects the common mentality of politicians and corporations who have continually displayed a lack of accountability ov...
Senate’s Financial Reform Is a Win, But Not Big Enough Senate’s Financial Reform Is a Win, But Not Big Enough
The Senate passed a financial reform package that includes a handful of important reforms, but it won't fundamentally change the relationship between banks and society. The real ...
May 25, 2010 / Zach Carter
Big Oil’s Free Market Friends Big Oil’s Free Market Friends
Guest-hosting The Rachel Maddow Show, Nation DC Editor Christopher Hayes asks why the libertarian Rand Paul is so determined to defend BP's honor.
May 24, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room