The Breakdown: An Unconstitutional Mandate? The Breakdown: An Unconstitutional Mandate?
A federal court in Virginia ruled Monday that an aspect of Obama's healthcare reform law is unconstitutional. In this previously posted episode of The Breakdown, Christopher Hayes...
Dec 14, 2010 / Chris Hayes
When Animated Bears Explain: Can Viral Video Save the Economy? When Animated Bears Explain: Can Viral Video Save the Economy?
Cartoon policy videos have not yet supplanted op-eds, but a recent breakout hit on the Federal Reserve is the kind of political content that could be highly influential in a medias...
Dec 13, 2010 / Ari Melber
What Would I.F. Stone Think of WikiLeaks? What Would I.F. Stone Think of WikiLeaks?
America's greatest investigative journalist believed in letting the truth be told, even over the protest of state officials. But what would he make of WikiLeaks's secret-telling?
Dec 13, 2010 / D.D. Guttenplan
Fox News Won’t Admit That Republicans Voted Against 9/11 Rescue Workers Fox News Won’t Admit That Republicans Voted Against 9/11 Rescue Workers
When they do something so vile that even Fox commentators can’t stomach it, Republicans become They-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Dec 13, 2010 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Domesticated Deities Domesticated Deities
Celebrity messiahs have come to redeem our country, not govern it (and don’t forget Marilyn and Elvis and Jackie O and Diana and Oprah and Brangelina and David Hasselhoff).
Dec 13, 2010 / Lewis Lapham
Democrats Attack WikiLeaks or Remain Silent, but Republican Ron Paul Says: ‘State Secrecy Is Anathema to a Free Society’ Democrats Attack WikiLeaks or Remain Silent, but Republican Ron Paul Says: ‘State Secrecy Is Anathema to a Free Society’
Republican Congressman says: "We should view the Wikileaks controversy in the larger context of American foreign policy. Rather than worry about the disclosure of embarrassing...
Dec 11, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols
Update From the UK Student Protests: Police Beat Protesters Trapped in Parliament Square Kettle Update From the UK Student Protests: Police Beat Protesters Trapped in Parliament Square Kettle
The supposed heart of British democracy has become a searing wound of rage and retribution.
Dec 10, 2010 / StudentNation / Laurie Penny
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
Readers respond to Obama's controversial tax cut compromise.
Dec 10, 2010 / Blog / Eric Alterman
The Vienna Declaration The Vienna Declaration
Drug users deserve the chance to prevent HIV, too.
Dec 10, 2010 / Judith Auerbach
Jury Convicts Three, Acquits Two in Post-Katrina Police Shooting Jury Convicts Three, Acquits Two in Post-Katrina Police Shooting
A federal jury found three New Orleans police officers guilty in the shooting, burning and cover-up of the death of Henry Glover. Two officers were acquitted.
Dec 10, 2010 / A.C. Thompson