Stories by Christopher Hayes
Christopher Hayes is The Nation's Washington editor.
Unlike plans offered by both Democratic presidential candidates, the congressional challengers' plan opposes any residual forces.
Posted on Apr 2, 2008
The shadowy group that smeared John Kerry in 2004 is ready to do its dirty work again.
Posted on Jan 4, 2008
Is the NAFTA Superhighway the first stage of a long, silent coup to supplant the sovereign United States with a North American Union?
Posted on Dec 26, 2007
Democrats may not have the will to close the gaping loophole in the tax code that allows hedge fund billionaires to get off for a song.
Posted on Nov 14, 2007
The New Republic magazine makes a play for the progressive blogosphere, but it was
In These Times that earlier got the story right.
Posted on May 4, 2007
David Axelrod, Barack Obama's closest political adviser, is applying the lessons he learned from Chicago's ugly racialized politics.
Posted on Feb 5, 2007
The biggest threat posed by the 9/11 Truth Movement is the danger that it will discredit the healthy skepticism Americans increasingly show toward their leaders.
Posted on Dec 11, 2006
Even though anti-immigration activists like to trot out population figures to support closing the borders, we should really be concerned with the number of cars -- not people -- in the U.S.
Posted on Oct 24, 2006
Why is the Pentagon keeping prisoners' mail from their lawyers?
Posted on Jun 20, 2006
Grassroots groups that mobilized for the 2004 elections may have failed to defeat Bush, but they're still making waves across the country.
Posted on Dec 15, 2005
An unabashed progressive takes aim at a Senate seat.
Posted on Dec 2, 2005
Wal-Mart's anti-union crusade is a prime example of how corporations routinely break labor laws with few repercussions.
Posted on Nov 6, 2005
Rick Perlstein, author of 'The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo,' explains how the Democratic Party can pull together by simply never backing down.
Posted on Jul 26, 2005
'Coingate,' a scandal at once farcical and outrageous, touches nearly every prominent elected Republican in Ohio and could finally pave the way for a Democratic resurgence in the state.
Posted on Jun 29, 2005
Illinois is a bizarro-world inverse of the rest of the country, where Democrats dominate all branches of government, set the debate and drive policy, while Republicans grasp for a coherent message. Are there any lessons to be gleaned for Democrats elsewhere?
Posted on Apr 23, 2005
In order to grow, progressives need to learn from evangelical movements: Systematically expand the universe of access points to their worldview and actively recruit people into the fold.
Posted on Mar 25, 2005
The debate taking place over the future of the labor movement could determine its very survival.
Posted on Jan 25, 2005
Prisoners pay the highest prices anywhere in the country to make life-saving phone calls. Now prison advocates are fighting to end special contracts and lower the cost of a call.
Posted on May 17, 2004
The challenge for progressives outraged at the Bush administration is to convert depth of sentiment into breadth of influence, and a number of groups are harnessing the energy of 20- and 30-somethings.
Posted on Apr 20, 2004
The provisional Iraqi constitution is a progressive's dream. And there is a good chance it may remain just that.
Posted on Mar 30, 2004
The Iraqi reconstruction contracts are structured exactly like the Bush tax cuts -- they favor only the powerful.
Posted on Mar 15, 2004
Once considered a blow to the Democratic piggy bank, McCain-Feingold has inspired a massive new wave of fundraising alliances and get-out-the-vote campaigns.
Posted on Jan 27, 2004
As SEIU casts its organizing eye on homecare workers, wages slowly and steadily rise.
Posted on Jan 25, 2004
