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The Twilight of the Elites

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
March 22, 2010

In the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society — whether it's General Motors, Congress, Wall Street, Major League Baseball, the Catholic Church or the mainstream media — has revealed itself to be corrupt, incompetent or both. And at the root of these failures are the people who run these institutions, the bright and industrious minds who occupy the commanding heights of our meritocratic order. In exchange for their power, status and remuneration, they are supposed to make sure everything operates smoothly.

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It's Time for Wall Street to Pay | Salon

March 17, 2010

Writing in Time, Christopher Hayes puts it succinctly: "Nearly every pillar institution in American society -- whether it's General Motors, Congress, ...

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CPR for the Public Option

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
February 25, 2010

I'll admit that like almost everyone in this town, I thought the public option was dead. In late October when Joe Lieberman announced he'd filibuster any bill that included it, I figured it was time to conduct an autopsy (cause of death: blows administered in quick succession by an obstinate insurance industry and "centrist" senators), commence the mourning process and move on.

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A Cold Day in Washington

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
January 28, 2010

On the eve of the State of the Union address, word leaked that President Obama was going to call for a multiyear freeze on "nonsecurity discretionary spending," in an apparent attempt to mollify independent voters anxious about the deficit. The reaction in the progressive blogosphere was fast and furious. "Barack Herbert Hoover Obama?" asked Brad DeLong on his blog (Grasping Reality With Opposable Thumbs), while Paul Krugman wrote a blog post titled "Obama Liquidates Himself" and others blasted the president as "lame," an "idiot," a leader with a "self-inflicted lobotomy."

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System Failure

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
January 14, 2010
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Did Republicans Rally the Stock Market? | CNBC

November 5, 2009

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What Ails the Senate

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
November 4, 2009

In 1994, after Democrats lost control of the Senate, Senator Joe Lieberman called a press conference with his colleague Tom Harkin to announce their plan to reform the filibuster. "[People] are fed up--frustrated and fed up and angry about the way in which our government does not work," Lieberman said.

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ACORN and Accountability

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
October 12, 2009

With the notable exception of handing over $700 billion to Wall Street last year, the United States Congress is not known for quick, decisive action. But recently, in a resounding bipartisan vote, members of both houses voted to deny federal dollars to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Over the past fifteen years, ACORN and its affiliates have received on average about $3.5 million a year from the government, or approximately one-millionth of this year's budget.

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Meet the Hazzards

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
  • with Nomi Prins
October 12, 2009

As we mark the end of the first year of the financial bailout, the public seems to regard the government's actions with a toxic combination of rage and confusion. People are pissed off but too bewildered to know what to do with that anger. The confusion isn't an accident. The government hasn't exactly been forthcoming about how it's made buckets of money available to the banking sector.

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Tuesdays With Rahm

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
October 7, 2009

If you've spent time in progressive circles these last nine months, you've certainly heard the "make me do it" story. The details bounce around, even the name of the president who allegedly said it (sometimes it's Johnson, most often it's Roosevelt), but the basic tale is this: the president is meeting in the Oval Office with an activist, a union president or a civil rights leader pushing a progressive cause. At the end of the meeting the president says, "OK, you've convinced me.

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Fed Could Ease Up on Easy Money | Marketplace

September 22, 2009

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Baucus Bill | Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC)

September 21, 2009

Does The Health Care Bill Have A Chance? | NPR

September 17, 2009

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Obama Pushes Healthcare Reform Plan | Aljazeera.net

September 9, 2009
Christopher Hayes, the Washington editor of the progressive magazine, The Nation, agreed that Obama had been "very clear" in laying out the basic structure ...

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Overcoming America's Debt Overhang: The Case for Inflation

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
September 9, 2009

It might be called the "World's Scariest Chart." It is a snapshot of the fragile foundations of the American economy and the epic boulder it now finds itself trapped beneath. The graph shows total debt outstanding in the United States, both secured and unsecured, as a percentage of GDP. In 1981 it was a manageable 168 percent, in 1996 253 percent, and by the first quarter of 2009 with the collapse of the housing and credit bubbles it had reached a staggering 373 percent of GDP.

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The Secret Government

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
August 26, 2009

It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of "fair play" must be reconsidered.

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Is Bipartisanship Bad for Healthcare? | Countdown with Keith Olbermann

August 6, 2009
Christopher Hayes: With healthcare reform, the White House has transformed an intimate issue into a technical argument about long-term actuarial projections ...

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Are Depressions Necessary?

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
July 10, 2009

Economists, particularly those of the ascendant Chicago school of free market enthusiasts, were in a triumphant mood at the beginning of this decade. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in 2003, Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas went so far as to say that macro-economics -- with its focus on the stable maintenance of national economies -- could safely be retired.

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National Review vs The Nation: Is Health Care a Right? | The Nation

June 19, 2009

In part one of a three-part series, The Nation's Washington editor Chris Hayes debates Reihan Salam of The National Review over healthcare. Is it a universal human right, as Hayes says, or a responsibility, as Salam says? What's the best system for implementing healthcare in the United States? Will it save money or cost money? Watch and decide. Link to video

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The Compensation Hustle

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
June 17, 2009

Mid-June saw Executive Compensation Week here in Washington. On June 11 the House Financial Services Committee convened a hearing on Compensation Structure and Systemic Risk, just one day after the administration announced that attorney Ken Feinberg (lately of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund) would serve as the "Special Master" overseeing executive compensation at firms receiving TARP funds. His vaguely kinky title notwithstanding, early reports suggest Feinberg won't be imposing much discipline on naughty execs.

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Obama: Rebuild Auto Industry, Repair Muslim Relations | NPR

June 5, 2009
Glen Ford, of the Black Agenda Report, and Christopher Hayes, of The Nation magazine discuss an active week for president Obama, which included an important message to Muslims around the world.
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Banker's Paradise

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
May 20, 2009

No matter how discredited and despised Wall Street executives may be across the country, their clout remains unrivaled on Capitol Hill. Judging from how much traction the American Bankers Association gets with lawmakers, you'd think it was an organization devoted to the interests of puppies and adorable children.

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Webb's Prison Crusade

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
April 15, 2009

After more than a year of hearings before the Joint Economic Committee, in March Virginia Senator Jim Webb introduced the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009. The legislation would create a blue-ribbon panel with the mandate to make recommendations for wholesale reform of criminal justice policy.

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Obama's Ambition Stirs Critics from The Left | NPR

March 16, 2009
President Barack Obama continues to enjoy high approval ratings. But as he unveils plans to fix the nation's problems, both liberal and conservative critics are boldly voicing their concerns. Critics from the left -- Glen Ford, of the Black Agenda Report, and Christopher Hayes, of The Nation magazine -- discuss the issues behind their loyal opposition.
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Green Power Struggle

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  • Christopher Hayes,
  • New America Foundation
March 4, 2009

In 1979 Gus Speth, a Yale-trained lawyer and co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), became chair of President Carter's Council on Environmental Quality. He was 37. Approached by two scientists concerned about the rise in the earth's temperatures as a result of increased carbon emissions, Speth commissioned a study. "It created quite a stir," he says. "It got a lot of media attention.... In 1981 we knew enough that I'm quoted in the New York Times saying we ought to cap greenhouse [gases] at no more than 50 percent above the preindustrial level."

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