Chris Hayes

Are we gonna spend the next few months beating-up-on the IRS and the Bush-appointed former head of the IRS who was in charge when all of this happened? Or are we also gonna take the opportunity to try to figure out what exactly we should be doing to sort out this completely intractable mess in tax law created by Citizens United? Read More

We learned that we are about to pass 400 parts per million in the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. That may not mean anything to you it certainly didn't mean anything to me. So here's the context for it. Read More

They have the right to go to work every day, earn a fair, livable wage, and come home every night-- safe, to the people they love. It's the most basic demand, but it doesn't just happen by magic. It happens through struggle. Read More

"Perhaps the only place where the center is still defined as so-far to the right that we are still living in the 2010 Tea Party world is austerity." Read More

The nation's big banks are barely compensating homeowners for their widespread and systemic error, malfeasance and reckless lack of care. Read More

Today, decades after Thatcher left office, if you compare inequality across industrialized nations, England and the U.S. are at the top, also sharing the least amount of social mobility. This is the society that Thatcher and Reagan gave us. Read More

Cancer patients, children, veterans, the hungry--they haven't been exempted even temporarily from the effects of austerity. Read More

America has fallen into accepting complacency. But the hunger strikers at Guantanamo have reminded us that this cannot go on. Read More

Players like Louisville's Kevin Ware make millions of dollars for their schools. But they're not employees, so they don't qualify for workers' comp if they get injured on the court or the field. Read More

Chris shared some fond memories from the 18-months the show has been on the air and passed the torch to Steve Kornacki. Read More

On Tuesday night, after word broke that Venezuela's President of 14 years Hugo Chavez had died, it didn't take long for the thunderous and hyperbolic… Read More

Achieving racial equality has, throughout the country’s long, painful, violent racial history, required constant application of laws, metrics and approaches that are acutely race-conscious. The Roberts court's conservative justices have no patience for any of this. Read More

Yes, the legendary Conservative Political Action Conference has invited yours truly to participate at its 40th annual conference this March. How my decision to participate hinges on the gay conservative group, GOProud. Read More

After several years of painful, bewildering, infuriating exile, climate policy is back on the agenda. Thank god. Read More

What, people ask, is the alternative to small war, if not big war? And the answer no one ever seems to even consider is: no war. Read More

Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel was an omnidirectionally embarrassing debacle for everyone involved. Read More

President Obama is also the most powerful person in the world who says he's committed to averting climate disaster, and with acknowledging that comes some responsibilities. Read More

You should know that we're going to miss you, Aaron. We're going to miss your brilliant mind, your righteous heart and your sensitive soul. Read More

The trillion dollar coin: it's a kind of magic. But is it good magic... or bad magic? Read More

Lesson #1: The so-called fiscal cliff was not a cliff. Read More