Sal Gentile

You’ve likely heard a lot about the one percent—in the first year of the recovery, they captured 93% of the income gains—but the story of America’s corporations is even more troubling. Read More

NYC Mayoral candidate Sal Albanese said the best way to improve public transportation is to make like Michael Bloomberg and take it to the people. Read More

City lawmakers reached a tentative deal on Tuesday to pass a bill that would establish an inspector general to oversee the NYPD. Read More

"We would support the idea of a ban, but you have to do it well," said NAACP President Ben Jealous. "It was ill-conceived from the beginning, and ill-executed." Read More

A new working paper published this week by two political science graduate students may help explain why Americans' faith in Congress has dipped to historic lows: Politicians tend to vastly overestimate just how conservative their constituents really are. Read More

Former New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, a Republican who voted to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act in 2006, told Up w/ Chris Hayes in an e-mail this week that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act should be considered a "legislative matter." Read More

"When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was, 'You’re not even to acknowledge the drone program. You’re not even to discuss that it exists," said former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Up w/ Chris Hayes Sunday. Read More

On Up w/ Chris Hayes Saturday, Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson became one of the first Republican lawmakers to react publicly to President Obama's proposal, calling it a "great idea" but "we’ve got to find the money to do it.” Read More

There was a muddle of new economic news this week that delivered a mixed message on the state of our lagging economic recovery. Read More

It’s in the details that real immigration reform will either live or die. Read More

Production emissions from Canadian oil sands are a stunning 134% greater than production emissions from domestic crude oil. So even “drill, baby, drill” is more climate-friendly than the oil we would get from the Keystone pipeline. Read More

On Sunday's Up w/ Chris Hayes, we'll discuss diversity in President Obama's Cabinet. Then, how Obama nominated John Brennan to head the CIA. And also, the crackdown on the use of performance enhancing drugs in both baseball and cycling. Read More

On Saturday's Up w/ Chris Hayes, we'll discuss a novel proposal of a trillion-dollar coin. Plus: We'll the contested legacy of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. A discussion with four fiction writers on American politics and the role political rhetoric. Read More

What was perhaps most revealing about the final deal reached by President Obama and congressional Republicans to avert the so-called "fiscal cliff" is what it told us about who Washington actually serves, and what lawmakers think "middle class" actually means. Read More

On Sunday's Up w/ Chris Hayes, we'll have the latest on the last-minute "fiscal curb" negotiations in Washington. Plus: we'll discuss House Speaker John Boehner's political troubles, and we'll examine the demise of the Tea Party. Read More

On Saturday's Up w/ Chris Hayes, we'll discuss what the next phase of the economy should look like after the recovery is over. We'll debate the value of growth. And we'll examine the major battles in Silicon Valley over intellectual property. Read More

A revolution has transformed our energy economy through something called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." But given the preliminary evidence that fracking can sicken livestock, pollute the environment and even cause seismic activity, many activists are left to ask: Is it worth it? Read More

If President Obama wants to get anything done in his second term, Democrats in the Senate will have to overcome one major obstacle: the filibuster. Read More

Obama took a considerably different approach to the question of what motivates terrorist activity, and how U.S. foreign policy should respond to acts of political violence. Read More

On Sunday's Up w/ Chris Hayes, we'll discuss the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, and ask what role the United States can and should play in… Read More