It’s a rare day when we mint two new #pastriots. Today was a great day as Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy nonchalantly became our second #pastriot.
It’s been months of prodding and cajoling, some on-air ribbing about some sort of “jogging date” Melissa challenged me to and has not yet called me on, but Melissa finally became a #pastriot.
On Mar 2, Tom Colicchio will be a guest on Up w/ Chris Hayes and promised to give me a makeover. I am at the same time thrilled and terrified but I trust Tom will do a fantastic job.
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Nails it!
And the future of television
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As a digital junkie who tweets while watching UP with Chris Hayes every weekend, you probably saw the @Oreo tweet as it happened in real time during the Super Bowl.
Religion — any religion — is an ideological tool to achieve political power. In the Western World, we tend to believe that our governments should not be theocracies, but this is a fairly new concept. The longer arc of history indicates there really is no separation of Church and State as the…