Ari Berman | The Nation
Ari Berman
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Ari Berman
Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute. He has written extensively about American politics, foreign policy and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have also appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and The Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and political commentator on MSNBC, C-Span and NPR. His first book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, was published in October 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux—for whom he is now working on a history of voting rights. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and political science.
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The slumping economy has made GOP smear tactics seem petty and shrill--but they're looking forward to their next shot.
He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain's political advisors have advanced Putin's imperial ambitions.
What are we to make of a straight-talking maverick who spends his 70th birthday on the yacht of an A-list con man?
Readers weigh in on our inequality issue; Ari Berman responds to his critics.
The Republican candidate's maverick image obscures his cozy relationship with lobbyists.
Here's a look at the roots of the campaign that seeks to discredit Barack Obama by linking him to Bill Ayers and the Chicago charity to which they each had ties.
Democratic activism and Obama's campaign have turned Doylestown, Pennsylvania, from solid red to purple--maybe even blue.
False claims about Obama intended to stoke racial and religious fear are trickling from the far right to the mainstream media.
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The DNC chair has energized aging, ailing or previously nonexistent state parties.
Unelected insiders may well hold the key to the 2008 Democratic nomination. How did things become so undemocratic?
