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.
No matter who injected the issue of race and gender into the Democratic
presidential campaign, it's not going away.
An Iowa native attends his home-town caucus, and discovers deliberative democracy at its freewheeling finest. d
All the candidates reject Bush's disasters--but that won't be enough for the next administration.
The absence of a definitive antiwar candidate has divided the state's peace activists.
Giuliani's conservative kingmaker knows all about the ugly side of Third World debt. He invented it.
A closer look at the Texas energy interests fueling the former New York mayor's presidential campaign.
It felt a bit like Election Day in Iowa this weekend, as Democratic candidates at Senator Tom Harkin's Steak Fry served up appetizers of the campaign to come.
Senator Clinton has a pro-worker voting record. So why are unionists skeptical?
Clinton vows to defend Americans against the privileged and powerful, but her ties to big business compromise her populist promises.
How can Hillary Clinton maintain her populist credentials when Mark Penn, her chief pollster and campaign strategist, also represents the interests of some of America's largest corporations?


