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. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and political science.

Articles

Going Nowhere (Parties, Politics)

In May 2003 the centrist Democratic Leadership Council published its yearly list of "100 New Democrats to Watch." The DLC frequently puts out these lists as a way to publicly solidify its identif

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When Red Meets Blue (Presidential Election 2004, Urban Issues, Politics)

A bipartisan dialogue in this election year? In New York City? During the Republican convention?! We always knew those folks at The New School were a little nutty.

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Populist Politics Meet Popular Culture (Presidential Election 2004, Politics)

"If Vice President Cheney were here, he'd tell you all to go fuck yourself!"

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Searching for Spin (Presidential Election 2004, Conservatives and the American Right, Politics)

Inside the GOP's Boston war room.

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The Postwar Post (Corporate Media and Consolidation, Society)

Their reporters had the goods, but the Washington Post editors chose not to display them.

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Ideas the Pentagon Wishes It Never Had (US Intelligence)

A recap of the Pentagon's most egregious post-9/11 mistakes, mishaps and manifestations of misdirection.