The Empire Strikes Barack
Humanitainment : Presidential Election 2008
Can the entire narrative of the last few months of the Democratic nomination fight be found in the second Star Wars film?
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Gas Tax Holiday (from Reality)
Talking Points Memo : Presidential Election 2008
As far as Hillary Clinton is concerned, if you disagree with her gas tax plan, you're an elitist.
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A Deeper Black
Ta-Nehisi Coates : Non-Fiction
Shelby Steele's book on Barack Obama, an outdated critique of identity politics, misses the candidate's essential power.
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Can Obama Resurrect Real Conservatism?
Susannah Vila : Politics
A conversation with Andrew Bacevich about what conservatives and progressives can hope for in the post-Bush era.
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Fox News' Obama Lies Are Spreading
Brave New Films : Fox News Network
We'd expect Fox News to cover Barack Obama unfairly, but who knew the so-called "liberal media" would follow their lead so often?
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Pennsylvania's 'Obamicans'
Ari Berman : Pennsylvania
Democratic activism and Obama's campaign have turned Doylestown, Pennsylvania, from solid red to purple--maybe even blue.
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Bowling for Pennsylvania
Gaiutra Bahadur : Pennsylvania
Can Barack Obama get racially mixed communities in Pennsylvania's small towns to bowl together?
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Bitter Fruit in Pennsylvania
Gary Younge : Presidential Election 2008
If Obama's remarks on poor white voters were gauche, the responses they elicited have been galling.
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Maybe One Cheer for Barack Obama
Alexander Cockburn : Presidential Election 2008
He's not a real fighter. He's too pretty and doesn't want to get his looks messed up.
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Progressives for Obama
Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
The future has arrived: progressives can make a difference to ensure Barack Obama is our next President.
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Obama, Politics and the Pulpit
Christopher Hayes : Presidential Election 2008
The uproar over intemperate remarks by Obama's former pastor reveals all that's repellant in our national discourse over race, religion and politics.
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The People's Ball
Nicholas von Hoffman : Campaigns & Elections
How Saul Alinsky would plan Obama's inauguration, and his government.
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The Working-Class Vote in Ohio
Brett Story & VideoNation : US Politics & Government
What issues matter to Ohio's blue-collar voters? JoAnn Wypijewski reports from the campaign trail.
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Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not a Smear
Naomi Klein : Disaster Capitalism
He should denounce the attacks themselves as racist propaganda.
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Less Whining, More Dirt!
Alexander Cockburn : Presidential Election 2008
Obama can take the rhetorical high road, but he should have some mean stokers in the engine room.
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Obama's Mercenary Position
Jeremy Scahill : Iraq War
He calls private security forces "unaccountable" but may use them in Iraq. Meanwhile, Clinton wants to ban them. UPDATED
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'End the War in 2009'
Tom Hayden : Iraq War
Barack Obama has hastened his timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq, setting the stage for an election battle with John McCain and the forces of neoconservatism.
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The History of Hope
Peter Dreier : History
Voters drawn to Barack Obama are often criticized as naive. But appeals to our collective hope for a more decent society are core to the American experience.
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Unstoppable Obama
Barbara Ehrenreich
All of us, of whatever race, want a fresh start. That's what "change" means right now: Get us out of here!
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Generation O
Cora Currier : Voters & Voting
The depth and substance of Obama's youth phenomenon has yet to be tested.
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Purple Obama
Bob Moser : Presidential Election 2008
While Obama was winning over Virginians he was not supposed to have a prayer with, McCain was losing some voters he must have.
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Obama's Promise
The Editors : Presidential Election 2008
He offers the best chance to redefine the center of American politics and forge a new progressive majority.
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The Choice
Christopher Hayes : Presidential Election 2008
Here's why Obama is the left's best chance to take back the country.
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Obama, Clinton and the War
Robert Scheer : Hillary Clinton
Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Obama sheds some needed light on Hillary's hawkishness and the real differences between the candidates.
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A Torch Passed
Amy Alexander : Presidential Election 2008
With a veritable Mount Rushmore of Kennedy faces arrayed behind him, Barack Obama received powerful symbolic and political support from the icons of the liberal establishment.
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Endorsing Obama
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
The movement he's inspired holds the promise of a new cycle of activism, reform and fresh thinking. So I will support him through the inevitable storms ahead.
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Some Things Even Obama Can't Transcend
Gary Younge : Racism & Discrimination
Before we can talk sensibly about transcending difference, we must first transform the conditions that give these differences meaning.
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Black Women Talk Barack
Amy Alexander : Feminism & Women
It's like one big family squabble among feminists, activists and post-civil-rights-era voters.
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Subprime Obama
Max Fraser : Banks & Banking
He should stiffen his meager bailout plan and call for a moratorium on foreclosures and serious government intervention.
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Bill and Hill's Dangerous Game
Nicholas von Hoffman : Bill Clinton
The Clintons cannot compete with the enthusiasm Obama sets off so they are trying to destroy it. They just may succeed--but at an awful price.
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Racial Politics, Clinton Style
Ari Berman : Hillary Clinton
No matter who injected the issue of race and gender into the Democratic presidential campaign, it's not going away.
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The Weepy Witch and; the Secret Muslim
Katha Pollitt : Hillary Clinton
If the campaign becomes a competition between race and gender, the winner will be whichever white man the GOP nominates.
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King's Legacy of Change
Grace Lee Boggs : Civil Rights Movement
No single person can be the agent of change: the vision must come from all of us.
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Obama's Wide Net
Ari Melber : Internet & New Media
His web-driven, self-starting activism could be the key to getting his message out--and bringing young voters to the polls on Super Tuesday.
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American Pie
Patricia J. Williams : Hillary Clinton
Don't let the media or the right-wing spinmeisters reduce our first-ever serious black and female presidential candidates to stereotypes.
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A Season of 'Change'
Jonathan Schell : Presidential Election 2008
Throughout the political sphere--in Democratic and Republican campaigns, in media coverage and pollsters' surveys--the word "change" is bubbling on people's lips. What does it really mean?
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A Night at the Caucus
Ari Berman : Presidential Election 2008
An Iowa native attends his home-town caucus, and discovers deliberative democracy at its freewheeling finest.
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Obama, Race and the Presidency
Ari Melber : Racism & Discrimination
Barack Obama's historic victory in Iowa comes at a crucial time for a nation still grappling with how remedies to offset racism affect America's power structure.
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Too Much of a Bad Thing
Nicholas von Hoffman : Campaign Finance
Hillary Clinton's touting her expertise over Obama--but is experience at political attack, mega-fundraising and cronyism really all that desirable?
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South Carolina: Inside the 'Black Primary'
As Clinton and Obama square off in South Carolina, a window opens on the fractured state of black politics. It's been an extended soul search. And it ain't over yet.
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The Obama Effect
Gary Younge : Civil Rights & Liberties
Have the dreams of the civil rights movement been realized or deferred?
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The Audacity of Oprah
Patricia J. Williams : Presidential Election 2008
The combined power of Oprah & Obama could reinvigorate our embattled political landscape.
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Barack Obama
Michael Eric Dyson : Presidential Election 2008
A visionary candidate for a new America.
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How Different Are the Top Three Dems?
Katha Pollitt : Hillary Clinton
Clinton, Edwards, Obama: behind the branding, they're more similar than you think.
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Clinton and Obama: Running on Ambien
Barbara Ehrenreich : Hillary Clinton
Can America survive the tedium of its black and female candidates?
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Democrats Sizzle in Iowa
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.
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Hillary Pushes the Button
Robert Scheer : Hillary Clinton
What in the world was Clinton thinking when she attacked Obama for pledging not to use nuclear weapons in the hunt for Osama bin Laden?
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Jesse Jackson Can't Help Obama
Earl Ofari Hutchinson : African-Americans
Obama thinks Jackson's endorsement will give him a rocket boost with black voters. It won't.
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Obama's Community Roots
Barack Obama's political vision grew out of his early experiences as a community organizer in Chicago.
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L'Étranger
Patricia J. Williams : African-Americans
The media have fashioned an impossible portrait of Barack Obama: an American cleansed of the baggage of racism and slavery.
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Obama's Impressive Youthroots
Barack Obama's youthful supporters are using Facebook and other social networking web tools to spark a movement that could make a real difference.
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Obama's Media Maven
Christopher Hayes : Media Analysis
David Axelrod, Barack Obama's closest political adviser, is applying the lessons he learned from Chicago's ugly racialized politics.
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Obama's Ruined Homeland
In Kenya's Yala Swamp, where Senator Barack Obama traces his African roots, an Oklahoma-based company has wrecked a rich and delicate ecosystem.
This week: Will racism or sexism win the day? Plus: Esther Kaplan on workplace safety and Steven Greenhouse on the struggle facing younger workers. (13mb mp3)
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