Nation Topics - Election 2012 | The Nation

Why does 76 percent of the civil libertarian’s Super PAC money come from billionaire Peter Thiel, whose Palantir Technologies helps the government spy on citizens?
 

With the economy showing faint signs of life, the leading Republican candidates have returned to the elixir of warmongering to once again sway the gullible masses.

Bribes from billionaires? Super PACs buying campaigns right and left? Let’s just dip our fingers in purple ink and pose for photos.

How can it be that a party with nearly limitless financial resources has such paltry human resources?

Will the state's Republicans respond more to Gingrich's social conservative act, or Romney's businessman persona?

Betrayal by the “good guys” for whom we have ended up voting has become the norm.

The populism of the right is coalescing around the race-bating extremism of Newt Gingrich—and Citizens United is greasing the wheels.

Abramoff made a lot of powerful friends during his days peddling influence in DC, but he never took a shining to Newt.

If Mitt Romney wants to secure the Republican party's presidential nomination, he's going to have to tackle one basic problem: nobody likes him.