Give Dennis Kucinich His Due
Steve Cobble : Dennis Kucinich
Routinely ridiculed as a political eccentric, Kucinich is a braver progressive than most. As he fights for his political life, he deserves our support.
Steve Cobble : Dennis Kucinich
Routinely ridiculed as a political eccentric, Kucinich is a braver progressive than most. As he fights for his political life, he deserves our support.
John Nichols : Electoral Politics
With the Congressional race under way, the essential question is: will the Democrats be more progressive post-Bush?
Minnesota Senate candidate Al Franken has won wide support among voters--and conservatives are getting scared.
Mark Hertsgaard : Political Parties
Memo to Congress: the Arctic is on thin ice--and so are you.
Cindy Sheehan & Katrina vanden Heuvel
A dialogue between the peace activist and The Nation's editor over Sheehan's plan to run for Congress against Representative Nancy Pelosi.
Jon Wiener : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
It's early in the game, but his bid to unseat Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman is gaining strength.
Michael Tisserand : Democratic Party
There's little evidence so far that Democrats will push for reconstruction in New Orleans.
Latino voters walked away from the GOP in the midterm elections, a payback for the party's ruthlessly anti-immigrant stance.
Christopher Hayes : Wages & Hours
Economic populism was the most underreported story of the midterms and will be the cornerstone of any new Democratic majority.
Jonathan Schell : Civil Rights & Liberties
The GOP's one-party rule has created a constitutional crisis that threatens America's future. By pulling the right lever on November 7, voters can throw this party out of office.
Marc Cooper : Democratic Party
While Democrats on the national level dream of a landslide, in
California, the party is facing another electoral debacle.
Harold Ford has wooed and wowed white conservatives in Tennessee with a mash-up of star power, earthy eloquence and a contrarian right-wingery that has driven the GOP to take drastic measures.
Marc Cooper : Immigration to the US
As Democratic Congressional candidates in Arizona embrace comprehensive immigration reform, conservative Republicans are no longer winning on their "militarize the border" message.
John Nichols : Democratic Party
The road to the Democrats' renewal runs through Ohio, and Sherrod Brown is on it, looking for the towns his party forgot and the voters who got away.
Key primary races in Maryland, Rhode Island and even New York are making the Iraq War what it should be in every 2006 political contest: the central issue.
As the Democratic Party embraces Ned Lamont, it must also embrace his antiwar message: It proved a winning strategy for Connecticut, and will be for the midterm elections.
