Did Race Win the Race for Hillary?
Gaiutra Bahadur : Racism & Discrimination
Does living in mixed communities make people less or more vulnerable to campaigning that plays on ethnic and racial divisions?

Gaiutra Bahadur : Racism & Discrimination
Does living in mixed communities make people less or more vulnerable to campaigning that plays on ethnic and racial divisions?
Ari Berman : Barack Obama
Democratic activism and Obama's campaign have turned Doylestown, Pennsylvania, from solid red to purple--maybe even blue.
Gaiutra Bahadur : Barack Obama
Can Barack Obama get racially mixed communities in Pennsylvania's small towns to bowl together?
Ari Berman : Electoral Politics
The wheels are falling off Curt Weldon's electoral wagon, as the wacky Pennsylvania Republican finds himself mired in a criminal investigation.
Robert Casey Jr.'s endorsement of Samuel Alito could cost him the support of Pennsylvania Democrats and illustrates the perils of early intervention by DC Democrats in Senate races.
Eyal Press : Education Policy & Reform
As the site of a trial on including intelligent design in biology
textbooks, Dover, Pennsylvania, is a focal point of a national debate
on science and religion. But a look at the town and its residents show
that the battle may not be so clearly defined.



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