Political Analysis

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The Editors

Jeff Madrick on Clintonomics; John Nichols on the Ron Paul revolt; Ari Berman on superdelegate fence-sitters
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The Editors

Longshoremen protest the war, Ken Livingstone loses London, Zephyr Teachout blogs The Nation.
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The country's off-track; Blackwater's back in business; J. Goodrich blogs at The Nation.com.
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The Editors

Henry Paulson's pitiful reform; Michelle Bachelet, bedeviled by Opus Dei; Pentagon follies; and indecency in Indiana.
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The Editors

Prizes for The Nation, Pelosi in Tibet, counting the casualties.
They Like Mike

Micah L. Sifry : Electoral Politics

Is America ready for a nonideological problem solver with liberal views on gun control, gay rights and abortion?

2007

Apocalypse Now?

Stephen Holmes : Non-Fiction

According to Chalmers Johnson, Bush's imperial presidency may be the final chapter in the collapse of American democracy.
The GOP's Iraq Problem

Robert Dreyfuss : Republican Party

Iraq has become a liability the GOP can hardly afford.
Happy Birthday, George McGovern

Rep. Jim McGovern

As he observes his eighty-fifth birthday, here's a tribute to 'the most decent man in the US Senate,' who has left his mark on politics and on the American people.
Pelosi and Diplomacy

: US Foreign Policy

By refusing to negotiate at home and abroad, Bush has become isolated and dangerous.
The Way Down South

Bob Moser : US Politics & Government

The South is more purple than red, and Democrats don't need to sell their souls to win it back.

It Wasn't All Bad

Katha Pollitt : Journalists & Journalism

Bush is on the defensive. The GOP is mired in corruption. The media are waking up. Civil liberties are beginning to matter. See? Good things did happen in 2005.
The Year of Vanished Credibility

Alexander Cockburn : Democratic Party

2005 added up to this: No credibility for the President, or for the Democrats, or for the New York Times, which took a year to figure out whether the Constitution is worth fighting for. 2006 should be exciting.
Dictionary of Republicanisms

Katrina vanden Heuvel : Republican Party

Compassionate conservativism n. An expensively cultivated phrase created by a decades-old and well-funded Radical Right program of Orwellian doublespeak.
Minority/Majority

David Sirota : Democratic Party

While Rahm Emanuel sticks with a "stay-the-course" approach, despite polls that show Americans want out of Iraq, Carl Levin becames the latest high-level leader to make a compelling argument for withdrawal.
Spreading the Dough

Ruth Conniff : Campaign Finance

How can the left build a new majority? EMILY's List has a big piece of the answer.