The Ad Wars – Election ’06 The Ad Wars – Election ’06
Below are five of the nastiest ads of the midterms. They offer a glimpse into what a party and its candidates do when the issues are stacked against them (Bush, Iraq, health care...
Nov 7, 2006 / The Nation
Flavor of the Cycle – Election ’06 Flavor of the Cycle – Election ’06
Tom Kean is down in the polls. So he's unleashing a desperate last-ditch effort to smear Sen. Bob Menendez (who I mention in a recent post on peace candidates). It involves the ...
Nov 7, 2006 / The Nation
The Return of Daniel Ortega The Return of Daniel Ortega
Despite Daniel Ortega's many flaws, the return of the Sandinistas to power creates the possibility that his challenge to the "savage capitalism" of the previous regime can genuinel...
Nov 7, 2006 / Feature / Mark Engler
Beginning of the End Beginning of the End
The Iraq Study Group report comes too late for the 600,000 people who died in carnage that is likely to worsen. It won't satisfy the antiwar movement because it sets no timetable f...
Nov 7, 2006 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
Refusing to Swallow the Spin Refusing to Swallow the Spin
No one is going to suggest that the mainstream media that spent much of the last week of a critical national election campaign focusing on a non-candidate's failed attempt to tell...
Nov 7, 2006 / The Nation
Voting Reform Begins with Secretaries of State Voting Reform Begins with Secretaries of State
Worried about the integrity of today's election? You should be. The United States has a dysfunctional election system that produces unequal results depending on the state in which...
Nov 7, 2006 / John Nichols
Refusing to Swallow the Spin Refusing to Swallow the Spin
No one is going to suggest that the mainstream media that spent much of the last week of a critical national election campaign focusing on a non-candidate's failed attempt to tell...
Nov 7, 2006 / John Nichols
Voter Protection Resources Voter Protection Resources
With the need for democracy promotion at home all to clear – particularly voter protection in the face of new Jim Crow-like suppression tactics – many groups are responding t...
Nov 7, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Missing on Affirmative Action: Lazy and deceptive rhetoric hides realities in the debate Missing on Affirmative Action: Lazy and deceptive rhetoric hides realities in the debate
Lazy and deceptive rhetoric hides realities in the debate.
Nov 7, 2006 / The Nation
Gambling Ban a Bust:History will prove folding on online gaming to be a bad bet Gambling Ban a Bust:History will prove folding on online gaming to be a bad bet
History will prove folding on online gaming to be a bad bet.
Nov 7, 2006 / The Nation