Micah L. Sifry

Micah L. Sifry, a former Nation associate editor, writes a weekly newsletter called The Connector, focusing on the intersection of politics, organizing, technology and democracy.

Independents’ Day Independents’ Day

It's fitting that the first senator to become an independent in more than thirty years hails from Vermont, the state with the most advanced independent politics in the nation. Ver...

May 31, 2001 / Editorial / Micah L. Sifry

Clean Elections at Stake Clean Elections at Stake

For government to represent the interests of average people, public officials have to be liberated from their dependence on private interests to finance their campaigns.

May 29, 2001 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry

A Working Third Party A Working Third Party

Multiracial and populist, New York's Working Families Party gains ground.

Oct 19, 2000 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry

Public Citizen No.1 Public Citizen No.1

CORRECTION (from the Dec. 27 issue): In Micah L. Sifry's "Public Citizen No. 1" [Dec. 20], Carl Mayer, although he is among those urging Nader to run, was incorrectly identified as...

Dec 2, 1999 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry

Buchanan Breaks Ranks Buchanan Breaks Ranks

In Washington, a city in which (to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf) all is gossip, corruption and chatter, the end-of-summer buzz has been about Pat Buchanan and whether he'll ...

Sep 2, 1999 / Editorial / Doug Ireland and Micah L. Sifry

Israel Diary Israel Diary

March 28: SECURITY (I) At moments, I wonder whether we've left America.

May 6, 1999 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry

Jesse ‘The Gov’ Ventura Jesse ‘The Gov’ Ventura

On January 4, 1999, Jesse Ventura will be sworn in as the new governor of Minnesota amid a media deluge not seen since the state hosted the Super Bowl.

Dec 17, 1998 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry

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