Will Ned Lamont Get Connecticut AFSCME’s Endorsement? Will Ned Lamont Get Connecticut AFSCME’s Endorsement?
Watch for tonight's vote at the Connecticut AFSCME Council 4 meeting. A high-level source in the Lamont campaign told me last night that it looks likely that Council's members wil...
Sep 15, 2006 / The Nation
Real Link Between 9/11 and Iraq Revealed Real Link Between 9/11 and Iraq Revealed
You've heard the President and Vice President say it over and over: There was a connection between the events of September 11, 2001 and Iraq. Let's take this seriously and conside...
Sep 15, 2006 / The Nation
The Skewed Electorate The Skewed Electorate
A new report from a California think tank confirms what many have long suspected: if Latinos, the poor, and the uneducated voted in proportionate numbers the state's politica...
Sep 14, 2006 / The Nation
Hack the Vote Hack the Vote
So much for ballot security. Three Princeton University professors designed and tested software to hack a Diebold electronic voting machine. Watch the video. On Huffington Post,...
Sep 14, 2006 / The Nation
Shameless in Chicago Shameless in Chicago
Apparently, Wal-Mart's defenders are still shamelessly willing to play the racism card in order to slander the company's critics. For years, as I've written before, the company ha...
Sep 13, 2006 / The Nation
Torture ‘R’ Us [Corrections Department] Torture ‘R’ Us [Corrections Department]
On Tuesday, in its page 2 "Corrections: For the Record" section, the New York Times corrected the misstated given name of a state trooper and the misstated year in which Nikolay ...
Sep 13, 2006 / The Nation
Ford’s Fate Ford’s Fate
When it comes to winning back the Senate, Rep. Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee is beginning to look like the Democrats' make-or-break candidate--and that might not be such a good th...
Sep 13, 2006 / The Nation
Pondering Peretz Pondering Peretz
The long-time finacier and reinging poo-bah of The New Republic, Marty Peretz, has formally entered the blogosphere with a dramtic ... thud. Dubbing his site The Spine, Peretz o...
Sep 13, 2006 / The Nation
Ford’s Fate Ford’s Fate
When it comes to winning back the Senate, Rep. Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee is beginning to look like the Democrats' make-or-break candidate--and that might not be such a good th...
Sep 12, 2006 / The Nation
Left on K? Left on K?
If Democrats regain the House or Senate in November, will the lobbyist-industrial complex known as K Street turn left or lose business? The answer: yes, a little, but no, not muc...
Sep 12, 2006 / The Nation