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January 18, 2008
Racial Politics, Clinton Style
No matter who injected the issue of race and gender into the Democratic presidential campaign, it’s not going away.
Ari Berman
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January 17, 2008
The Weepy Witch & the Secret Muslim
If the campaign becomes a competition between race and gender, the winner will be whichever white man the GOP nominates.
Katha Pollitt
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January 16, 2008
King’s Legacy of Change
No single person can be the agent of change: the vision must come from all of us.
Grace Lee Boggs
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January 10, 2008
Obama’s Wide Net
His web-driven, self-starting activism could be the key to getting his message out–and bringing young voters to the polls on Super Tuesday.
Ari Melber
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January 10, 2008
American Pie
Don’t let the media or the right-wing spinmeisters reduce our first-ever serious black and female presidential candidates to stereotypes.
Patricia J. Williams
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January 8, 2008
A Season of ‘Change’
Throughout the political sphere–in Democratic and Republican campaigns, in media coverage and pollsters’ surveys–the word “change” is bubbling on people’s lips. What does it really mean?
Jonathan Schell
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January 4, 2008
A Night at the Caucus
An Iowa native attends his home-town caucus, and discovers deliberative democracy at its freewheeling finest. d
Ari Berman
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January 3, 2008
Against Dullness: The Campaigns So Far
All great seasons in politics begin with excitement. Right now there’s none.
Alexander Cockburn
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January 3, 2008
Obama, Race and the Presidency
Barack Obama’s historic victory in Iowa comes at a crucial time for a nation still grappling with how remedies to offset racism affect America’s power structure.
Ari Melber
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December 21, 2007
Too Much of a Bad Thing
Hillary Clinton’s touting her expertise over Obama–but is experience at political attack, mega-fundraising and cronyism really all that desirable?
Nicholas von Hoffman