Campaigns and Elections

3 Facts About the Supposed Cost of Undocumented Immigration

3 Facts About the Supposed Cost of Undocumented Immigration 3 Facts About the Supposed Cost of Undocumented Immigration

Or, a campaign-inspired lesson on why myth busting and fact checking isn’t going to be enough to fight anti-immigrant politics in 2016.

Oct 12, 2015 / Julianne Hing

Voting Registration

What Alabama Can Learn From California on Voting Rights What Alabama Can Learn From California on Voting Rights

As Alabama closes DMV locations in black counties, California passes a law to automatically register 6 million new voters.

Oct 12, 2015 / Ari Berman

Jeb Bush

Jeb Bush Is Completely Wrong About the Voting Rights Act Jeb Bush Is Completely Wrong About the Voting Rights Act

Bush says the VRA is no longer necessary, but his home state of Florida has been a hotbed of voter suppression since 2000.

Oct 8, 2015 / Ari Berman

Did Predatory Lenders Pay These 12 Lawmakers to Hobble the CFPB?

Did Predatory Lenders Pay These 12 Lawmakers to Hobble the CFPB? Did Predatory Lenders Pay These 12 Lawmakers to Hobble the CFPB?

An ethics complaint filed this week alleges that industry lobbyists and donors crossed the fuzzy line between routine fundraising and a quid pro quo arrangement.

Oct 8, 2015 / Joshua Holland

Hillary on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Hillary on ‘Saturday Night Live’ Hillary on ‘Saturday Night Live’

So Hillary did SNL. And critics believed she did well. But Democrats, midst all the fun, Still wondered how Joe would have done.

Oct 8, 2015 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Culture That Capitalism Created

The Culture That Capitalism Created The Culture That Capitalism Created

An interview with Boots Riley.

Oct 8, 2015 / Editorial / Laura Flanders

Alan Grayson

Alan Grayson Takes on Kevin McCarthyism Alan Grayson Takes on Kevin McCarthyism

Did the speaker-in-waiting reveal “a clear and unequivocal misuse of appropriated funds for political purposes” in the targeting of Hillary Clinton?

Oct 8, 2015 / John Nichols

Hillary Clinton Just Made Passage of the TPP Much More Difficult

Hillary Clinton Just Made Passage of the TPP Much More Difficult Hillary Clinton Just Made Passage of the TPP Much More Difficult

Forget 2016–Hillary just changed the congressional debate on the trade pact.

Oct 7, 2015 / George Zornick

Ben Carson

Ben Carson Just Keeps Getting More Awful. Why? Ben Carson Just Keeps Getting More Awful. Why?

The mild-mannered reactionary used to be the anti-Trump. Now he’s one-upping him on guns. This won’t end well.

Oct 7, 2015 / Joan Walsh

These People Are the Secret to Bernie Sanders’s Success

These People Are the Secret to Bernie Sanders’s Success These People Are the Secret to Bernie Sanders’s Success

Sanders leads Hillary Clinton by a comfortable margin in New Hampshire, and he has almost caught her in nationwide fundraising. How did he do it?

Oct 7, 2015 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan

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