When Prosecutors Get Political When Prosecutors Get Political
What does a politicized Justice Department look like? Political hack Bradley Schlozman gave the Senate Judiciary Committee an idea when he testified about his tenure as a US Attorn...
Jun 6, 2007 / Feature / Justin Levitt
Why We Need Fringe Candidates Why We Need Fringe Candidates
They're laughed at and pushed to the edge of the podium as frontrunners dominate the debate, but they sometimes have the guts to tell the truth.
Jun 6, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Hillary Inc. Hillary Inc.
Clinton vows to defend Americans against the privileged and powerful, but her ties to big business compromise her populist promises.
May 17, 2007 / Feature / Ari Berman
New Energy for America New Energy for America
Under Bush, the right has failed to address energy independence. Can Democrats rise to the challenge?
May 17, 2007 / Editorial / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage
Nutter Wins in Philadelphia Nutter Wins in Philadelphia
A favored Democrat's mayoral primary win divides a city between those who support his hardball anticrime tactics and minorities who see them as a blueprint for racial profiling.
May 17, 2007 / Feature / Patrick Mulvaney
Laboring for Edwards Laboring for Edwards
John Edwards is meticulously laying the groundwork to become the candidate of organized labor, insisting prosperity can expand only if unionization expands.
May 10, 2007 / Editorial / Marc Cooper
Spinning Hillary Centrist Spinning Hillary Centrist
How can Hillary Clinton maintain her populist credentials when Mark Penn, her chief pollster and campaign strategist, also represents the interests of some of America's largest cor...
May 7, 2007 / Feature / Ari Berman
America’s Idiotic Political Debates America’s Idiotic Political Debates
All France was transfixed as presidential candidates conducted a passionate, freewheeling debate this week. Why are American debates so intentionally stupid?
May 4, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas von Hoffman
Dems Tangled in Netroots Dems Tangled in Netroots
Working For Us, a new coalition of unions and Internet activists, seeks to reform the Democratic Party from the ground up.
May 2, 2007 / Editorial / Ari Melber
The Democrats’ Depressing Debate The Democrats’ Depressing Debate
The candidates ignored race, class and religion, and fumbled the key question of how to get out of Iraq.