Can the 1911 United Super PAC Register a Million Voters for Obama? Can the 1911 United Super PAC Register a Million Voters for Obama?
The group aims to get African-American voters in seven battleground states to re-elect President Obama.
Sep 6, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Voting Rights Watch, Aura Bogado, and Francis Reynolds
Post ‘Fact-Checking’: Fecklessness Squared Post ‘Fact-Checking’: Fecklessness Squared
Eric on fact checks, and Reed on BS punditry.
Sep 6, 2012 / Blog / Eric Alterman
In Charlotte, Schneiderman Hints at RMBS Movement In Charlotte, Schneiderman Hints at RMBS Movement
The New York attorney general suggested his investigation may soon bear fruit, but warned that Mitt Romney could derail it.
Sep 6, 2012 / Blog / George Zornick
Romney Adviser Leads a New Effort to Channel Millions of Undisclosed Bank Money Into the Election Romney Adviser Leads a New Effort to Channel Millions of Undisclosed Bank Money Into the Election
The American Bankers Association, a powerful bank lobbying group, has voted to take advantage of Citizens United and will now spend undisclosed corporate money for bank industry-fr...
Clinton Touts Welfare Reform. Here’s How It Failed. Clinton Touts Welfare Reform. Here’s How It Failed.
Clinton may be explainer-in-chief, but he left out the gaping hole welfare reform has made in the safety net.
Sep 6, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
A Nun on the Podium Takes Apart Paul Ryan A Nun on the Podium Takes Apart Paul Ryan
One of the most powerful, and most powerfully-received speeches of the DNC was that of Sister Simone Campbell, one of the "Nuns on the Bus."
Sep 6, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols
The Racial Politics Behind the Right Wing’s Poll-Watching The Racial Politics Behind the Right Wing’s Poll-Watching
A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice spells out the hyper-partisan and racially charged impact of efforts to police the polls in November.
Sep 6, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Voting Rights Watch and Brentin Mock
Howard Dean: The Case for Obama Howard Dean: The Case for Obama
The former DNC chair predicts an Obama victory, says the future of the Supreme Court at stake.
Sep 6, 2012 / Blog / Ari Berman
Bill Clinton Forms Barack Obama’s More Perfect Union Bill Clinton Forms Barack Obama’s More Perfect Union
Republicans did not want to mention their former president in Tampa. But in Charlotte Democrats followed their former president’s lead. And it could take them all the way in ...
Sep 6, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols
Republicans’ Holy War on the DNC Platform Republicans’ Holy War on the DNC Platform
Conservative complaints about the Democratic platform are just petty politics of religious symbolism.