This Week’s Voting Rights Victories: Colorado and Florida Halt Their Voter Purges This Week’s Voting Rights Victories: Colorado and Florida Halt Their Voter Purges
The push back against voter suppression has resulted in some major victories this week.
Sep 14, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Aura Bogado and Voting Rights Watch
The Racial Burdens Obscured by Voter ID Laws The Racial Burdens Obscured by Voter ID Laws
The burdens of voters of color in Pennsylvania continue to be overlooked by the state’s lawyers.
Sep 14, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Brentin Mock and Voting Rights Watch
Newest GOP National Security Attack on Obama: He Reads Newest GOP National Security Attack on Obama: He Reads
Conservatives are complaining that sometimes President Obama reads intelligence briefings instead of getting them in person. How did George W. Bush handle it?
Ex–Blue Dogs, Defeated by Secret Money, Mount Their Own K Street Front Ex–Blue Dogs, Defeated by Secret Money, Mount Their Own K Street Front
Blue Dog Democrats were wiped out in the midterm elections by secret-money funds controlled by lobbyists. Now, defeated Blue Dogs are working for the same K Street interests and ma...
‘Nightmare’ Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Revisited in Court ‘Nightmare’ Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Revisited in Court
Will Pennsylvania be the next major swing state where a restrictive voting law is struck down by the courts?
Sep 13, 2012 / Blog / Ari Berman
Romney’s Fatal Libya Blunder Romney’s Fatal Libya Blunder
Can you imagine this man in the White House?
Sep 13, 2012 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
Romney-Ryan Prep School Fantasies: Wrong About Teachers… and Parents Romney-Ryan Prep School Fantasies: Wrong About Teachers… and Parents
66 percent of Chicago parents back teachers and their union, while Romney-Ryan back wrongheaded Rahm Emmanel—and the fantasy that parents don't like public education.
Sep 13, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols
What We Can’t Talk About When We Talk About Elections What We Can’t Talk About When We Talk About Elections
This is the most polarized presidential choice since 1980. Yet issues fundamental to the nation’s future have been excluded from the debate.
Sep 12, 2012 / Editorial / The Editors
The Real Risks of Fake Outrage The Real Risks of Fake Outrage
A manufactured controversy aimed at Elizabeth Warren shows the damaging ways we exploit trivial kerfuffles and pass them off as political stories.
Sep 12, 2012 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Mitt Romney, Monsanto Man Mitt Romney, Monsanto Man
In his Bain years, the GOP nominee helped fashion Monsanto into a biotech giant. What would the notorious purveyor of genetically modified foods get from a Romney presidency?
Sep 12, 2012 / Wayne Barrett