Why Are Conservatives Trying to Destroy the Voting Rights Act? Why Are Conservatives Trying to Destroy the Voting Rights Act?
A five-decade bipartisan consensus on this key piece of civil rights legislation has collapsed—right when we need its protections more than ever before.
Feb 6, 2013 / Feature / Ari Berman
Five Ways to Save the GOP Five Ways to Save the GOP
Republican strategists, here's your gameplan.
Feb 5, 2013 / Tom Tomorrow
New Scheme to Rig Electoral College: Divide Dem Votes, Winner-Take-All for GOP New Scheme to Rig Electoral College: Divide Dem Votes, Winner-Take-All for GOP
The latest proposal being floated in Pennsylvania for redistributing electoral votes has the same goal as the last plan: allowing a Republican loser to "win" the presidency.
Feb 5, 2013 / John Nichols
Why a Permanent Democratic Majority Is Not a Demographic Inevitability (Part One: Antecedents) Why a Permanent Democratic Majority Is Not a Demographic Inevitability (Part One: Antecedents)
Be very, very careful about the proliferating arguments that demographics show that Republicans are on their way out for good.
Feb 4, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
McCain, Scarborough and What ‘Everyone Knows’ McCain, Scarborough and What ‘Everyone Knows’
Republicans lose it when challenged on their make-believe consensus.
Feb 4, 2013 / Leslie Savan
Libertarian Mugged by Reality Libertarian Mugged by Reality
Perhaps it’s time to revise the old saw that the ivory tower breeds liberals, and the “real world” makes them conservative.
Jan 30, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
The Numbers Just Don’t Add Up on Immigration Reform The Numbers Just Don’t Add Up on Immigration Reform
Since House Republicans from gerrymandered districts need only worry about pandering to their hardcore base, real change probably won’t happen anytime soon.
Jan 29, 2013 / George Zornick
Can the Rising Progressive Tide Lift All Ships? Can the Rising Progressive Tide Lift All Ships?
As the Republican party comes to terms with its own obsolescence, the forward-thinking coalition that elected Barack Obama must tackle economic inequality.
Jan 29, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Meet Ron Johnson, the Randiest of the Ayn Rand Republicans Meet Ron Johnson, the Randiest of the Ayn Rand Republicans
The Senator who interrogated Hillary Clinton thinks we’re living in an Atlas Shrugged moment, and that he’s a lot like one of Rand’s “heroes.”
Jan 29, 2013 / John Nichols
Hell Isle Hell Isle
A group of libertarian investors wants to turn Detroit’s Belle Isle into a private city-state with its own laws, customs and currency.
Jan 28, 2013 / Rick Perlstein