Cleaning Up Congress & Campaigns Cleaning Up Congress & Campaigns
As the post-Watergate presidential financing system collapses and Congressional elections grow more expensive by the millions every cycle, Senators Dick Durbin and Arlen Specter be...
Jun 21, 2007 / Ari Berman
Obama Wins Straw Poll Obama Wins Straw Poll
Barack Obama won the first annual Take Back America straw poll held this afternoon. Of the over 700 respondents, 29 percent favored Obama, followed by John Edwards in a close secon...
Jun 20, 2007 / Ari Berman
Hillary Booed, Again Hillary Booed, Again
Last summer, when she criticized the idea of setting a timetable to withdraw US forces from Iraq, Hillary Clinton was met with a chorus of boos at the annual Take Back America conf...
Jun 20, 2007 / Ari Berman
Failing With Fatah Failing With Fatah
Since last November, the United States government has been prepping fighters from Fatah, the security arm of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), to do battle with Hamas....
Jun 18, 2007 / Ari Berman
The Queen of Earmarks? The Queen of Earmarks?
There is nothing inherently wrong with "earmarks," which the Sunlight Foundation describes as "a provision in legislation that directs funds to be spent on specific ...
Jun 14, 2007 / Ari Berman
Foreign Agent Fred Foreign Agent Fred
The mainstream media is starting to pay attention to Fred Thompson's decades-long gig as a well-heeled Washington lobbyist. His client list has been noted in this space and elsewhe...
Jun 12, 2007 / Ari Berman
Bad News Benchmarks Bad News Benchmarks
The Brookings Institution's Iraq Index provides the most authoritative measure of how much progress is being made in Iraq. Their recent findings? Not much.
Jun 11, 2007 / Ari Berman
Curbing Corporate America Curbing Corporate America
Corporate and CEO profits are at an all-time high. The richest 1 percent in America posses the wealth of the bottom 95 percent combined. Companies deploy hundreds of lobbyists and ...
Jun 8, 2007 / Ari Berman
Hillary vs. Labor, Round II Hillary vs. Labor, Round II
Hillary Clinton's chief strategist, Mark Penn, is becoming a liability for her campaign. Following the publication of The Nation's article, Hillary Inc., the heads of two large uni...
Jun 7, 2007 / Ari Berman
Hillary vs. Labor Hillary vs. Labor
A few weeks ago The Nation disclosed that Hillary Clinton's chief strategist and pollster, Mark Penn, leads a giant PR firm, Burson-Marsteller, that aggressively helps corporations...
Jun 5, 2007 / Ari Berman