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Super Tuesday Live Video Super Tuesday Live Video

Watch the Young Turks and Brave New Films coverage of the Super Tuesday voting results with a raft of special guest commentators, including The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, Sen...

Feb 6, 2008 / Peter Rothberg

Alt Spring Break Alt Spring Break

I know I'm asking to be ignored with a non-Super Tuesday post on the largest primary day in US history. But there's more to politics than elections and no matter who occupies the ...

Feb 5, 2008 / Peter Rothberg

Bush Defense Budget Bush Defense Budget

As the poor and middle-class continue to bear the brunt of these hard economic times, struggling to pay for housing, food, heating and health care, the Pentagon today announced it...

Feb 5, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Ten Tips for Sorting Out Super Tuesday Spin Ten Tips for Sorting Out Super Tuesday Spin

Super Tuesday is such a monumental moment on the 2008 political calendar that the big day's voting actually voting began when it was still just ordinary Monday in America. And th...

Feb 5, 2008 / John Nichols

Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama

Hillary Clinton is smart, energetic, immensely knowledgeable, and, as she likes to say, hard-working. I've been appalled by the misogynous vitriol (and mean-girl snark) aime...

Feb 4, 2008 / Katha Pollitt

An Obama Sweep? What Are the Possibilities? An Obama Sweep? What Are the Possibilities?

Could Barack Obama "close the deal" on Super Tuesday? When almost two dozen states are voting, the Democratic presidential campaigns of both Illinois Senator Obama and New York S...

Feb 4, 2008 / John Nichols

Bill Clinton Campaigns… Against Ted Kennedy Bill Clinton Campaigns… Against Ted Kennedy

Do we think a certain former president might still be smarting over Ted Kennedy's decision to endorse Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton? Bill Clinton tried hard to land the endor...

Feb 3, 2008 / John Nichols

Patti and People Power Patti and People Power

Rock n' Roll Hall of Famer Patti Smith, The Nation's unofficial bard and balladeer, is on the job still fighting to ensure that – like her powerful song says – People Have the...

Feb 1, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Ann Coulter’s Diabolical Campaign for Clinton Ann Coulter’s Diabolical Campaign for Clinton

Her critics may dismiss Ann Coulter as a "kooky-con," the craziest of conservatives. But there is nothing nutty about Coulter. If the right-wing diva appears to be crazy, it is c...

Feb 1, 2008 / John Nichols

Obama-Clinton? Clinton-Obama? Obama-Clinton? Clinton-Obama?

Politics, it is said, is show business for ugly people. So it only made sense when the Democratic presidential race came to Hollywood, viewers of the last debate before a score of...

Feb 1, 2008 / John Nichols

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