RNC’s Priebus Proposes to Rig Electoral College so Losing Republicans Can ‘Win’ RNC’s Priebus Proposes to Rig Electoral College so Losing Republicans Can ‘Win’
By changing the distribution of electoral votes to rely on results of gerrymandered congressional districts, Priebus plan would game the system for GOP.
Jan 14, 2013 / John Nichols
The Creative Electoral Response The Creative Electoral Response
I refused to run a negative campaign for New York City Council, focusing instead on community and democratic empowerment.
Jan 9, 2013 / Feature / Yetta Kurland
Ten Things To Put the GOP Back on Track Ten Things To Put the GOP Back on Track
It’s tempting to let the GOP continue its slide toward irrelevance—but that would deny this country the robust political debate we need.
Jan 8, 2013 / Gregory Joseph
I’m With Tagg: Mitt Didn’t Want to Be President I’m With Tagg: Mitt Didn’t Want to Be President
Mitt Romney deserved a Faye Dunaway Award for his “Make me president! Don’t make me president!” ambivalence.
Dec 27, 2012 / Leslie Savan
No Senator, Republican or Democrat, Should Serve by Appointment No Senator, Republican or Democrat, Should Serve by Appointment
The three new senators being appointed by their governors will have no democratic legitimacy.
Dec 26, 2012 / John Nichols
Speaker Boehner Loses It Speaker Boehner Loses It
The Speaker's own House Repulicans abandoned him in the Plan B vote. But the American people already abandoned Boehner and the Republicans on November 6.
Dec 21, 2012 / John Nichols
Senate Hearing Recounts the Many Election Season Mishaps of 2012 Senate Hearing Recounts the Many Election Season Mishaps of 2012
Elections administrators gathered for a hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary to unpack some of the shenanigans from last month.
Dec 20, 2012 / Brentin Mock and Voting Rights Watch
Figuring Out Why 93 Million People Didn’t Vote Figuring Out Why 93 Million People Didn’t Vote
Forty percent of voters didn’t participate last month. A new report outlines who they are, and why they didn’t cast a ballot.
Dec 19, 2012 / Aura Bogado and Voting Rights Watch
A Highly Subjective and Inadequate Look Back at a Jam-Packed Year Full of Crazy (Part 2) A Highly Subjective and Inadequate Look Back at a Jam-Packed Year Full of Crazy (Part 2)
Your humble cartoonist goes crazy trying to catalog a year's worth of crazy.
Dec 17, 2012 / Tom Tomorrow
Today the Election Is Really Decided Today the Election Is Really Decided
Why does the Electoral College have the final say? It’s time to put voters in charge of choosing our president.
Dec 17, 2012 / John Nichols