Politics

Super Tuesday’s Big Winner Is Already Settled Super Tuesday’s Big Winner Is Already Settled

Super PACS take Super Tuesday.

Mar 6, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Battling Big Money: Vermont Town Meetings Will Move to Amend Battling Big Money: Vermont Town Meetings Will Move to Amend

More than fifty communities across the state will vote on proposals urging Congress to amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United.

Mar 6, 2012 / John Nichols

Five Million Voters May Lose Rights in the 2012 Elections Five Million Voters May Lose Rights in the 2012 Elections

Two states in the Super Tuesday primaries—Georgia and Tennessee—are part of a wave of states that created troubling voting laws following the Tea Party Republican victo...

Mar 6, 2012 / Brentin Mock

Super Tuesday Sees Romney’s Softer Side Super Tuesday Sees Romney’s Softer Side

Romney’s strategy has been to tear down those around him without giving people reasons to like him.

Mar 6, 2012 / Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto

Rick Santorum’s Elite Background

Rick Santorum’s Elite Background Rick Santorum’s Elite Background

Santorum has a chance in Ohio because he appeals more to working-class voters than Romney. But his blue-collar roots are a myth. 

Mar 5, 2012 / Ben Adler

Workers, and NLRB, Under Attack

Workers, and NLRB, Under Attack Workers, and NLRB, Under Attack

Republicans have accomplished what Democrats and unions never could: they’ve made the National Labor Relations Board a household name.

Mar 5, 2012 / Josh Eidelson

How to Fund an American Police State How to Fund an American Police State

The government is spending real money on an imaginary war.

Mar 5, 2012 / Stephan Salisbury

Mitt Romney’s ‘Cut-and-Paste’ Fantasy Candidacy

Mitt Romney’s ‘Cut-and-Paste’ Fantasy Candidacy Mitt Romney’s ‘Cut-and-Paste’ Fantasy Candidacy

Romney's campaign doctors newspaper editorials and then sends them to reporters hoping to spin the story. In fact, even his backers have doubts.

Mar 5, 2012 / John Nichols

The Right-Wing Effort to Smear Obama and Liberals as ‘Anti-Israel’ The Right-Wing Effort to Smear Obama and Liberals as ‘Anti-Israel’

The Emergency Committee for Israel is accusing President Obama and liberal think tanks of opposing Israel’s interests, but they don’t have the evidence to back it up.&n...

Mar 4, 2012 / Ben Adler

Breitbart, Limbaugh and the Great Right-Wing Flame-out

Breitbart, Limbaugh and the Great Right-Wing Flame-out Breitbart, Limbaugh and the Great Right-Wing Flame-out

Andrew Breitbart came to represent the unsustainable tantrum that drives the extreme right. 

Mar 4, 2012 / Leslie Savan

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