Spinning Hillary Centrist Spinning Hillary Centrist
How can Hillary Clinton maintain her populist credentials when Mark Penn, her chief pollster and campaign strategist, also represents the interests of some of America's largest cor...
May 7, 2007 / Feature / Ari Berman
America’s Idiotic Political Debates America’s Idiotic Political Debates
All France was transfixed as presidential candidates conducted a passionate, freewheeling debate this week. Why are American debates so intentionally stupid?
May 4, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas von Hoffman
Look Who’s Taxing Look Who’s Taxing
Weary of tax cuts for the rich, state politicians are rethinking their aversion to tax-and-spend.
May 3, 2007 / Feature / Chris Hayes
Dems Tangled in Netroots Dems Tangled in Netroots
Working For Us, a new coalition of unions and Internet activists, seeks to reform the Democratic Party from the ground up.
May 2, 2007 / Ari Melber
Showdown on the War Showdown on the War
Despite the Administration's crude and dishonest attacks on efforts to end the war, Congressional Democrats can't back down now.
May 2, 2007 / The Editors
The Future of the Party? The Future of the Party?
Did the recent College Democrats of New York State Convention augur a new day for the Democratic Party?
Apr 27, 2007 / Feature / Habiba Alcindor
The Democrats’ Depressing Debate The Democrats’ Depressing Debate
The candidates ignored race, class and religion, and fumbled the key question of how to get out of Iraq.
Cafe Society Cafe Society
Clive James's erudite new collection of essays celebrates the best of twentieth-century art, thought and politics.
Apr 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Bush Blames the Troops Bush Blames the Troops
Bush is hiding behind the fiction that officers in the field are calling the shots.
Apr 25, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
A Cruel and Unusual Punishment A Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Billy Sothern, member of the legal team that represented Patrick Kennedy, convicted of child rape, in a landmark Supreme Court death penalty decision this week, explained the iss...
Apr 25, 2007 / Feature / Billy Sothern