Politics

Heartland Forum Tackles the Real Issues Heartland Forum Tackles the Real Issues

Pushing past TV's divisive debate format, a unusual forum in Iowa Saturday pushed Democratic candidates to really explain where they stand on pollution, immigration and predatory l...

Dec 3, 2007 / Feature / Chris Hayes

Fumbling Florida Fumbling Florida

Have Democrats already blown the biggest swing state?

Nov 29, 2007 / Feature / Bob Moser

War Comes Home to Iowa War Comes Home to Iowa

The absence of a definitive antiwar candidate has divided the state's peace activists.

Nov 29, 2007 / Feature / Ari Berman

How the Peace Movement Can Win How the Peace Movement Can Win

For war opponents, the election year is a moment of great opportunity--and peril. The challenge is to leverage antiwar sentiment into a victory for peace.

Nov 29, 2007 / Feature / Tom Hayden

Noted. Noted.

Kevin Rudd's victory in Australia, Hillary's planted questions and remembering Alfred Knobler.

Nov 29, 2007 / The Editors

A Good Week for the Saudis A Good Week for the Saudis

Their boy Nawaz Sharif's back in Pakistan, oil prices are soaring and the Bushies continue to do their bidding.

Nov 28, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer

WGA: Picket and Click It WGA: Picket and Click It

As the strike continues, Writers Guild members have turned the Internet into an organizing tool.

Nov 26, 2007 / Feature / Christopher Lisotta

A Colder War A Colder War

Richard Rhodes's Arsenals of Folly, sequel to the book that defined the atomic age, captures the political struggle that brought it to an end.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

Deal Breakers Deal Breakers

Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

Debating for Dummies Debating for Dummies

At the Las Vegas Democratic debate, CNN Anchors Blitzer and Malvaux twisted legitimate questions into "gotcha" traps. There's gotta be a better way.

Nov 21, 2007 / Column / Eric Alterman

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