Politics

Digging in the Right Place

David Sirota

Meaningless in Michigan

If voters in this economically ravaged state want their votes in today's primary contest to count, it's the GOP or nothing

Paul Berg

Pollsters and Puppets

Joel Bleifuss

Mr./Ms. Change Goes to Washington

Candidates promises break from Bush, but how far will they go?

David Moberg

Stay Classy, Huckabee

David Sirota

Dropping Out of Electoral College

Maryland is the first state to pass the National Popular Vote (NPV) into law, and several others are right behind

Martha Biondi

The Democrats’ Path to Victory

The public demand for progressive politics is growing stronger

David Moberg

Primary Importance

For leaders of interest groups and social movements, power comes from being able to show elected officials that you know who, where, and how numerous these hell-or-high-water voters are within your ranks, and within their districts, at all times

Hans Johnson

Hounding the Bush Dogs

Meet the candidates who are taking on conservative Democrats

Adam Doster

iPower to the People

The perils and promise of point-and-click politics

Jessica Clark

Talking American Democracy in China

Chinese democracy does not involve much voting, awareness of how the government works, information about politics, or what I like to call "facts," yet the Chinese government claims to be democratic, and many of my Chinese friends will agree that this is true

Mike Levy

Tax and Spend? Hell, Yeah!

Why does anyone need $50 million a year? What do you do with it--buy five houses in Aspen like Enron's Ken Lay did?

Susan J. Douglas

Rudy Guiliani: Criminal or Liar?

An investigation into Guiliani's claims of familiarity with "intensive questioning" techniques

Lindsay Beyerstein

The Left’s Identity Crisis

What does it mean to be a progressive in 2007? What do we stand for? What do we believe in?

Ken Brociner

A Campaign of Ones Own

Connie Schultz talks about her column, feminism, endorsing Hillary, and her lovely husband, Ohio senator Sherrod Brown

Chelsea Ross

Running, With Scissors

The Republican drive to cut off voters is the sleeper issue of 2008

Hans Johnson

Obama’s in the Eye of the Beholder

Can the junior senator from Illinois be both a stalwart progressive and a post-ideological unifier?

David Moberg

Trending Toward Inanity

Mark Penn's new book, Microtrends, is so epically awful that it could take the entire polling industry down with it

Ezra Klein