Politics

Election Protection 2008 Primary Report: Looking Ahead to November
National Campaign for Fair Elections - Jul 04 (Special Report)
In this unprecedented primary season, Americans have once again turned to Election Protection to ensure their votes count... More »

Please, Please, Reporters with Brains
Talking Points Memo - By Josh Marshall - Jul 04 (Blog Post)
For the McCain campaign to put out a memo to reporters claiming that Obama has adopted McCain's policy only shows that his advisors believe that a sizable percentage of the political press is made up... More »

We Want You...to be a Poll Worker
Brennan Center for Justice - By Renée Paradis, Theresa J. Lee - Jul 04 (Opinion)
When you work in election reform, often at the end of a panel discussion or a presentation you've just given, you'll look out at a sea of people you've thoroughly disheartened as to the health of the... More »

A Conversation With Barack Obama
Rolling Stone - By Jann S. Wenner - Jul 04 (Interview)
Shortly after Barack Obama claimed victory in the fight for the Democratic nomination, I joined him aboard his chartered 757 campaign plane as a member of the press corps... More »

The War Over Patriotism
Time - By Peter Beinart - Jul 04 (Special Report)
What both campaigns understand is that American patriotism wears two faces: a patriotism of affirmation, which appeals more to conservatives, and a patriotism of dissent, particularly cherished by... More »

Passing the torch from Bush to McCain without getting burned
New York Times - By Sheryl Gay Stolberg - Jul 04 (Special Report)
Convention planners, the White House and the McCain campaign are wrestling with how to choreograph a proper sendoff for Mr... More »

1776 to 2008
Los Angeles Times - Jul 04 (Editorial)
The Declaration of Independence, which we honor today, is replete with the internal tensions and contradictions of 18th century America, a paean to equality written by a slaveholder, a proclamation... More »

Is Barack A Typical Pol?
New Republic - By Noam Scheiber - Jul 04 (Opinion)
To believe McCain can nonetheless get away with labeling his opponent a typical pol without having the charge boomerang on him reflects a gross misunderstanding of campaign journalism... More »

Disaster Capitalism, State of Extortion
The Nation - By Naomi Klein - Jul 03 (Opinion)
...today's preferred method of reshaping the world in the interest of multinational corporations is to systematically exploit the state of fear and disorientation that accompanies moments of great... More »

McCain: Noun, Verb, Terrorism
American Prospect - By Paul Waldman - Jul 03 (Editorial)
McCain continues to embody Bush's worst impulses on terrorism, not least his stubborn refusal to grasp even the most basic facts about terrorist organizations... More »

Preparing the Battlefield
New Yorker - By Seymour Hirsch - Jun 30 (Special Report)
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and... More »

The Brass Ring
New Yorker - By Connie Bruck - Jun 29 (Special Report)
Last October, Sheldon Adelson, the gaming multibillionaire, accompanied a group of Republican donors to the White House to meet with George W. Bush. They wanted to talk to the President about Israel... More »

An Attack That Came Out of the Ether
Washington Post - By Matthew Mosk - Jun 28 (News Report)
(A) biographical sketch of Barack Obama that has become one of the most effective -- and baseless -- Internet attacks of the 2008 presidential season... More »

The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency
AlterNet - By Brad Reed - Jul 01 (News Analysis)
In a lot of ways, choosing the Bush administration's 10 greatest moments -- disastrous failures, all -- is about as pointless as picking out your 10 least favorite hemorrhoids: More »

Election Day
P.O.V. / PBS - By Katy Chevigny - Jul 02 (Special Report)
(VIDEO - 74 minutes) Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a triumph of documentary storytelling, P... More »

Cheney's Fingerprints
Washington Post - By Dan Froomkin - Jul 01 (News Report)
Seymour Hersh's latest New Yorker article describes an expansion of covert operations inside Iran and provides more evidence of Vice President Cheney's zeal to address the Iranian nuclear threat --... More »

Florida's 2008 Election Landscape Looking More Like 2000
AlterNet - By Steven Rosenfeld - Jun 28 (News Report)
A court ruling means processing errors by local election officials can be cause to reject new voters. More »

McCain Pledges Allegiance to NAFTA
Huffington Post - By Robert L. Borosage - Jul 02 (Blog Post)
Saint John doesn't sully his rhetoric with these unseemly realities. He seems to want to make trade policy a centerpiece of his election campaign, and doing so will surely help him raise some dough... More »

Barack Obama and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments
FindLaw - By John Dean - Jul 01 (Opinion)
Not everyone is aware of the statement that Obama made to Will Bunch, or the reality that there is no immunity from criminal prosecution under the FISA amendments... More »

Ex-Agent Says CIA Ignored Iran Facts
Washington Post - By Joby Warrick - Jul 01 (News Report)
A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a... More »