Hillary and her supporters aren't giving up on her arguments that she's the most electable candidate because she's won among blue-collar whites. She told USA Today in an article published today:

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview...

As voters went to the polls today to choose between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, there was an overlooked peril facing all voters this year: a failing election system and GOP-led vote suppression. All these obstacles undermine fair and accurate voting, leading...

The Economist recently reported, along with other news outlets, how a women's organization whose key leaders were loosely affiliated with the Clinton campaign was making deceptive phone calls to black voters designed to fool them into believing that they weren't registered. Last Wednesday, facing mounting outrage from...

While remembering the life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King, it's worth noting that Republican operatives and the Bush administration's Department of Justice have turned back the clock on civil rights. They have created a new set of Jim Crow-like policies and strategies with a still-active...

Since the resignations of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others involved in the U.S. Attorneys and Civil Rights Division scandals, you might expect that the Justice Department would come clean and show a new commitment to voting rights.

Think again. At recent hearings before a House Judiciary subcommittee, new...

All the smear tactics aimed at Barack Obama appear to be working with key segments of the voters who support Hillary -- no matter how false the charges. The Pew Foundation reports today, while noting that Obama is weathering the Rev. Wright storm:

White Democrats who hold...

Trying to borrow a page from Obama's success with stirring videos, her supporters have cobbled together their own would-be inspiring video to reach that all-important youth segment of the voters on You Tube. See Hillary's backers create their own anthem, "Hillary4U&Me," complete with a "cool" Prince-like title...

While conservatives are arguing whether John McCain is conservative enough for them, they're not doing anything to reverse the course of one of the most destructive legacies of the Bush administration: the Republican war on science. To the demotions and muzzling of global warming scientists, we...

Hillary Clinton launched yesterday a new attack ad claiming Sen. Barack Obama supports the worst proposals of the GOP because he referred to Republicans as having run as the "party of ideas." To Clinton's critics, this seems to be another tactic borrowing heavily from the Karl Rove-style...

Hillary Clinton, who is proud of having stood up against the GOP's attack machine, appears to have borrowed a few vote-suppressing tricks from Karl Rove and his ilk, her critics charge. UPDATE: The latest tactic , the lawsuit by supporters of Hillary to block on-site voting...

The primary talking points from the GOP on the SCHIP bill scheduled for a veto override vote this week are that many well-to-do middle-class families with private health insurance are getting coverage, rather than the the poor who deserve it. Those false claims were part of the...

If you're outraged about the President's veto of the SCHIP bill being upheld by obstructionist GOP
legislators, there are two things you can do now: 1) call one of the GOP legislators noted in this previous article at 1-800-828-0498 through Families USA, and 2) join other...

Republicans are confident that they'll have enough votes this week to support the President's veto of the SCHIP program, and Democrats are on the verge of conceding defeat on this bill. But you've got a chance to show that the conventional wisdom is wrong, because some GOP...

While President Bush and his GOP allies are railing against the specter of socialized medicine and the high cost of the SCHIP program, the Bush administration has done relatively little to crack down on billions in corporate drug fraud that bilks our government health programs, as noted in...

With pundits evaluating the efforts of Edwards and others to go after Hillary, progressives may want to go beyond the headlines to learn more about the real records of the contenders. They should discover one of the most definitive and useful sources for the actual voting records and public...

The Democratic leadership, apparently under pressure from the ACLU and other concerned advocates, has postponed marking up a draconian, permanent FISA bill next week, so that's the good news stemming from news and blogging alerts such as the one I posted earlier today: "10 Days Left to stop...

Two strategic-minded bloggers, Matt Stoller of Open Left, and Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com, have important posts about the fast-moving train wreck of the Democrats in Congress acting in the next week or so to make permanent the warrantless eavesdropping they passed in early August, but this, time,

The labor movement is taking the expected smears from the right-wing that it's an archaic relic of the industrial past. National Review's Henry Payne derides the "anachronistic union cultures which hold that guaranteed jobs and benefits are an entitlement."

But with half of all people who don't...

The current Democratic weakness in opposing Bush's war could have fatal long-term consequences for the party -- as well as for our troops -- now that Democrats have largely abandoned efforts to push for firm timelines on withdrawal. (Today, The Washington Post reports, this cave-in to...

The Bush administration has begun a full-court press for continuing the Iraq war with exaggerated and fabricated claims of progress in Iraq. But the Center for American Progress throws cold water on those current and forthcoming claims with a thoughtful series of statistics and questions for Congress when...