What Would Abbie Hoffman Have Thought Of The Flag Lapel Pin Debate?
Flag lapel pins are all the rage these days, but the battle over wearing the flag is older than you may have thought.
Flag lapel pins are all the rage these days, but the battle over wearing the flag is older than you may have thought.
Jon Soltz | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
You would assume that given all the whining over General Clark's legitimate point, that John McCain had some obvious answer to the question.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
McCain knows that the electorate wants America out of Iraq, even faster than Obama has proposed. He also knows that his ties to Bush's foreign policy are an albatross around his neck.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media
Reading The Kingmakers evokes feelings not dissimilar to watching Mike Gravel during debates: you sympathize with him, but can't help concluding that he's a few bricks short of a load.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Clark's recent comments about the relevance of McCain's service has generated enough controversy that the broader point about what kind of foreign policy experience we should look for in a president has been lost.
David Donnelly | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
McCain's policy ignores the problem with having a campaign run by corporate and foreign lobbyists: they are happy to abandon their lobbying work temporarily to get valuable chits with the potential future president.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
The opposition to the government of Mugabe just called for the African nations to send peacekeepers to Zimbabwe. Given that there is no peace there, the troops are in effect called to impose one.
Adele Stan | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
video provided by the Obama for President campaign Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared together at a campaign rally in Unity, New Hampshire, ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
I am ready to take a look at the map and do some electoral math. Now, we're still pretty far out from Election Day, but we've got to start somewhere.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Poverty trumps ethnicity as a factor determining voter preference: if the dollar continues to sink, voters will vote their pocketbooks rather than their prejudices and Obama will glide into the Oval Office.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
Hillary must turn to the man who defeated her for help paying back money her campaign owes, while her husband seems all but absent from the campaign. And few people, even Democrats, seem to really care.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
McCain flip-flops on torture, tax cuts, the religious right, Roe v. Wade, lobbyists, gay marriage, creationism, Iraq, talking to enemies, and just about any other subject you care to name.
John Ridley | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Karl Rove says Barack Obama is arrogant. Arrogant, of course, is a euphemism. In the monochromatic bunkers from which old-schoolers cling to power the true word they use is "uppity" when hurled at blacks.
Victor LaPorte | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
In an overwhelming show of support for our nation's veterans Thursday evening, 92 U.S. Senators voted in favor of the 21st Century GI Bill; also known...
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Fundamentally, the centuries-long battle between Progressives and the right wing has been a struggle between empowerment and domination.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Bush's term in office will be remembered for the precedents it set, particularly in relation to the presidential power, and the separation of powers between the three branches of U.S. government.
John K. Wilson | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
Dobson's attacks on Obama reveal what Dobson truly is: a right-wing nut with delusional interpretations of the Bible who unfortunately wields enormous influence within the Republican Party.
Amanda Becker | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home
At the dissolved state convention in April, Ron Paul was set to win and Convention Chairman Bob Beers even shook his hand, congratulating him. When the final tallies never came and the convention was disbanded, attendees cried foul.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Obama is raising more money via the Internet in small donations than any candidate in history. Hooray! But it is just as true that he is raising more money from fat cat donations than any candidate in history.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Seth Grahame-Smith | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
A black president means anything is possible. It means that that last little parcel of earth -- which for 232 years has been solely inhabited by white men -- is now open to people of all colors.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
We will turn out an army of 40,000 AFSCME activists to knock on doors, make phone calls, and talk with their co-workers and neighbors to produce an unprecedented turnout in the 2008 election.
Paige Donner | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green
Arianna was chosen to present the California Environmental Leadership Award to the LA Unified School District at Global Green's annual Millennium Awards held in Santa Monica June 14th.
Nick Nyhart | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
Obama now has an increased obligation to the American people that he will make overhauling our special interest-driven campaign finance apparatus for both Congress and the presidency a top priority.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton needs to start making some campaign appearances for Barack Obama and get on board the bandwagon in order to help this process along.
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Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics