New Politics

Civil Society is the battleground for New Politics in the UK

Indra Adnan | Posted 05.25.2011

Indra Adnan

It's a puzzling time for politics in the UK. All the familiar fault lines have fractured to create new patterns of connection between old enemies, lea...

Why Chase The Center When You Can Rendezvous with It?

Darin Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Darin Murphy

The movement that Obama created launched his campaign to a higher altitude than the conventional path. Now he needs to stay on message, keep making sense and let the center catch up with him.

Hey Kids, Let's Fire Steny Hoyer

Marshall Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

Marshall Grossman

So why, when in more and more districts, a vote to fund the war is a greater threat to incumbency than a vote to end it, do Hoyer and Pelosi still carry Bush's brackish water?

More Evidence of An Obama Bounce, Other Thoughts on The Fall Election

Simon Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Simon Rosenberg

There should no longer be any doubts about Obama's ability to put together a winning coalition; polls show that this electorate will look very different from any pollsters have seen before.