Hillary Does the Right Thing
Katha Pollitt : Convention 08
Will the Hillary diehards follow her lead and support Barack Obama?
2008
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Likable Enough for VP
Robert Scheer : Barack Obama
If Obama's looking for a right-of-center running-mate, Hillary's the best option out there.
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Iron My Skirt
Katha Pollitt : Presidential Election 2008
Once the bitterness of the present moment has faded, people will recognize they owe Hillary Clinton a standing ovation, even if they can't stand her.
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Young Hillary Clinton
60Frames : Presidential Election 2008
Is this the first time Hillary Clinton has refused to drop out of a race? Check out this never-before-seen footage of a Young Clinton and Obama.
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Hillary's Gift to Women
Barbara Ehrenreich : Presidential Election 2008
She's managed to smash the myth of innate female moral superiority.
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The Empire Strikes Barack
Humanitainment : Presidential Election 2008
Can the entire narrative of the last few months of the Democratic nomination fight be found in the second Star Wars film?
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Gas Tax Holiday (from Reality)
Talking Points Memo : Presidential Election 2008
As far as Hillary Clinton is concerned, if you disagree with her gas tax plan, you're an elitist.
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Race to the Bottom
Betsy Reed : Presidential Election 2008
How Hillary Clinton's campaign played the race card--and drove a wedge into the feminist movement.
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Hillary's Iran Insanity
Talking Points Memo : Iran
How did Hillary go from being simply hawkish on Iran to becoming completely hellbent on its destruction?
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Mark Penn Must Go
The Editors : Presidential Election 2008
Mark Penn's quasi-demotion is too little, too late.
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The Working-Class Vote in Ohio
Brett Story & VideoNation : US Politics & Government
What issues matter to Ohio's blue-collar voters? JoAnn Wypijewski reports from the campaign trail.
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Postcards From Ohio
JoAnn Wypijewski : Ohio
The white working-class vote is on the line--so is the myth of Clinton-era good times.
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Candidate in a Corner
John Nichols : Presidential Election 2008
After the losses of February, Hillary Clinton must start March with wins that restore her delegate lead.
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Obama, Clinton and the War
Robert Scheer : Barack Obama
Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Obama sheds some needed light on Hillary's hawkishness and the real differences between the candidates.
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Black Women Talk Barack
Amy Alexander : Feminism & Women
It's like one big family squabble among feminists, activists and post-civil-rights-era voters.
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Viva la Restauración
Christopher Hayes : Latinos
Latinos supported Hillary Clinton in the chaotic Nevada caucuses, but how much do her policies support them?
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Bill and Hill's Dangerous Game
Nicholas von Hoffman : Bill Clinton
The Clintons cannot compete with the enthusiasm Obama sets off so they are trying to destroy it. They just may succeed--but at an awful price.
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Racial Politics, Clinton Style
Ari Berman : Barack Obama
No matter who injected the issue of race and gender into the Democratic presidential campaign, it's not going away.
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The Weepy Witch & the Secret Muslim
Katha Pollitt : Barack Obama
If the campaign becomes a competition between race and gender, the winner will be whichever white man the GOP nominates.
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Hillary's Real MLK Problem
Barbara Ehrenreich : Civil Rights Movement
"Change" is this year's Democratic battle cry, but if you don't know how it happens, you're not likely to make it happen yourself.
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The Race Is On
The Editors : Electoral Politics
Throw polls and pundits out the window: the race will be decided not by kingmakers but by the voters themselves.
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American Pie
Patricia J. Williams : Barack Obama
Don't let the media or the right-wing spinmeisters reduce our first-ever serious black and female presidential candidates to stereotypes.
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Play the Class Card
Robert Scheer : Presidential Election 2008
Hillary Clinton may claim that her gender makes her the unmistakeable agent of change--but what's radical about voting for a corporate lawyer?
2007
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Too Much of a Bad Thing
Nicholas von Hoffman : Campaign Finance
Hillary Clinton's touting her expertise over Obama--but is experience at political attack, mega-fundraising and cronyism really all that desirable?
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War Comes Home to Iowa
The absence of a definitive antiwar candidate has divided the state's peace activists.
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)
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