The Editors

Kate Sheppard reports from the trail: The question for months has been whether Barack Obama can appeal to the working-class, white demographic that has been Hillary Clinton‘s stronghold. It propelled her to victory in Ohio, and has appeared to remain solidly behind her throughout the primary. But with nearly three weeks still to go before […]

Sarah Posner looks at Mike Huckabee‘s future in evangelical Republican politics. Trinity Broadcasting Network begins their third annual “Praise-A-Thon.” McCain‘s advisers describe the New Deal in (literally) hellish terms. John Hagee deals with his anti-Catholic past. And the Supreme Court faces down a public display of the Ten Commandments. Again. Read the full FundamentaList and […]

Robert Reich examines the twisted logic of bailing out financial institutions that are “too big to fail:” The reason they’re too big to fail is they’ve borrowed so much from me and from you — from our pension funds and money-market funds — that if they went bust, our savings would disappear. Even the danger […]

Mori Dinauer interviews an anonymous superdelegate: Mori Dinauer: Have you been contacted personally by either the Clinton or Obama campaign? Mr. Super: I have been contacted by both, actually, on a regular basis. They both have been very professional and very gracious. The life of a DNC member is very average. We’re not as exciting […]

Paul Waldman argues that despite the quadrennial obsession with presidential candidates’ character, the press never really asks the tough questions or learns from their mistakes: Just look at the last eight years. Nearly everything that has made the current presidency such a catastrophe could have been foreseen in 2000 with a clear look at the […]

Kai Wright is joining us as a guest columnist for two weeks. This week, he considers the current state of AIDS research: …There was no mistaking the disappointment in Anthony Fauci’s remarks to the 300 scientists he brought together in Bethesda, Maryland, this week. On the heels of one the biggest setbacks AIDS research has […]

From our April issue: Chris Mooney reviews David Michaels‘ Doubt is Their Product and uncovers a cottage industry of scientific deceivers: For Michaels, these companies are the scientific equivalent of Arthur Andersen. He calls their work “mercenary” science, drawing an implicit analogy with private military firms like Blackwater. If the companies can get the raw […]

Today at TAP Online Gershom Gorenberg recounts the recent hounding of Barack Obama for the supposed anti-Israel stance of his informal adviser Robert Malley, a story that stretches back to the close of the Clinton administration: There’s more at work here than the usual, nearly boring, attempts to slime a liberal candidate as anti-Israel for […]

From our April issue: Robert Borosage sees the populist writing on the wall for 2008: John Edwards is gone, but his populist rhetoric and agenda hold center stage in the Democratic presidential race. The Democratic race has come down to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, two relatively cautious moderates, tutored by Citi-group’s Robert Rubin and […]

From our April issue: Robert Kuttner notes that regardless of who the next president is, they will need to soundly reject 30 years of entrenched free-market ideology if they wish to ameliorate the looming economic crisis: After the Great Crash, it took three agonizing years before the nation had the good fortune to elect Roosevelt, […]