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Making Prisoners Count
For legislative districts, inmates are considered part of communities where they’ll likely never live as free citizens.
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Four Notes on George McGovern
Farewell to a decent man who was never treyf like Nixon.
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Arlen Specter’s Guide to Party-Switching
Why changing ideological stripes isn’t always advantageous for your political career
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True the Vote’s True Agenda
The organization obsessed with voter fraud may sell itself as nonpartisan, but its Republican leanings are easy to spot.
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Watching the Debate with Paul Ryan’s Constituents
The debate got off to a bumpy start, with the bartender struggling to sync the audio between each of the bar’s four TVs. City Haul Lounge in Racine, Wisconsin isn’t the type of drinking hole where you’d typically find a crowd straining to hear politicians gab. A dive bar in the true Midwestern sense, City […]
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Will the Munger Kids Kill California’s Schools?
California’s version of the Koch brothers teams up to defeat Jerry Brown’s initiative to tax the rich and save public education.
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Debate Prep with Joe
Jennifer Granholm talks with the Prospect about helping Biden prep for his 2008 verbal sparring match with Sarah Palin.
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Barry Commoner and the Dream of a Liberal Third Party
Obituaries of the environmental populist have dismissed his 1980 presidential run as a quirky personal misadventure. It was more than that.
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Obama’s Other War
What ails the president? The intractability of the political and capitalist forces that make curing the nation’s greatest ills virtually impossible.