What’s the matter with Wisconsin?
Dean Bakopoulos writes for Salon: “A new kind of class warfare is emerging in the Heartland, and it is one the Republicans have been so good at orchestrating in order to win elections.”
issue: Voter Mobilization
Twenty years on, ‘Year of the Woman’ fades
Karen Tumulty reports for The Washington Post: “At a moment when gender politics is thick in the air, it is a good time to reconsider another spring, exactly 20 years ago, when an unprecedented wave of women set their sights on Washington. That was the e…
Ron Paul’s Strange Bedfellows
Katha Pollitt writes for The Nation: “What is it with progressive mancrushes on right-wing Republicans? For years, until he actually got nominated, John McCain was the recipient of lefty smooches equaled only by those bestowed upon Barack Obama before he…
Elizabeth Warren Apparently A ‘Hypocrite’ For Believing That Others Could Be As Affluent As She Is
Jason Linkins for Huffington Post: “If you’re trying to keep up with the themes that underpin the GOP attacks on Elizabeth Warren, well, good luck to you. Way back when, her affiliation with Harvard got her branded an elitist. More recently, her support…
2 women accused Herman Cain of inappropriate behavior
Jonathan Martin & Maggie Hagerman & Anna Palmer & Kenneth P. Vogel for POLITICO: “During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior a…