Hillary Does the Right Thing
Katha Pollitt : Convention 08
Will the Hillary diehards follow her lead and support Barack Obama?
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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.
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Clinton Under Fire for Planting Fake Questions
Ari Melber : Presidential Election 2008
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign came under fire over the weekend for planting fake questions at town hall events--and the netroots are on to her.
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Gender Card: Hillary Shuffles the Deck
Susan Faludi : Presidential Election 2008
Mainstream media pundits claim she's playing the victim. In fact, she's running like a man, playing out a national fantasy to rescue America.
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The New GOP Means Business
Forget Values Voters. With Bushism discredited and mainstream Republicans looking for candidates with business savvy and competence, Democrats may be facing far more formidable foes than they imagined.
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Hillary's Mystery Money Men
Russ Baker & Adam Federman : Lobbies/PACs
The men behind the money that made Bush now want to claim the Clinton campaign. Is someone cooking the books at Hillary Inc.?
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Her McGovern Moment
Hillary Clinton has recognized the value of courting antiwar voters.
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How Different Are the Top Three Dems?
Clinton, Edwards, Obama: behind the branding, they're more similar than you think.
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Clinton and Obama: Running on Ambien
Barbara Ehrenreich : Barack Obama
Can America survive the tedium of its black and female candidates?
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For Hillary, There's No Such Thing as Dirty Money
Nicholas von Hoffman : Presidential Election 2008
Will her talent for raising campaign cash turn into a liability?
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Democrats Sizzle in Iowa
It felt a bit like Election Day in Iowa this weekend, as Democratic candidates at Senator Tom Harkin's Steak Fry served up appetizers of the campaign to come.
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Hillary Pushes the Button
What in the world was Clinton thinking when she attacked Obama for pledging not to use nuclear weapons in the hunt for Osama bin Laden?
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Hillary's Labor Gambit
Ari Berman : Presidential Election 2008
Senator Clinton has a pro-worker voting record. So why are unionists skeptical?
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Who Is Hillary Clinton?
Barbara Ehrenreich : Electoral Politics
A closer look at Hillary Clinton's career reveals a technocratic centrist whose political ambition might trump any progressive policy promises.
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What Women See When They See Hillary
Lakshmi Chaudhry : Feminism & Women
Some of the same feminists who loved Hillary as First Lady are now fiercely opposing her bid for the White House.
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Hillary's Political Horror Story
Nicholas von Hoffman : Iraq War
A new biography reveals that the Senator from New York--and a host of other Democrats--did not get all the facts before casting a crucial vote to invade Iraq.
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Hillary Inc.
Ari Berman : Electoral Politics
Clinton vows to defend Americans against the privileged and powerful, but her ties to big business compromise her populist promises.
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Spinning Hillary Centrist
Ari Berman : Electoral Politics
How can Hillary Clinton maintain her populist credentials when Mark Penn, her chief pollster and campaign strategist, also represents the interests of some of America's largest corporations?
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Senator Inevitable
William Greider : Electoral Politics
Nothing personal, but Hillary Clinton is a candidate of the past.
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Hillary the Hawk
Robert Scheer : Electoral Politics
Let's face it. Hillary Clinton is not a peace candidate.
2006
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HRC: Can't Get No Respect
Katha Pollitt : Electoral Politics
If people keep making sexist attacks against Hillary Clinton, I may just have to vote for her. That means you, Elizabeth Edwards!
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Stop the Waffling
Robert Scheer : Joseph Lieberman
Democrats should take a page from the GOP playbook and back candidates willing to stand up for their values, rather than wasting their money, time and votes on those who won't.
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Hillary's Hypocrisy
Hillary Clinton's dissembling on Iraq has become a fatal embarassment for her presidential ambitions and for anyone who looks to her for leadership.
2005
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Brand Hillary
Greg Sargent : Democratic Party
Crafting a politics uniquely her own, she's making her mark on the Democratic Party.
2003
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Still Clinton's Show?
William Greider : Bill Clinton
If the Democratic Party is to find a sense of purpose, it must get beyond Bill Clinton's influence.
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