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    February 15, 2012

  • Hotheaded, Flat-Footed & Powerful

    by Scott McLemee
    Reviewed: The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work by Belén Fernández (Verso, 240 pp., $16.95). The press enjoys "power without responsibility": So goes Rudyard Kipling's classic coinage. Though meant as a denunciation, Read »

  • Voters’ Fate and the Buckeye State

    by Lou Dubose
    Did the Ohio Legislature almost steal the 2012 election with a law passed in 2011? The past three presidential elections pivoted on voter turnout in Ohio. In 2000, George W. Bush wouldn’t have made it as far as the Supreme Court decision in his favor if Read »

  • How Voter ID Laws Suppress Registration Drives and Block Democratic Votes

    by Lou Dubose
    The movement to save electoral democracy by requiring states to enact voter-identification laws began with a whimper. In 2005, Mark “Thor” Hearne, a lawyer who had worked for the Bush-Cheney political campaign, founded the American Center for Voting R Read »
    • February 1, 2012

  • It’s a Dry Heat (and Getting Hotter)

    by Osha Gray Davidson
    Reviewed: A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, by William deBuys (Oxford, 384 pp., $27.95). The old saying about Southwestern weather — that it’s a dry heat — describes both a blessing and a curse, Read »

  • Will a Perrymandered State Determine Who Controls the Next Congress?

    by Lou Dubose
    Redistricting is always a blood sport. In 2011, the decennial redrawing of political boundaries in Texas was bloodier than usual. After the 2010 census, the state was awarded four new Congressional seats, to reflect an increase in population. How those se Read »

  • Texas Metastatic

    by Lou Dubose
    The state of Texas has failed in its collateral attack on the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But decisions in three federal courts sorting through redistricting the bills the state’s Republican Legislature passed last year could determine how much protection t Read »

Current Issue

Editorial: The Fight for Voting Rights Has Just Begun
By Michael Waldman

As is well known, the 2012 election saw a national drive to restrict the ability to vote. Citizens fought back. By Election Day, almost every harsh new law was blocked, blunted, postponed, or repealed. Count that a true win for democracy. But let’s not be satisfied with just winning defensive f 

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For Bobby Jindal, April Was the Cruelest Month
By Stephanie Grace

It’s become an article of faith in louisiana that Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has his eye on a bigger prize. Jindal consistently, if winkingly, denies it. But in Baton Rouge, his national ambition is part of the landscape. That’s worked out fine for the one-time Rhodes Scholar and precocious 

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Letters: 'The earth is doomed'
By Washington Spectator

Warning Ignored Re: “Environmentalism on the Offense for a Change,” The Washington Spectator, March 1. I was a supporter of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for many years. I can no longer support it since I’m now on Social Security. These scientists have been warning u 

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Inbox: The Leveretts’ Brave Book
By Washington Spectator

The authors of Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, support the Islamic Republic of Iran, a fundamentalist totalitarian regime. Their book (reviewed by Chase Madar in “Obama in Tehran,” March 2013 

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