In our September 1 issue, Lou Dubose reveals the ways in which Republicans are manipulating voting laws in Ohio. Below, Dubose recalls the restrictive laws passed by 11 other states since 2008. Since Barack Obama won the 2008 election, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin have passed […]

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In our September 1 issue, John Stoehr reports on working-class perceptions of Mitt Romney. But what do Romney and his cohorts think of the people who work for them? Financial writer Josh Kosman devotes a chapter of The Buyout of America to Bain Capital, the company that Mitt Romney founded. The passages below are a snapshot […]

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For almost two years, the Ohio General Assembly has pursued a singular objective with the relentlessness that defined Melville’s most celebrated character: imposing restrictions on the state’s early voting laws. Not even when the legislators lost did they lose. When activists gathered 300,000 signatures to stay a law that imposed restrictions on absentee voting, legislators […]

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There’s a very simple reason why Republican Mitt Romney is not going to win in November with the support of working-class Americans, white or otherwise. Unlike predecessors Bob Dole, George W. Bush, and John McCain, Romney is a rich businessman, not a career politician. To the working class, he looks like a boss.

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Reviewed: Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution, by Linda Hirshman (Harper, 464 pp., $27.99). Wear at least three “gender-appropriate” garments to the bar or risk a police bust. Get booted from the Army for loving a consenting adult. Marry your beloved and keep paying the IRS as though you were single. The spectrum of humiliations and civil […]

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