“Major American Presidential candidate publicly snubbed American Muslims and Arabs who wanted to support his campaign.”  You’ve probably seen headlines like this in recent weeks.
But here’s the thing: this headline could have been written about presidential elections in 1984 and 1988 as well as the current one, here in 2008.
Which candidates shunned the support of [...]

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John McCain is in Santa Barbara, California, today.  He’s there to promote his latest stupid idea: drilling for oil on California beaches.  McCain is apparently politically tone-deaf enough to push for more oil rigs in Santa Barbara, where a massive oil spill in 1969 helped to inaugurate the environmental protection movement. 
Analysts say that [...]

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In Detroit this week, environmental leader Al Gore reminded us that elections matter.
“In looking back over the last eight years, I can tell you that we have already learned one important fact since the year 2000: take it from me, elections matter. If you think the next appointments to our Supreme Court are important, you [...]

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Already, pundits and political scientists have begun to parse exactly how the junior Democratic Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, managed one of the greatest upsets in the history of US presidential politics to win the nomination. There will be county-by-county delegate maps and charts and timelines. The truth of exactly what caused the [...]

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