Stories by Ari Berman
Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation, covering national politics and the 2008 election, and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute.
Posted on Feb 16, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
In 2011, 196 individual donors provided nearly 80 percent of the money raised by super PACs.
Posted on Feb 4, 2012, Source: The Nation
Republicans—to protect and expand their gains from 2010— are diluting the minority vote in swing districts held by white Democrats.
Posted on Oct 31, 2011, Source: The Nation
Who's in the bipartisan group of Washington elites that focused for so long on deficits while the economy stagnated?
Posted on Jun 3, 2011, Source: The Nation
The big banks will do just about anything to maintain their power and defeat any oversight, and they've declared Elizabeth Warren Enemy Number One.
Posted on Apr 6, 2011, Source: The Nation
A mixture of Republican stubbornness and Democratic timidity has brought us to this point.
Posted on Apr 1, 2011, Source: The Nation
He's been called "the most powerful person in Washington that you haven't heard of."
Posted on Jan 7, 2011, Source: The Nation
Obama ushers a telecom lobbyist, chief architect of NAFTA and current Midwest chairman of JP Morgan Chase into the #2 job in the White House.
Posted on Dec 16, 2010, Source: The Nation
Nearly everybody agrees that the Senate is broken. The reason? Abuse of the filibuster, mostly by Republicans. Three Democratic senators are trying to fix that.
Posted on Dec 6, 2010, Source: The Nation
If this is how Obama plans to govern in the future, we’re in for a rough next two years.
Posted on Aug 20, 2009, Source: TheNation.com
Sens. Max Baucus and Charles Grassley have tried to shed Obama's health agenda in the name of bipartisanship.
Posted on Apr 3, 2009, Source: The Nation
The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled Friday that the state cannot bar gay couples from seeking to marry.
Posted on Oct 14, 2008, Source: The Nation
All they've got left is their perennial outrage.
Posted on Oct 14, 2008, Source: The Nation
He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain's advisers have advanced Putin's imperial ambitions and made good money on the side.
Posted on Oct 7, 2008, Source: The Nation
The McCain campaign is attacking Barack Obama for his minor ties in Chicago to former '60s radical Bill Ayers -- here's the real story.
Posted on Jul 1, 2008, Source: The Nation
The level of John McCain's ties to lobbyists has reached dizzying proportions.
Posted on Jun 12, 2008, Source: TheNation.com
McCain is out of touch with women's lives. Women know that he would be a dangerous choice for them.
Posted on Apr 7, 2008, Source: TheNation.com
Despite being "demoted" for pushing a free trade deal with Colombia that Hillary opposes, Penn is still plotting her campaign strategy.
Posted on Mar 13, 2008, Source: The Nation
He's been defended by AIPAC on his Israel views, made it clear that he's Christian, yet the media keeps swallowing right-wing lies.
Posted on Feb 27, 2008, Source: TheNation.com
No one won. No one lost. And Clinton needed more than a tie to change the course of this race.
Posted on Jan 7, 2008, Source: The Nation
Obama's surge in the polls is shaking up the candidates' constituencies.
Posted on Dec 31, 2007, Source: The Nation
"527s" in Iowa food-fight.
Posted on Oct 16, 2007, Source: The Nation
Giuliani is cozying up to Bush's big oil billionaires to fund his race for the Republican nomination.
Posted on May 18, 2007, Source: TheNation.com
If Hillary Clinton really wanted to curtail the influence of the powerful as she says in her speeches, she might start with the advisers to her own campaign, who represent some of the weightiest interests in corporate America.
Posted on Feb 7, 2007, Source: The Nation
Bush's military budget reveals his intent to keep the U.S. in Iraq as long as he can.
Posted on Jul 31, 2006, Source: TheNation.com
The congressional reaction to Hezbollah's attack on Israel and Israel's retaliatory bombing of Lebanon provide the latest example of why AIPAC's lock on US foreign policy in the Middle East must be examined.
Posted on Nov 11, 2005, Source: The Nation
Big Oil bigwigs were in the hot seat during Wednesday's rare Senate hearing on soaring oil industry profits -- but all we got out of them was hot air.
Posted on Sep 29, 2005, Source: TheNation.com
DeLay's indictment sent a shock wave through the GOP, which is already reeling from a swath of criminal and ethics investigations.
Posted on Sep 20, 2005, Source: TheNation.com
Thursday's hearings on an exit strategy for Iraq came one day after a grisly moment in Baghdad when at least a dozen attacks killed more than 160 people.
Posted on Aug 19, 2005, Source: The Nation
Behind Capitol Hill's Democratic war hawks like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton stands a 'strategic class' of political and media enablers.
Posted on May 31, 2005, Source: The Nation
A House amendment calling on President Bush to develop an exit strategy on Iraq received significant support but, as usual, very little media attention.
Posted on May 4, 2005, Source: The Nation
With Al Gore's progressive cable channel, what began as an effort to challenge the right-wing domination of the corporate media has transformed into a business proposition to lure a youth audience.
Posted on Mar 12, 2005, Source: The Nation
Saddam Hussein and his henchmen deserve due process and a fair trial. Will justice be served by U.S. and Iraqi authorities?
Posted on Mar 4, 2005, Source: The Nation
After dominating the party in the 1990s, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council is struggling to maintain its identity and influence.
