Adam Doster, In These Times. July 7, 2008. Obama's experience as an organizer taught him a crucial lesson: Activating underrepresented communities can dramatically alter close elections.
Allison H. Fine, Personal Democracy Forum. July 3, 2008. Historians will undoubtedly consider our current era of voting machines the technological equivalent of the 8-track tape machine.
Cristina Page, RH Reality Check. June 25, 2008. It's pro-choice policies that result in dramatic declines in the need for abortion, and it's the pro-choice candidates who truly value life.
Michael Waldman, Brennan Center for Justice. June 12, 2008. The Electoral College is an affront to basic democracy, warping competition and subverting political equality -- even when it works.
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Brennan Center for Justice. March 29, 2008. When it comes to Illinois's political contributions laws, there's much more to the Tony Rezko drama than meets the eye.
Dana Goldstein, RH Reality Check. March 26, 2008. Anti-choice activists claim that Obama voted against protecting infants. In fact, he cast his votes for choice and for women's health.
Patricia J. Williams, The Nation. March 19, 2008. It would be truly tragic if John McCain strolls into the White House while we argue over who has it worse, black men or white women.
Erika Falk, In These Times. March 15, 2008. The mainstream media treats female presidential candidates as novelties instead of serious contenders -- just like they did 100 years ago.
Jessica Valenti, The Nation. March 10, 2008. Instead of calls for togetherness, feminists should use this election as a chance to learn from each other and to create the movement we want.
Pam Spaulding, Pandagon AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. February 28, 2008. If a fertilized egg is a person vested with full rights and privileges, can post-coital women at least drive in the carpool lane?
Katha Pollitt, The Nation. February 27, 2008. Pundits may be writing McCain off as a grumpy old man, but in a race against a black man or a white woman, his identity could be the trump card.
Kavita N. Ramdas, The Nation. February 26, 2008. Despite general talk about race and gender in the election, there has been shamefully little emphasis on the real problems of global inequality.
Karen Stabiner, Huffington Post. February 17, 2008. If Obama wants to prove himself as the truly progressive candidate, he shouldn't fall back on the oldest gender clichés in the book.
Sara Davidson, AlterNet AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. February 11, 2008. It's time for a grassroots uprising to demand national popular elections, both for the nominees and the president.
Alan Dechert, AlterNet. February 10, 2008. A Democratic Party election using open-source software proves that honest, verifiable electronic elections are possible.
Jill Filipovic, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. February 7, 2008. Identity influences every voter, and progressives need to stop adopting right-wing rhetoric when discussing race and gender.
