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.
All they've got left is their perennial outrage.
Posted on Oct 14, 2008
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 14, 2008
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 Oct 7, 2008
The level of John McCain's ties to lobbyists has reached dizzying proportions.
Posted on Jul 1, 2008
McCain is out of touch with women's lives. Women know that he would be a dangerous choice for them.
Posted on Jun 12, 2008
Despite being "demoted" for pushing a free trade deal with Colombia that Hillary opposes, Penn is still plotting her campaign strategy.
Posted on Apr 7, 2008
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 Mar 13, 2008
No one won. No one lost. And Clinton needed more than a tie to change the course of this race.
Posted on Feb 27, 2008
Obama's surge in the polls is shaking up the candidates' constituencies.
Posted on Jan 7, 2008
"527s" in Iowa food-fight.
Posted on Dec 31, 2007
Giuliani is cozying up to Bush's big oil billionaires to fund his race for the Republican nomination.
Posted on Oct 16, 2007
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 May 18, 2007
Bush's military budget reveals his intent to keep the U.S. in Iraq as long as he can.
Posted on Feb 7, 2007
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 Jul 31, 2006
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 Nov 11, 2005
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 29, 2005
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 Sep 20, 2005
Behind Capitol Hill's Democratic war hawks like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton stands a 'strategic class' of political and media enablers.
Posted on Aug 19, 2005
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 31, 2005
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 May 4, 2005
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 12, 2005
After dominating the party in the 1990s, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council is struggling to maintain its identity and influence.
Posted on Mar 4, 2005
