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  • There is nothing in Obama's record to suggest that he plans any radical departures from the mainstream of the American foreign policy establishment. June 18, 2008

  • The reaction to former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's memoir speaks volumes about the crisis of the Republican Party. June 6, 2008

  • Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was designed to rerun the battles of the 1990s rather than face today's different political environment. May 20, 2008

  • A SocialistWorker.org columnist examines the conventional wisdom about the Democratic campaign during an election night that may have finished Hillary Clinton. May 7, 2008

  • The energy wasted on campaign nonsense should lead us to ask the question the media avoid: Who are the candidates actually in touch with? April 25, 2008

  • Whoever the Democratic nominee is will take a huge fundraising and business endorsement advantage into the November election. April 11, 2008

  • If Rev. Jeremiah Wright used angry rhetoric, perhaps it's because there's still a lot in American society to be angry about. March 28, 2008

  • A specter is haunting the Democrats in 2008--the specter of the party's 1968 convention. At least that's how some pundits are putting it. March 14, 2008

  • Just because an organization has "democratic" in its name doesn't mean it functions according to the barest concepts of democracy. February 22, 2008

  • If current projections hold, 2008 has the potential of being equivalent for the Democrats what 1980 was for the Republicans. February 8, 2008

  • When you look beyond his inspirational rhetoric and profile as a candidate of "change," what does Barack Obama actually stand for? January 11, 2008