How Third-Party Candidates Could Screw Up The Midterms: A Primer
Can't get enough of this year's possible spoilers? Check out TNR's slideshow of some of the best (and most bizarre) third-party candidates who could sway some of the country's biggest elections. READ MORE >>
NY Gubernatorial Debate: More Fringe Candidates, Please!
Is Joe Manchin As Conservative As He Seems?
One-Armed Midgets, Rejoice!
Did The White House Kill The Climate Bill?
In this week's New Yorker, Ryan Lizza has a long, truly excellent reported piece on how the climate bill died in the Senate. The big question is to what extent the White House deserves the blame: READ MORE >>
CT Senate Debate: Is It Too Late To Pick Another Candidate?
Up From Abramoff
“God’s not looking for perfect people—there’s only been one perfect person in the history of the human race,” Ralph Reed tells the crowd at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington. It’s the weekend of September 11, and Reed is holding the inaugural conference for his new Faith and Freedom Coalition (FFC), which is aiming to mobilize evangelicals the way the Christian Coalition did in the 1990s. “God’s looking for broken people,” he says, “humble and contrite people.” READ MORE >>
Welcome to the Age of Seawalls
Over on the main site, Steve Nash has a great piece about how cities in the United States are preparing for sea-level rise. The picture's pretty bleak. Most states and localities aren't doing much planning at all. And when they are taking action, they're actually making things worse. Here's a snippet: READ MORE >>
Floating Nukes Of The Day
It's hard to find a news story that better encapsulates the future of energy/environmental politics than this one. Russia's currently building eight floating nuclear power stations along its north coast so that it can keep drilling for oil and gas under the ever-melting Arctic. READ MORE >>
