Too early, too often
Blogger Matthew Yglesias on what’s wrong with the way America votes.
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How will the recession, health care reform and new campaign financing rules affect the outcome on November 2?
In Perspective: Jon Meacham on the gay rights movement
In this essay, Jon Meacham compares the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s to the gay rights movement today, and finds that we may be repeating the mistakes of the past.
Peter Stone on the influence of money in this year’s campaign
Need to Know’s Jon Meacham interviews Peter Stone of the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity on the influence of money and corporations in this year’s midterm elections.
The shadow campaign: Big money in this year’s midterm elections
Need to Know examines changes in the campaign finance laws that are resulting in floods of corporate money flowing to campaigns — without knowing exactly where it’s coming from.
In perspective: Jon Meacham on ‘Superlativism’
As the midterm elections near, Jon Meacham cautions us against the belief that everything that happens in our time is the “most” this or the “worst” that, as some pundits would have us believe.
As election season begins, spending on campaigns breaks records
Corporations and labor unions are spending record amounts on political campaigns, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling. Monica Youn of the Brennan Center explains the new rules and how they might affect the November elections.
