On the surface, Senator Mary Landrieu seems to have all the strengths needed to survive as a Democrat in a red state: long experience in...

“We are not going to be talking about polar bears and butterflies,” said political strategist Chris Lehane, “We are going to be talking...

“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,”...

Politicians like data. But trends are a different story — harder to confuse and more difficult to misapply, trends can spell out dire...

In Pennsylvania, during the spring of 2008, Hillary Clinton’s campaign faced a notable problem: white women.  While Clinton courted the...

“You see homes in New Mexico where you have a crucifix and a picture of JFK on the wall, and now, President Clinton,” says New Mexico...

John Dennis is running against Majority Leader Pelosi this November. Art by Katrina Machado John Dennis’ next few months look rough....

Art by Emily Reif There’s a general understanding amongst the members of the American public that midterm elections are not, for most...

In the past week of unseasonably wet weather, campaign posters like a plague of mushrooms have sprouted across Turkey, a country gearing...

Taking a case all the way to trial is usually a hard, expensive and exhausting process.  Obtaining an audience in federal court is often...

Following the Fukushima disaster in Japan, Germany ambitiously vowed to shut down all its nuclear capacity in favor of renewable energy...

Art by Olivia Watson Four years ago, then-Mayor John Hickenlooper leveraged his popular, quirky image to catapult himself out of Denver’s...

Art by Anisa Holmes On a recent visit to my former high school in Charlotte, North Carolina, I asked my 12th grade English teacher,...

Art by Emily Reif Since the founding of America, religion has always been both a powerful influence and a blunt weapon in political...

Inspired by The Dish, BPR invited its readers to submit questions for Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief David Corn. In the latest...

Image courtesy of Brown 250+ Timeline & John Carter Brown Library. A Note From the Editors This year, as part of Brown University’s...

Freeway Rick Ross is a reformed drug kingpin who was released from jail in 2009. At the height of his operations in the 1980s, he grossed...

This is my sixtieth column for BPR, and probably my last (though feel free to start the Brett Favre “will he or won’t he?” unretirement...

Some big things are happening one town to my north. Up in Pawtucket, RI (yes, where Peter Griffin works on Family Guy), a coordinated...

President Michelle Bachelet marked her second inauguration last month wearing the country’s traditional red, white and blue presidential...