US Elections & Politics
Mass abstention in Detroit mayoral elections
SEP candidate wins significant vote
By Jack Cody and Jerry White, August 6, 2009
Less than 17 percent of eligible voters participated in Tuesday’s primary election in Detroit in a sign of popular disaffection with the political system. The only mayoral candidate addressing the n...
SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier takes part in Detroit mayoral debate
By Jack Cody, July 22, 2009
Socialist Equality Party candidate D’Artagnan Collier outlined his response to the social crisis in Detroit during a July 16 debate involving candidates for the city’s upcoming primary mayoral ele...
From Bush to Obama: On the eve of a “seamless transition”
By Patrick Martin, January 17, 2009
Three days before the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States, the distinctions have largely been effaced between the outgoing and incoming administrations.
Buyer beware! Obama named “Marketer of the Year”
By Tom Eley, December 6, 2008
About three weeks before he won the general election, President-elect Barack Obama was delivered a different sort of distinction—from the advertising world. Obama was named “Advertising Age’s ma...
Republican wins Georgia Senate race as Obama lies low
By Patrick Martin, December 4, 2008
Saxby Chambliss, a conservative Republican from Georgia, retained his US Senate seat in a runoff election Tuesday. The most important feature of the Georgia contest was the apparent decision by presid...
New York City: Financial meltdown brings Bloomberg term-limit maneuvers into focus
By Peter Daniels, December 1, 2008
On October 23, the New York City Council passed a bill extending to three the number of consecutive terms the mayor and other officials can serve, thus enabling Mayor Michael Bloomberg to seek another...
California: Passage of proposition banning same-sex marriage sparks protests
By D. Lencho and Andrea Peters, November 22, 2008
The passage of Proposition 8, a California ballot measure prohibiting same-sex marriage, has touched off an outpouring of criticism.
The black “insiders” and the Obama administration
By Lawrence Porter, November 17, 2008
The Obama presidential campaign carefully cultivated the illusion that an African American president would prove sympathetic to the plight of average working people. However, the social layers that Ob...
Bush cheers “free enterprise” as US capitalism goes bust
By Bill Van Auken, November 15, 2008
US President George W. Bush came to Wall Street Thursday to deliver a speech extolling the virtues of the “free enterprise” system even as multiple economic indicators made it clear that the so-ca...
One week since the election of Obama
By Barry Grey, November 11, 2008
With few exceptions, the media response to the Obama election is a curious combination of self-congratulatory assertions that the election has set the stage for a new era of progressive change, and wa...
Obama reassures big business on economic policy
By Patrick Martin, November 8, 2008
In his first public appearance as president-elect, Barack Obama held a press conference in Chicago Friday afternoon after meeting for several hours with a selected group of economic advisers, comprise...
A closer look at Obama’s transition team
By Joe Kishore, November 7, 2008
Barack Obama’s transition team is a collection of Washington insiders, former Clinton administration officials, corporate and banking executives, and individuals with roots in the Chicago Democratic...
