Arizona

A permanent Democratic majority? A permanent Democratic majority?

Hispanic voters played a pivotal role in this election. If current trends continue, they may turn other parts of the country as blue as they just turned New Mexico.
  • McCain on the defensive in Arizona

    Obama pulls within a point of McCain in new Arizona poll, and goes on the air in the Republican's home state.
  • McCain brings it home

    The GOP front-runner celebrates before a crowd used to seeing him make comebacks.
  • Betrayed by John McCain

    Republican hard-liners have a potent hatred for their front-runner. But soon he may be sitting prettier -- with a win by Hillary Clinton.
  • Mike Tyson's latest court appearance

    Released without bail.
  • Uncle Sam, keep out

    What Democrats can learn from the failure of the gay marriage ban in Arizona.
  • Photo finish in Arizona

    Democrats have a shot at a Senate seat and several House races, but a new voter I.D. law could keep many of their supporters from voting.
  • High noon for immigration

    Democrats are poised to pick up a U.S. House seat in Arizona. Can Republican Randy Graf stop them by exploiting voters' fears of illegal immigrants?
  • The rattlers' inconvenient truth

    A warming climate could spell the end for a protected pit viper in Arizona.
  • Salon's shameful six

    There was Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. Here are the six states where vote suppression could cost voters their voice -- and Democrats the election -- in 2006.
  • The lost boys of Colorado City

    Over the past five years, a fundamentalist Mormon "prophet" has banished as many as 400 boys from his Arizona town. Now the teens, once forbidden to even watch a movie, are adrift in a world of drugs, girls and depression.
  • Destination: Arizona

    Look beyond the sprawl and congestion of this desert state with books from Wallace Stegner, Geronimo and Barbara Kingsolver -- and an unlikely guide to the Grand Canyon.
  • Her fetus wasn't riding shotgun, after all

    The Arizona woman who tried to use her unborn child to avoid a ticket for driving solo in the carpool lane is out of luck.
  • Legislating nip slips

    An Arizona law would exempt mamas who show some nipple while feeding their kids from getting arrested.
  • Always a bride

    A polygamy-centered religious sect in Utah and Arizona forces women to marry against their will. Why isn't anyone doing anything about it?
  • Lost in America

    It was supposed to be a storybook tale of young refugees triumphing against all odds. But an alarming number of Sudan's "Lost Boys" have spiraled into alcohol abuse, crime and even fratricide. What went wrong?
  • Backlash on the border

    An anti-immigrant ballot initiative with ties to racist groups threatens to split the GOP and derail Bush's chances in Arizona.
  • Revolt of the Goldwater conservatives

    In Arizona, home of American conservatism's feisty icon, independent-minded voters may have a nasty surprise for George W. Bush.
  • Vigilante injustice

    Arizona militia members, a Colorado Republican and a national group with white supremacist ties have made a remote stretch of the Mexico border a flash point for anti-immigrant hostility.
  • Antonin Scalia's crisis of conscience

    In a case that could free hundreds from death row, the conservative Supreme Court justice finds that his support for the rights of juries clashes with his staunch advocacy of the death penalty.
  • 40 minutes

    When Duke meets Arizona for the NCAA title, the winner will be whoever can get closer to playing a whole game, which nobody's been doing so far.
  • May day!

    George W. Bush would like to discharge openly gay soldiers from the Army. So why is Lt. Steve May, the openly gay Arizona legislator, endorsing him?
  • Watergate kids

    In Phoenix, Tom Liddy is running for office. Anne Kleindienst isn't. Too bad for us.
  • Artistes made daily

    Our expert directs travelers to French art workshops, Disneyland/Grand Canyon vacations and flight-tracking Web sites.
  • Rail good time

    How to see the West by train, visit France at the right time and find a bed at the New Orleans Jazz Fest.
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