The White House throws a dinner for governors -- even the Republicans who still say they don't want Obama's stimulus money.
By Mike Madden Feb 23, 2009
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For higher office, and away from their earlier statements about how much they hate the whole idea of the stimulus.
By Mike Madden and Gabriel Winant
February 20, 2009
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The incumbent Republican holds on to his Senate seat, easily fending off his Democratic challenger.
By Alex Koppelman
November 4, 2008
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As the primaries end, a round table of experts -- Tom Schaller, Ruy Teixeira and Sean Wilentz -- weighs the influence of white racism on the Clinton vs. Obama contest.
By Mark Schone
June 3, 2008
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Mississippi in a "muddle," Oklahoma struck by twister of facts.
By Lynn Harris
April 2, 2008
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Many are still struggling on the Gulf Coast. But casino and real estate investors are living large -- thanks to Republican officials.
By Tim Shorrock
August 29, 2007
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Mississippi law limits abortion to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. But for poor women short on time and money, that can be an impossible deadline.
By Sharon Lerner
July 2, 2007
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Mississippi's GOP governor did a good job getting cash out of Republicans in Washington, but is he really doing a good job cleaning up after Katrina?
By Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
May 25, 2007
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A black mother's gift to her biracial children.
By Debra J. Dickerson
March 5, 2007
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While the rest of America gets more Democratic, Katrina -- and George W. Bush -- may have turned the state bright red. Can John Breaux save the Democrats?
By Thomas F. Schaller
February 20, 2007
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Tom Schaller may think the Democrats can whistle past Dixie and still win, but that's a recipe for disaster.
By Ed Kilgore
November 28, 2006
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As he travels the nation to commemorate Katrina and 9/11, the president is only highlighting the tragedy of his own incompetence.
By Sidney Blumenthal
August 31, 2006
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Preaching that abortion is as evil as Islam, Nazism and homosexuality, dozens of activists have descended on Jackson, determined to shut down the state's last abortion clinic.
By Michelle Goldberg
August 1, 2006
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The state passes a progressive law protecting nursing moms.
By Page Rockwell
April 7, 2006
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A committee in Mississippi's House passes a bill greatly restricting abortions.
By Sarah Goldstein
March 1, 2006
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When it comes to abortion rights, activists see the state as the "canary dying in the mine."
By Lynn Harris
December 28, 2005
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Real hurricane relief for the poor is coming not from the government or big charities but the kindness of strangers. It was always thus in America.
By David Weir
December 13, 2005
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In Gulfport, Miss., 13 days after Katrina roared through, we couldn't find one resident who had ever seen a FEMA official.
By Karen A. Lash
September 14, 2005
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Aaron Brooks and I were wrong: Hurricane Katrina is "a 9/11 deal." So why hasn't anyone suggested that sports take a break?
September 2, 2005
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Long before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was in a precarious state -- caught in an ongoing war with the mighty Mississippi River.
By John McPhee
August 30, 2005
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How President Bush sent a message with his court appointments.
By Jack Bass
March 24, 2004
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Me and Roger Clemens' mom. Plus: Michael Jordan's about to make a bad hire, and the Ole Miss mascot's date with ... Destiny?
June 19, 2003
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President Bush dumped Trent Lott because of his segregationist baggage. So why is he fighting relentlessly for a judge who has refused to come clean about his own bigoted past?
By Sean Wilentz
May 12, 2003
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Jill Nelson, Todd Gitlin and others react to the Senate majority leader's resignation and the apparent ascension of Sen. Bill Frist.
Compiled by Salon staff
December 21, 2002
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The Senate's top Republican tries again to persuade America that he's not a closet segregationist.
December 14, 2002
Obama to GOP governors: May I have this dance?
GOP governors take the (stimulus) money and run
Wicker wins in Mississippi
What role did race play with white Democrats?
This week in repro-rights rhetoric
Hurricane recovery, Republican-style
Pregnant and poor in Mississippi
A harder look at Haley Barbour's post-Katrina miracle
Don't be black on my account
Losing Louisiana to the GOP
Yes, Democrats do need the South!
Remembrance of Bush's fiascoes
Abortion under siege in Mississippi
Everything's broken
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
The battle of New Orleans
That old-time "Southern strategy"
The racist skeletons in Charles Pickering's closet
Glenn Greenwald
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