The South

The public knows the GOP is fibbing The public knows the GOP is fibbing

Only Republicans really buy the anti-healthcare reform lies. So why are some Dems settling for such an awful bill?
By Gene Lyons Sep 24, 2009

  • Republican senator on GOP's problems: "It's the Southerners"

    Ohio's George Voinovich lashes out over his party's reliance on Southern spokesmen
    By Vincent Rossmeier July 28, 2009

  • The economic Civil War

    The South's attempt to kill the North's auto industry is the latest battle in an ongoing conflict. It's time for a Third Reconstruction to put an end to it.
    By Michael Lind December 18, 2008

  • Dixie is gone with the wind

    No economic-populism-inspired revivals are going to turn the region blue. Virginia's Jim Webb is a lonely exception.
    By Thomas Schaller August 19, 2008

  • How Democrats can take back the South

    The author of "Blue Dixie" says don't give up on the region -- but don't pander to it with Clintonian centrism.
    By Bob Moser August 19, 2008

  • Wicker wins in Mississippi

    The incumbent Republican holds on to his Senate seat, easily fending off his Democratic challenger.
    By Alex Koppelman November 4, 2008

  • McCain wins in Georgia

    The Obama campaign managed to turn out an impressive number of African-Americans, but it wasn't enough -- black voters could still boost other Democrats, though.
    By Alex Koppelman November 4, 2008

  • Black and white in color

    An arch, acute and haunting documentary about the segregated Mardi Gras traditions of Mobile, Ala., "The Order of Myths" might be the nonfiction film of the year.
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 25, 2008

  • My company wants me to move to California

    I don't like California; I like it where I am!
    By Cary Tennis July 11, 2008

  • Republicans fear black voter surge in the South

    Rep. Adam Putnam worries that black turnout could "swamp" Republicans in down-ballot races in the South. Is he right?
    By Ed Kilgore July 10, 2008

  • I peed at my desk in third grade and now I'm afraid to sing

    I know I am different. I know I go for broke. What if my gift is rejected?
    By Cary Tennis November 7, 2007

  • The deep delicious South

    John T. Edge, America's bard of Southern food, talks about Kool-Aid pickles, eating with the KKK, and how okra might be the ultimate tool of integration.
    By Adam Roberts July 17, 2007

  • My Southern grandmother is dying, and I don't want to go back

    I finally escaped the deadly web of small-town Southern life. But it keeps pulling on me!
    By Cary Tennis July 13, 2007

  • The spring blues

    On an April day in Georgia, not even fried chicken and the scent of magnolia can make you forget the kids we're sending to die in a pointless war.
    By Garrison Keillor May 2, 2007

  • I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?

    Like my father, I love and respect guns. But I'm conflicted.
    By Cary Tennis April 16, 2007

  • Do Democrats need the South?

    The party is doing fine, winning the Northeast, the West and the Midwest. So why is James Carville still pushing a Southern strategy?
    By Thomas F. Schaller November 14, 2006

  • Terms of endearment

    Why do Southern folks elect regressive, warmongering politicians but still call you "sunshine" when they serve your coffee?
    By Garrison Keillor October 18, 2006

  • The North goes south

    In this heat, even respectable Northerners want to shoot at beer cans and sing about the good old days on the plantation.
    By Garrison Keillor August 2, 2006

  • Israel's maximal option

    Part of Israel's war strategy may be to push the Shiites out of Lebanon's south. That would be a humanitarian disaster -- and it won't work.
    By Juan Cole July 19, 2006

  • Lebanon pays for Hezbollah's sins

    A report from Lebanon's south, ravaged by retaliatory Israeli strikes.
    By Mitchell Prothero July 14, 2006

  • King's lost dream

    The final volume of Taylor Branch's magisterial biography shows how Martin Luther King Jr. reached out to his enemies. His example should shame the shrill partisans on both sides of our poisonous cultural divide.
    By Charles Taylor February 1, 2006

  • John Edwards' Southern strategy

    Following the progressive tradition of Andrew Jackson, the North Carolina senator will challenge the GOP's divisive appeal.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 8, 2004

  • Letters

    Haven't white Southerners suffered enough? Anyway, slavery is irrelevant to the plot (and geography) of "Cold Mountain." Readers respond to Stephanie Zacharek's review.
    January 5, 2004

  • Look away, Dildo Land

    The author of "Sex in the South" whoops it up at a sex-toy sales meeting in Arkansas.
    By Suzi Parker September 11, 2003

  • Killing with kindness

    Could Southern politeness be hindering efforts to stop the spread of AIDS?
    By Michael Alvear February 26, 2003
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