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
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Ohio's George Voinovich lashes out over his party's reliance on Southern spokesmen
By Vincent Rossmeier
July 28, 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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I don't like California; I like it where I am!
By Cary Tennis
July 11, 2008
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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
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I know I am different. I know I go for broke. What if my gift is rejected?
By Cary Tennis
November 7, 2007
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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
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I finally escaped the deadly web of small-town Southern life. But it keeps pulling on me!
By Cary Tennis
July 13, 2007
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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
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Like my father, I love and respect guns. But I'm conflicted.
By Cary Tennis
April 16, 2007
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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
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Why do Southern folks elect regressive, warmongering politicians but still call you "sunshine" when they serve your coffee?
By Garrison Keillor
October 18, 2006
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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
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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
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A report from Lebanon's south, ravaged by retaliatory Israeli strikes.
By Mitchell Prothero
July 14, 2006
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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
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Following the progressive tradition of Andrew Jackson, the North Carolina senator will challenge the GOP's divisive appeal.
By Sidney Blumenthal
July 8, 2004
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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
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The author of "Sex in the South" whoops it up at a sex-toy sales meeting in Arkansas.
By Suzi Parker
September 11, 2003
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Could Southern politeness be hindering efforts to stop the spread of AIDS?
By Michael Alvear
February 26, 2003