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Wherever they were given the opportunity, voters across the country went strongly for antiwar candidates. True, the national Democrats, led by Rahm Emanuel of the Democratic Congressional Campaign, had tried pretty successfully to keep such peaceniks off the ballot, but in a few key races the antiwar progressives romped home. The Democrats won, despite Emanuel. If the Clintonites weren't still controlling most of the campaign money, and more openly antiwar populists had been running, the Demo...

For six years, latterly with the backing of both houses of a markedly conservative Republican Congress, George Bush has led an American administration that has played an unprecedentedly negative and polarising role in the world's affairs. On Tuesday, in the midterm US congressional elections, American voters rebuffed Mr Bush in spectacular style and with both instant and lasting political consequences. By large numbers and across almost every state of the union, the voters defeated Republican...

Two proposed amendments to the Irish Constitution were announced by Barnardos at a press conference on Monday 6th November 2006. In an apparent gesture of official support for the measure, Finance Minister Brian Cowen headlined the presentation. In a press release on their website (www.barnardos.ie/news132.htm), Barnardos detailed the proposals announced at the press conference....

Interview with Newsom about, AC/DC, Rob Black, Chris Daly and medical cannabis...

Coming into the elections, polls showed Iraq as the top issue on the minds of American voters. For an Iraqi perspective, we speak with Iraqi blogger and architect Raed Jarrar....

We get analysis on Tuesday's election and the Democratic victory in the House with consumer advocate and former presidential candidate, Ralph Nader. Nader says, "This election was basically a mandateless election for the Democrats, there was really no mandate other than against Bush and do something about Iraq. Domestically there was virtually no mandate about rearranging of power - shifting it from corporations to workers, consumers, taxpayers, to communities."...

As the Democrats take control of the House for the first time in 12 years, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi is set to become the country's first female House speaker. Tuesday was a day of others firsts across the country. Among them, Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison was elected as the first Muslim to serve in Congress. He is also the first African America from Minnesota to be elected Congress. Ellison joins us on the line from Minneapolis....

“Tonight, we have made history,” declared U.S. Congressmember Nancy Pelosi after the Democrats yesterday regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years. They may also have retaken the Senate but at this writing that is still uncertain. Pelosi, who easily won reelection, is now set to become the first female Speaker of the House. “The people voted in Democrats to take the country in a new direction, and that is exactly what we intend to do,” she said. I do...

At 9:00 PST last night, what many thought would be a festive evening for national Democrats was turning into a good but not a great election. Democrats were assured of winning the House, but were prevented from a landslide by losing multiple races by small margins in upstate New York and Connecticut. Even worse, Virginia’s Jim Webb was trailing right-wing racist George Allen, and Missouri’s Claire McCaskill was behind 51-46 with 50% counted. But by 10:00 pm, the political world had changed. W...

Remarks by former President Bill Clinton at an election rally held in Detroit over the weekend underscore an important fact about the social orientation of the Democratic Party....