Page 1 - Editor's Note

Page 5 - Jacqueline Salit / Notes from the Ground Up

Page 10 - Doug Bailey / Why Unity08!

Page 12 - Kim Wright / Oklahoma Overreaches

Page 14 - Phyllis Goldberg / Griffin and Obama: Change is in the Air

Page 17 - Jacqueline Salit / It's Those Parties!(And I'll Cry If I Want To)

Page 21 - Ari Pinkus / The Christian Science Monitor
Freethinking, unsure, fed up

Page 23 - Jim Mangia / On Friendship and Political Inspiration

Page 25 - At the Threshold - A NEO interview with Dennis Kucinich

Page 28 - Harry Kresky / U.S. Supreme Court Weights Rights of Parties vs. Public Interest

Page 30 - Matt Meiners / Free association and the Fight to Bring Back Voter Choice: Developments in Open Primaries

Page 33 - Demetria Irwin / The New York Amsterdan News Group calls for Clinton/Obama debate in Harlem

Page 34 - Liz Halloran / U.S. News & World Report Suddenly, it seems like Deja Vu all over again to Liberals: Will Bloomberg do a Nader to Democratic hopes for 2008?

Page 34 - Idaho Independents

Page 35 - Jo Mannies / St. Louis Post-Dispatch Duo announce group for independent voters: Show Me Independents

Page 36 - Talk/Talk - Fred Newman and Jacqueline Salit take on the talking heads

Page 40 - Gary Schor / Ron Paul Movement Grows against the Odds