The makers of Swing Vote have pulled off a rare double play, producing a smart political satire that is also heartfelt and moving. It's also a film that turns out to be remarkably relevant to the 2008 race. Read More
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There are many great bloggers out there who were convinced until the last moment that Edwards was truthful and that this was a conspiracy hatched by Clinton or Obama to undo him. Edwards owes these folks an apology.
When there seemed to be a bit of a smoking gun about McCain and a lobbyist earlier this year, The National Enquirer didn't touch it. The lobbyist was disappeared, the New York Times dropped the story, and shhh....no scandal. Why is that?
The high road would be great if it didn't lead us to defeat every 2 or 4 years. The high road would be great if it helped us win. Guess what, it doesn't.
We're not many hours into the official mainstream media phase of the John Edwards scandal and I'm already surprised. Something has happened that I didn't anticipate: I've lost respect for Elizabeth Edwards.
Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man -- there but not there?
Four-and-a-half years ago I profiled Hamdan's newly assigned defense lawyer, a JAG lawyer named Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift -- a gift from the magazine gods.
Edwards is caught having an affair and the overwhelming assumption is that his political career is over. How does that make any sense? Does he care less about poor people than he did yesterday?
Minutes after John Edwards admitted having an extramarital affair during the 2008 campaign, a supermarket tabloid published potentially explosive photos of an infant with a $400 haircut.
Women have had to run a gauntlet to get reproductive health care in recent years. If left to the Secretary of HHS, that gauntlet may be the healthcare passage for everyone.
Not only is she battling terminal cancer, but she now must muster the strength to deal with the news that her husband had an affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter.
The world will draw their own serious conclusions about Beijing, even if the Games go well. But in the event of a violent incident, the response will spur even more serious judgments about China.
The failure of obsessively anti-Arab, anti-Muslim characters to discern between genuine "bad guys" and just regular guys like Mazen Asbahi does a grave disservice to all Americans.
