It's fitting that Larry David should have such a wonderfully neurotic post about the twilight hours of this endless election season this week because I'm increasingly reminded of a scene in Curb Your Enthusiasm where Mr. David's semi-fictitious alter-ego squares off against an unruly toddler who won't quiet down...

So a Naval veteran, a law professor, and a plumber walk into a bar in Ohio...

Please forgive the half a joke because I, like the rest of the country, am waiting for the punchline.

As one Samuel Joseph Worzelbacher enters the race with the shock and awe of...

We here at OffTheBus receive an incredible volume of Op-Ed submissions. We have a team of editors that comb through the more than 100 email submissions sent each day to the CampaignTrail inbox, looking for the best citizen-generated pieces to share with the OTB reading community.

We here at Off The Bus receive an incredible volume of Op-Ed submissions. We have a team of editors that comb through the hundreds of emails each day in our project inbox, looking for the best citizen-generated pieces to share with the OTB reading community. Unfortunately, this leaves many pieces...

The first debate is in the can and apparently, I got it all wrong.

The most compelling portion of the event came before it even began, when a haggard John McCain crawled back in front of the press, tail between legs, and said he would come out and play after...

The Young Democrats of America convention kick-off party guests included Matt Singer of the Bus Project. The Bus Project (a.k.a. BusFed) is a grassroots political operation that spans five Midwestern states. BusFed aims to mobilize young voters through canvassing efforts in swing...

LGBT blog The Bilerico Project offers a convincing collection of circumstantial evidence that points to Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh as the frontrunner for Obama's VP slot. Post author Bil Browning says the announcement will come this morning.

The Washington Post's political blog "The Fix" has some interesting arguments...

Obama's use of a single word in in his speech at the AIPAC policy forum on Wednesday may prove to be the demise of his campaign in the eyes of Arabs, Jewish people, or perhaps both.

In the lead-up to securing the nomination, Obama has slowly distanced himself from pro-Palestine...

"People believe that they live in a kind of neutral public space. What they don't realize is that what is neutral to them, what's a neutral, comfortable public space to them may actually be excluding a lot of people." - Susan A. Phillip, author of "Wallbangin"

"This is me....

Chris Nelson arrived at OffTheBus by way of USC's Annenberg School for Communication, where he is a journalism master's student. He also works as the managing editor of the website Pop + Politics, an early content partner with OTB that introduced him to the citizen journalism endeavor. He was...

What do Sanjaya Malakar and Hillary Clinton have in common? More than an astounding penchant for sounding shrill and one-note, apparently.

With the news Monday that Rush Limbaugh is telling his Texas listeners to take advantage of the open primary rules in their state by voting for Hillary, he has...

The following piece is published on Pop and Politics as well as OffTheBus.

Political polemicist-popculture entertainer Ann Coulter spoke at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School last week as part of a national "conservative campus protest" called Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. The Terrorism Awareness website, created...

The following piece is published on OffTheBus as well as Pop and Politics.

Former NATO commander and retired four-star general Wesley Clark appeared at UCLA on Friday ostensibly to plug his latest book, A Time to Lead: For Honor, Duty, and Country, a memoir accompanied by a