ST. PAUL -- Three eyewitnesses -- two people involved in the march and one member of the Department of Corrections -- described yet another police-protester confrontation in downtown St. Paul Tuesday evening.

Although no one with whom I spoke reported any violence, roads were blocked to pedestrians and car traffic...

MINNEAPOLIS - ST PAUL -- I'd expected everybody at the Future Frontrunners summit--an afternoon of speakers for high school and college-age women who'd won an essay-and-video contest addressing what they would do if they were president--would be talking about Gov. Sarah Palin. Instead, the young women demanded of three Republican...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Police arrested protesters near the St. Paul convention site this afternoon and blocked off pedestrian and car traffic into the city center for at least an hour.

While the remains of a peaceful protest parade swirled around one closed road after another, growing increasingly frustrated that they weren't...

DENVER -- The foreign policy forums around the convention yesterday bore only scant resemblance to the foreign policy remarks from the podium last night.

At events sponsored by NDN, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Leaders forum, scholars, elected officials, and activists hit over and over the themes...

DENVER -- Going to the Pepsi Center to watch the politicians speak is a little bit like entering Dante's Inferno. Once you make it past the security screening, you emerge into an arena of many rungs, and the rung one achieves depends on the color of one's pass -- orange...

DENVER -- This morning I went to a breakfast hosted by EMILY's List, which funds female Democratic candidates, in large part because I was pretty sure I could get some yogurt and a banana there. Most of my diet at the convention has been fried, caffeinated, or come in a...

DENVER -- Clinton supporters aren't the only Democrats who aren't thrilled with the presumptive nominee. At a gathering today of Spiritual Progressives, a priest, a rabbi, a Muslim, and an evangelical Christian lamented Barack Obama's move toward the center.

"McGovern told me it was the same thing that happened to...

DENVER -- This week here, there is the convention at the Pepsi Center -- the five-tier, 15,000-seat, Secret Service-guarded sports arena where 6000 delegates will hammer out the party platform during the day and Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden will speak in the evening.

Then...

DENVER -- Code Pink, which has built its reputation protesting the Iraq war, is planning a handful of events around the DNC this week, but organizers fear that those inclined toward their cause might not participate because they don't want to jeopardize Barack Obama's chances of winning the election.

With the exception of the sky, which is the color of faded blue jeans, everything in downtown Denver looks new.

The light bounces off the windows of the just-built condominiums, and a suspension bridge has only recently opened to connect LoDo (Lower Denver) with the 'burbs. To get to...

NORFOLK, Va. -- Although it was ninetysome degrees and thick with humidity, Michelle Obama appeared at a roundtable for military spouses here Wednesday in a black cardigan and leggings.

"She's cuter than I expected," said one pastor. He'd been among the dozen or so faith leaders...

WASHINGTON, D.C.--What role Hillary Clinton will play in the upcoming election and an Obama administration is still unclear, but if her appearance last night at Rep. Carolyn Maloney's (D-NY) book signing is any indication, she's currently being cast as a Helen of Troy, launching a thousand feminist critiques.

Maloney, speaking...

Barack Obama is waging a strategic effort this week to shore up his credentials: between his impending trip to Europe and the Middle East, Monday's op-ed on withdrawing from Iraq, a new TV ad touting his bi-partisan bill to lock down loose nuclear weapons, and now Tuesday's...

At a fundraising Women's Breakfast at the Hilton Hotel Thursday morning in New York City, the main plot concerned how the Democratic Party was going to address issues that traditionally matter to women and how much cash voters would pony up in return to help elect Barack Obama. The subplot...

Did you see the cover of New York magazine last week?

A grinning John McCain and Barack Obama on beach chairs, knuckle-to-knuckle in a terrorist fist jab. Kudos to whoever thought of the shot -- even if neither McCain's pasty legs nor Obama's chiseled abs are their own....

Oh, Hillary. You were wrong when you said being the U.S. president was the hardest job in the world. Being the first woman to almost-be the U.S. president is the hardest job in the world. What a drag to act as the living symbol of feminism, to tutor the press...

When Hillary Clinton drops out of the race, the disappointment her supporters will feel will not be trivial. A campaign, like a romance, inspires fantasies of the future; it idealizes another person; it makes you feel that you're part of something larger than yourself. And when it's over, your heart...

Hillary Clinton's best line at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner last night in Raleigh, North Carolina, was about the long line of female fighters in America. Women protested against taxation without representation, she reminded us. Women overturned tea into the Boston Harbor.

The phrases, recent additions to the stump speech, stopped me...

All the polls this weekend show Hillary Clinton leading in Pennsylvania, but Obama's the one drawing the crowds. On Friday, he spoke to the largest group on the campaign so far-- 35,000, assembled in Independence Park, spilling onto the street-- and Sunday in Reading he drew about 2600. Clinton's drew...

Just as yesterday's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Iraq was winding down, I received an IM from my 24-year-old brother, Sam, a soldier currently serving in Iraq.

ME: hey! i'm at the senate right now, listening to gen petraeus!
SAM: Sweet!
SAM: How is it??
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