My Fellow Americans. If you are in DC for the inauguration and are bracing yourselves for the logistical nightmares involved in getting around -- you are hearing stories about roads and bridges being shut down; you're hearing predictions about a metro system in meltdown, and you know that DC taxis...

I missed the concert! Boy was I just a little bit bummed about that. I had thought it would go 'til 7 and got into town, all pleased and cocky-like, at 4:30p, sure that even though they said the concert would start at 2:30p they didn't really mean it. I...

I was on the subway heading in to town when I read the headline.

"I don't bloody well believe it," I muttered to myself and anyone who could hear me. "The #$%^%^ Bush Administration." (Yes it's true. I swear. I'm Irish. Comes with the territory).

The headline, tucked...

"The reason I am here today," the man said, (and I am paraphrasing), "is because when we were engaged to be married, my wife-to-be was raped and became pregnant as a result of that rape. This was before Roe vs. Wade, in upstate New York, and in order for her...

It is a day I will never forget, the sound of a low flying plane flying over my apartment, the sound of a bang that I assured myself was just a container being dropped on a loading dock. The hangover. The call to the newsdesk when I walked out onto...

I love the New Yorker. I love their covers. I actually always try and guess the title before I read it in the Table of Contents, but they are usually too clever for me and I generally get them wrong. There was one, a couple of years ago, the...

The woman approached me at the boarding gate for a flight from New York City to Cleveland, Ohio. I was flying out there before the primary to canvass for Barack Obama and had a few tell-tale stickers festooned to my bag and a "Barack Obama" button or two on my...

Of all the analogies Hillary Clinton could have picked last week for her attempt to win the Democratic nomination, it turns out that she couldn't have picked a worse one than Eight Belles, the filly who ran her heart out in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, finished second behind the...

While Reverend Wright was speaking to the National Press Club yesterday morning alarms were going off right outside my window. Literally, sirens wailing on the street below my apartment, stuck in traffic, not able to move. I thought to myself, "how appropriate." Here we go, one week before the Indiana...

Well what a firestorm we've got going on right now. Holy Guacamole.

Just so you have them in front of you, here are the comments that Barack Obama made at that fundraiser in San Francisco a week ago, Sunday:

OBAMA:

So, it depends on where you are, but...

Let me see. How many times in the past three weeks have Hillary Clinton's supporters threatened to use the hefty dollar sign they wield as a way to influence the outcome of this -- what we would like to believe is a -- democratic -- nomination process?

That I know...

Let there be no mistake. The only reason why Michigan and Florida are now back in play and causing such heartburn is because the junior Senator from New York, one Hillary Clinton wants to change the rules. There is nothing democratic about this process we are all enduring at this...

Two films about the war.

Two devastating accounts of the way in which the Iraq war has impacted American men and women who have gone there to fight for their country. Whether or not you support the president's grand plan to spread democracy through the Middle...

I will never forget the time I spent in Coal Country, USA. It was the year 2000, in the run-up to the presidential election - the first round of Bush - and I had decided to travel to rural America at election time to "take the pulse' of the people...

Six weeks ago I spent the weekend in New Orleans. It was my second time there and I was excited to go back. I was particularly looking forward to eating at a famed New Orleans restaurant called Galatoire’s, an institution in New Orleans, one of the best restaurants in the...