The New York Observer, where I intern a couple of days a week this semester, emailed me late Tuesday night and asked me if I wanted to stake out New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's apartment. If you haven't been living in a cave, you'd know that the New York Times...

After a cold day of handing out pamphlets for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, three New Yorkers swapped ideas about how to better reach people in a city where so many people are in a hurry and going door-to-door isn't possible with most people living in apartment buildings.

Their solution: Pub...

My younger sister called me Saturday afternoon from Denver, Col. with excitement in her voice.

"I just got back from phone banking, and it was awesome," Sarah said.

Phone banking and awesome aren't two words anyone would expect to hear in the same sentence. For anyone who has done...

Only in New York City could you find a woman from the Honduran rainforests trying to convince an Indian man to vote for a woman president while they smoked cigarettes outside a salsa bar.

That scene took place Thursday night after Sen. Hillary Clinton supporters watched her debate Sen. Barack...

Friends Melinda Phillips and Marilyn Ashley decided to go see Michelle Obama speak on Sunday night in Plymouth, N.H., even though they leaned toward another Democratic candidate.

Phillips had already said she would volunteer for Sen. Hillary Clinton on primary day. And Ashley had favored John Edwards. But that all...

PLYMOUTH, N.H. - Donna Smith told herself she had two rules when she started to work as a cashier here last March.

"No politics and no religion," said the 48-year-old from behind the counter at Munce's, a convenience store on Main Street. "It gets me in trouble. It starts fights."