9:00 PM, BERLIN, 24 July 2008

Back at the Adlon and pondering the speech. Live blogging, you only capture a moment. I'll be thinking about Obama's introduction of himself to the Old World for a long time. Basically, he gave the speech that many of us Americans knew he would...

BERLIN -- On what used to be the East German side of the Brandenburg Gate, Linnea and Julia, two American college students, have been spending this sunny Wednesday afternoon handing out blue postcards advertising Barack Obama's appearance tomorrow at the Siegessaule, the Uberphallic Victory statue in the Tiergarten, less than...

The John McCain town hall meeting is a fraud. Unlike other writers at HuffPost, I want John McCain to do well this summer, so it pains me to report this. "I believe the town hall meeting is the most important element of democracy," Senator McCain said last week in Portsmouth,...

When Senators Obama and McCain give the keynote addresses for the Sunday brunch (Obama) and Monday lunch (McCain) in San Diego at the fortieth anniversary convention of the National Council of La Raza, the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., NCLR president Jane Murguia enacts...

A week after Senator Obama and his campaign descended upon Eastside Community Ministries in Zanesville, Ohio, where Obama delivered his controversial remarks calling for an expansion of federal funding to faith-based ministries that deliver social services, I head to Zanesville to see if its churches share the Senator's vision. After...

Barack Obama's Zanesville, Ohio, remarks on July 1st, in which he pledged a continuation, if reorganization, of the Bush Administration's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, are part of a larger Obama religious outreach called the American Values Campaign, a "journey," in which the Obama camp is mulling the role of...

BUCKS COUNTY, Penn. -- Driving through the rolling hills and horse pastures here, the miles dotted with antiques stores, fieldstone houses and the orange daylilies of summer, I kept thinking that any minute I would be making a turn from the land of Fox Chase Bank and Cock n Bull...

Ah, the infectious chaos of the campaign trail! I'm on a yellow school bus groaning up yet another New Hampshire hill. Or are we in Vermont? Unclear. The bus driver doesn't know the way to Unity. None of the local Obama volunteers know either; none of them have ever seen...

Yesterday, wearing my finest Jordanian textiles and therefore looking a bit out-of-place in midtown Manhattan at noon, I walked to the Reuters Building on Times Square, where Meenakshi Ravi of Al Jazeera's "The Listening Post" had arranged to speak with me via satellite feed. Meena had emailed me her questions...

On the first morning of this year's PDF, Micah Sifry, editor of the Personal Democracy Forum and co-founder of TechPresident.com, said, "I'm a big believer in the wisdom of crowds." By the end of the second day at this largely but not exclusively liberal/progressive conference, a confidence in crowds had...

Here I am in New York laughing along with Jonathan Zittrain, of Harvard Law and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, as he talks about the day a single incident in Pakistan caused the crash of YouTube worldwide. "There's the thin nerdy line between us and chaos," he says....

Last night at a political meeting in my neighborhood, progressive writer and occasional Huff Post blogger David Sirota used the addition of centrist economist Jason Furman to the Obama team as an object lesson in placing too much faith in politicians. "Barack Obama is an empty vessel," Sirota said,...

Today I'm breaking in my new column with a bit of back story about covering the candidates on the ground, on the trail, from the weeds and broken asphalt yards and a world away from the Greyhound buses that carry the traveling press. If I'm late to a campaign event,...

The lingering hangover from Barack Obama's victory Tuesday night is his opponent Hillary Clinton.

Tomorrow Clinton will publicly endorse Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States. This will be just a formality, since she sent out an email to her supporters Wednesday night saying...

Yesterday from dawn until well into the night, from the moment songbird Communications spokesperson Dan Pfeiffer announced the first super delegate of the day's countdown, Barack Obama and his staff embraced a long sweet moment. It was a public celebration in the tradition of an old-fashioned Fourth of July, the...

People like you in places like this. This has been Bill Clinton's constant invocation in his picaresque travels campaigning on behalf of his wife in the Democratic primary states. Starting in New Hampshire, then through Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Indiana, Montana and South Dakota, he has visited over 300...

Click below to listen to audio of Bill Clinton on a ropeline discussing "The Comeback Id," Todd Purdum's controversial Vanity Fair article.

MILBANK, S.D. -- Former President Bill Clinton today unleashed a salty stream of epithets to describe former New York Times reporter and current Vanity Fair writer...

Last week over lunch with someone who works at a local college, the woman confessed to me that she was not going to the polls in November. A Clinton supporter, she couldn't bring herself to vote for Obama. Now this woman is neither poor, uneducated or Appalachian. However, she is...

Barack Returns to Iowa, and Both Bear the Wounds of the Long Campaign

Last night was glorious in Des Moines--balmy, clear, a moon like a gold doubloon on the low horizon. It was the perfect backdrop for Barack Obama's return to the state that set him on the path to...

The Saturday before the North Carolina primary, Joe Klein of Time and I separately spent a long time talking to Tammy, an army veteran and mother of four standing next to the press rail before the Rotary Centennial Pavilion in Gastonia. Senator Clinton was, unusually for her, very late to...