(From Norman MacAfee's Introduction to The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now (Basic Books), a new revised expanded paperback edition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign.)

It has been forty years now since the assassination of Senator Robert Francis Kennedy. In many...

This presidential year is a year of firsts: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, the first serious African-American and female presidential candidates.

Barack Obama is now the presumptive nominee.

I think he is the ideal candidate for our times.

Obama's experience as a community organizer and a professor of...

As I write this, the McCain campaign is trying to maneuver Barack Obama into going to Iraq, with or without John McCain.

It is not a good idea. It is offered in bad faith.

If Obama went, he would be at the mercy of the Bush propaganda machine, as...

"The Presidency of Al Gore, 2001-2009" began as notes for a book in three parts.

As I planned it, Part 1 is a narrative of the 2000 Gore-Bush campaign.

Part 2 is a narrative of the disastrous world brought about by Bush 43 from his inauguration to the present. This...

I have been meaning to write about whom I support in the Democratic primary. In January I backed all three main candidates. Basically, it was a case of any good Democrat being infinitely better than Bush. After John Edwards dropped out, I supported the two remaining.

As it came...

[Note: Continually thinking about how disastrous the last seven years have been, I did some imagining and research on what the world would be like if Al Gore had become president in 2001. Such a process is really about how important it is to elect the right president. I asked...

"Together we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft."

Robert Kennedy said that on March 24, 1968 on Olvera Street in Los Angeles.

He was running for president,...