After Ripping Clinton And McCain, Obama Embraces Their Policies
In an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, President Barack Obama challenged his critics to identify any "gap" between what he campaigned ...
In an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, President Barack Obama challenged his critics to identify any "gap" between what he campaigned ...
AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver
DENVER — An old debate about whether judges should be elected or appointed is heating up again. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conno...
Colin Delany | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
With software designed to allow campaigns to tap the enthusiasm (and the wallets) of supporters, 2010 should see an explosion of online fund-raising at the state and local levels.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
While Washington is all a-twitter over two society climbers crashing the gates at an Obama soirée, in the grand sweep of history, it was a fairly minor event. No one was in danger, and no real harm was done, nobody got dosed with LSD.
TIME | Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President's senior advisers for a potentially ex...
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
Already, thousands of our readers have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to endorse this message if you have not done so already.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Joe Trippi | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact
The objective the Eleven Eleven Campaign is simple: to get 11 million Americans to donate $11 to support America's Veterans.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
I think as people continue to see so much of politics as usual in this town -- partisan bickering and big money buying votes -- they are increasingly likely to vote against whatever represents the old politics for them.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.
Matt Dunn | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
The political world is in a state of confusion right now because technology is accelerating everything. Election Day 2010 is one year away. It's time for campaigns to start gearing up.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Last November, the United States elected a president who campaigned on the promise of change. Critics called President Obama's rhetoric simultaneousl...
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
With the noise clogging the media landscape, it's hard to get the public to pay attention to anything important. Fortunately, some extremely talented musicians are working to change that.
Newsweek | Anna Quindlen | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics
History will judge Barack Obama over the long haul. But we've learned something in the short term that is simple, obvious, and has less to do with him...
Wall Street Journal | ANAND GOPAL | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
KABUL -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai may not accept the results of a vote recount from the summer's general election, officials from his campaign hi...
Thomas W. Carroll | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York
Under Bloomberg and mayoral control (vs. how it was run under Bill Thompson under the old board of education), the public school system is viewed as a "portfolio" rather than as a centrally run monolith.
Dawn Teo | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, the DNC announced that Kyl would be focused in its "Call 'Em Out" campaign and released a web video attacking Kyl for engaging in fear-mongering and lies.
Jim Wallis | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment
What I love about a U2 concert, headlined by the Irish tenor with the sunglasses, is how it achieves such a powerful combination of art and social justice, music and message; and all with such fun.
AP | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics
GREENVILLE, S.C. — A candidate to be South Carolina's next National Guard leader skipped the fiery speeches for firepower, launching his campaig...
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.
Talking Points Memo | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL) is really taking his appeals to the state's religious right to a new level, in his campaign for Senate. Town Hall reports t...
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
Of the nearly 3200 candidates running for Provincial Councils in Afghanistan, 328 are female. The idea is to help women run for and win office, and to grow the ranks of women serving in government.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
After reading Palin's interview in Runner's World, I doubt she'll be off the political stage anytime soon. A presidential campaign is a long race that requires a lot of endurance.
Michael Shaw | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
The political reality is that -- especially for contentious issues -- there is a very small window for presidents to get things done.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics