Although Iraq is the defining foreign policy issue so far in the race, China will no doubt be smuggled into the election through rather stark contrasts between the the candidates over trade.
Michael Conniff | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green
My "1969" jeans are nothing more than a sham, a fraud, a stonewashed Watergate metaphor for the previously stoned.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
The folks over at Slate have taken the just-finished Democratic race for President and boiled 16 months down to 8 minutes. Remember Hillary's cackle? ...
Mark Kleiman | Posted 06.09.2008 | Media
John McCain gave an interview to Newsweek and flip flopped twice, which may be a single-interview record.
Dave Winer | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics
In US politics they talk about Inside The Beltway the same way the tech industry talks about Silicon Valley. Now, people may question whether Barack...
New York Times | JODI KANTOR | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
Now that a would-be first female president is ending her quest for the White House, the race is more about women than ever before. With Senator Hilla...
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 06.07.2008 | Home
Clinton's tenacity, her desire to be a model intelligent women in the public sphere influencing governance, has turned the scarlet letter she has been made to wear-- A for Ambition-- into a badge of honor.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
Obama's rise still makes many Chinese nervous. Will he abandon Bush's pragmatic China policies? Will he lapse into old-style protectionism? Despite questions, enthusiasm for him is definitely percolating.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.06.2008 | Home
In the optimism over restoring America's international image by electing Obama, little was said about the possible international significance of a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Tom Douglas | Posted 06.06.2008 | Home
Of course Democratic women will vote for Obama in November-- unless, that is, he chooses another woman as his running mate. A slight of this magnitude might really put the Hillary faithful over the edge.
Ron Levitt | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home
Florida Democrats, still heated after the botched Democratic primary there and its rancorous aftermath, came together to protest John McCain's opposition to a national catastrophe relief funds.
Rebecca Ford | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home
On the primary campaign trail, Barack Obama said political attacks on his wife Michelle were "unacceptable." But now that it's a two man race, the would-be first wives should brace for attack.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home
We can credit Hillary with many gifts, among them, however, is not a mastery of timing: The "experience" candidate's campaign is a textbook example of right things done at wrong times.
Huffington Post | Adam Rose | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media
Hillary Clinton's willingness to concede the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama dominated the front page today in newspapers nationwide, but news t...
Max Zimbert | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home
Feminism isn't the same now in the wake of the Clintons. Clinton campaign is partly responsible for femininity's evolution from equality between genders, to expectation among genders.
Justin Frank | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Splits within groups -- like the current split between Obama and Clinton supporters -- are even more absolute and dramatic than those within one individual.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Kennedy's death came when the world was on the cusp of transformation -- between authoritarian societies and social and political justice. Much of that change was stalled in the US for decades to come.
Ari Melber | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
The RNC is trying to drudge up an intraparty "attack," but it sounds more like warmed-over punditry.
McClatchy Newspapers | Greg Gordon | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
The climactic end of the Democratic presidential race left loser Hillary Clinton in an odd position: Her campaign is both awash in cash and buried in ...
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Pfleger has been thumbing his nose at authority -- secular and sacred -- for years in pursuit of what he believes God has called him to do: fight for the poor and oppressed.
Jillian York | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home
"By raising the specter that someone could assassinate Barack Obama as her reason for continuing to campaign, she really has show how utterly unsuitable she is for public office. It's a shame."
Peter Dreier | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home
Last night Hillary mirrored Nixon's famous and pathetic speech. In 1952 he told a national audience he was not a quitter and appealed to voters to help decide whether he should be the vice presidential candidate. "Wire and write," he said.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Editorials across the U.S. on the morning after largely hailed Barack Obama's win over Hillary Clinton. Here is a sampling of what they had to say.
Dave Winer | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
It's hard for a man to compete against a woman. You can see it in the speech that Obama gave last night, he went right at McCain, in a way he never co...
Beverly Davis | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home
Happy Obama the winner was confident, a great communicator. Doc Clinton was a wonky loser who acted the winner. And Grumpy McCain looked and sounded every bit the loser, unpracticed and sad and tired.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
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Via ThinkProgress, in an interview with NewsMax, President Bush's brother Jeb...
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It started with the fist bump seen 'round the world. Soon...
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John Feffer | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics