John McCain

You could design a takeoff on Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego while trying to sort out where Senator McCain really stands on energy and global warming issues as he moves towards his general-election showdown with Obama/Clinton.

A couple of weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal asked me...

Hey, folks like the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America are pushing a bill to get real educational benefits to the troops. Barack's behind this, and Bush/McCain's against.

The real bill, the "Webb/Hagel" bill, covers the cost of a four-year public school college education anywhere in the country.

It...

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On Monday, John McCain will deliver a speech on climate change from Portland, Oregon. In it he will lay out the framework for climate policy under a McCain administration. After a primary spent shoring up his credentials among the Republican base,...

Conventional wisdom says a Bob Barr Libertarian run for president will take votes from the Republican John McCain, and that's good for the Democratic nominee, but it's not that simple.

Former federal prosecutor and Georgia Republican congressman Barr can be loony, but he has turned into quite...

George Bush's approval rating among Democrats is 1%. Among Republicans it's 67%. And among Independents it's 14%, according to the American Research Group poll last April. Every other poll shows substantially the same partisan disparity. News outlets talk about Bush's approval levels approaching "Nixonian" levels, but they shy away...

Sen. John McCain announced his long-awaited climate plan today. Ironically, he made the announcement at a Danish wind turbine company in Oregon -- ironic because like so many conservatives before him, he has worked hard to kill off the domestic wind industry (see here).

Much worse, though, his plan's...

With Senator Obama the presumptive Democratic nominee, the question facing America, increasingly, boils down to this: intensify the "clash of civilizations," at the continued expense of domestic needs, or turn to diplomacy to resolve international conflict, so we can re-orient our national priorities to health care, education, economic recovery, and...

The winds of change have brought Democrats a big advantage in the races for the White House, U.S. House and Senate in 2008. The opportunity for the emergence of a governing Democratic majority is unprecedented.

Democrats have the Republicans to thank for this historic opening in 2008. The...

The Republican tax cut cult, as Arianna so aptly calls it in her new book, has achieved its zenith in California. Here, if you must have a yacht or private jet, you can have it...

The teacher in me is starting to get uncomfortable watching pundits blasting Hillary Clinton and John McCain's proposed gas tax holiday. Denunciations of this plan revive memories of seminar sessions when a group of students seeing that one one of their more confident classmates has erred proceed to gang...

Now that the outcome of the battle for the Democratic nomination has been settled beyond a reasonable doubt, it's worth looking systematically at the major factors that gave victory to Obama. After all, fifteen months ago, conventional wisdom viewed Obama as an audacious long shot. The very idea of...

Now that the general election battle lines are being clarified, I have a tip for the Democratic candidate: TALK MORE ABOUT EDUCATION.

The struggling economy may be the issue that voters say is most on their minds, but speaking truth about education never fails to stimulate a sea of emphatic...

After having lost the last two presidential elections and with Hillary Clinton still on the stump arguing that the near presumptive nominee is simply unelectable, it's no wonder that Democrats are starting to feel worried about November, peeking toward the future from behind the hand covering their eyes. But there...

Does anyone know what the Guinness Book's record is for fluorescent orange anti-war bannering on a footbridge above eight lanes of moving traffic? What is the record number of "honks for peace" in an hour? If peace with Iraq and Iran has not been...

Senator John McCain told Katie Couric on May 8 that Myanmar has "a very bad government" and that the United States should "ask the other countries in the region as well as China" to "really put some pressure on the junta" to accept humanitarian aid for cyclone victims.

"Very...