U.S. Senator John McCain, a torture survivor from his days as a captive during the Vietnam War, says his private comments about harsh interrogation me...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
When McCain is willing to sign away the principle derived from what is the defining moment of his life, then the question is: what core of character remains?
James Freedman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home
A candidate like Obama -- who says "thoughtful things" and actually speaks in "paragraphs" as opposed to soundbites -- might be willing to address the topic. But don't hold your breath.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
How apathetic does McCain think the voters are that his campaign can get away with accusing Obama of the very thing that has been McCain's biggest weakness?
BBC News | Staff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
In 1967, US presidential candidate John McCain's plane was shot down on a bombing mission over North Vietnam. BBC reporter Andrew Harding tracked dow...
NY Times | David Kirkpatrick | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics
About a year after his release from a North Vietnamese prison camp, Cmdr. John S. McCain III sat down to address one of the most vexing questions conf...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
While some may say this emperor (Bush) has no clothes, he's still managed to hide his derriere better, and operate with impunity more effectively, than any in recent memory.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, John McCain admitted to me that he hadn't voted for George Bush.
HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
Karl Rove's recent opinion piece on John McCain contradicts the definition of torture to which his former employer adheres. Despite repeated claims t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
McCain is the world's worst panderer, mainly because his pandering is exacerbated by a stunning ineptness. Somehow, all of McCain's inconsistencies strike Kristof as laudable.
Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Michael D. Shear | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In Saturday's Washington Post the paper examines, in two separate articles, instances in which John McCain seems to be either changing his position, c...
Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
So much for Sen. John McCain being a man of principle who stood up to the Bush Administration and fellow Republicans. Turns out, he too is just anoth...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Today, at 10:30 a.m. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is expected to bring to the floor the Intelligence Authorization Conference Report. One ...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro took on front-running Republican presidential candidate John McCain Monday, accusing him of lying about Cubans tortur...
TIME | MIchael Scherer and Bobby Ghosh | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics