Simple truths are powerful. Here's one: the two presidents who mired us in unwinnable wars in modern times both hail from the same state of Texas. The Lone Star state has a lot to answer for.
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media
With Pennsylvania six weeks away, the media had to spike our interest by equalizing Hillary's big state victories by conning us into thinking that Wyoming and Mississippi are akin to Ohio and Texas.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
The lack of administrative and crisis management experience shouldn't disqualify a prospective presidential candidate, or mean that he or she will crumble under fire.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
At Robert Kennedy's February 8, 1968 appearance in Chicago, he decided to evaluate the meaning of the Tet Offensive.
Warren Goldstein | Posted 02.04.2008 | Home
Forty-eight years ago, on the playground of Crown Elementary School, in Coronado, California, I knew that Richard Nixon should be the next President o...
Tony Sachs | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
What kind of Kool-Aid are we Democrats drinking to think that Obama or Clinton have a snowball's chance in heck of being elected president this November?
Steve Clemons | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics
Assessing the greatest and worst presidents is a process fraught with problems and subjective bias.
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
King's legacy is a third-rail issue -- touch it and you die in Democratic politics. Clinton was seen as somehow "slighting" King, and so she had to pay the price.
Jim Wallis | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
The great practitioners of social change understood that you don't change a society by merely replacing one politician with another.
RJ Eskow | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
The entire Clinton team could suddenly have become accident-prone when it comes to racial statements. But there are books on subliminal messaging in politics and they have read them.
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
The challenge confronting me and others, who worked with Dr. King, is how to set the record straight without appearing to third parties to be playing the so-called "race card".
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
How did President Bill Clinton's welfare "reform," "free trade" pacts, and "deregulation" help African Americans? And what would a President Hillary Clinton do differently?
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics
If Hillary could be faulted for anything it's that she didn't go far enough.
Steve Clemons | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics
It's absurd for anyone to be engineering drama over the clear collaboration of effort and objectives that required both Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson -- but politics needs battles.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics
Hillary has begun a campaign based on rigorous 1990s politics of identity, a game at which the Clintons excel, using one group against another as the need arises.
Marshall Grossman | Posted 01.12.2008 | Politics
Obama offers a calculatedly vague promise of optimism and change. Hillary continues to speak a language we have had a lot of experience with -- triangulation and protracted engagement.
RJ Eskow | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
When Karl Rove claims that Obama "bluffs" and makes "misstatements" or "exaggerations," he's appealing to bigots who believe black people are inherently dishonest.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
In an almost nostalgic display of Michael Gordon/Judith Miller-style stenography we have been subjected to a feast of news stories, overwhelmingly bas...
The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) presidential campaign is raising contributions at the rate of $1 million a day so far this year, campaign manager David P...
Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Here's the cover for this week's issue of The Weekly Standard, excitingly available on newsstands now. Here, once again, we encounter the renowned ju...
Election Central | Greg Sargent | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
The Tears are now officially an issue in Campaign 2008. Obama's national campaign co-chair, Jesse Jackson, Jr., just went on MSNBC and appeared to qu...
Political Radar | Kate Snow and Jennifer Parker | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
The woman whose empathetic question -- "how do you do it?" -- sparked uncharacteristic emotion Monday from Sen. Hillary Clinton ended up voting for Se...
Political Wire | Stuart Rothenberg | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
While some will suggest that Sen. Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire victory can be traced to her emotional comments shortly before the primary, and othe...
Adam Hanft | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
Hillary repeats, endlessly, that this campaign is about her "life's work" of 35 years. But at the end of the day, how important are her causes, really, versus vaulting ambition?
New York Sun | PETER KIEFER | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
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Jamie Stiehm | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics