Lynn Sweet: Chicagoans To Tell Obama's Story At Convention
When Alexi Giannoulias was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago in the mid-1990s, one of the guys he would play pick-up basketball games with...
When Alexi Giannoulias was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago in the mid-1990s, one of the guys he would play pick-up basketball games with...
Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home
I signed up for two of Obama's "Listening to America" platform events. The first one was advertised as "Talk about Health Care." I drove 30-odd miles ...
236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
In light of the controversy surrounding this week's New Yorker cover, we wanted get some insight from an insider at the notoriously tight-lipped publi...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
Barack Obama was asked if he had a response to the very controversial New Yorker cover that combines every rumor and smear about him and his wife Mich...
Michael Shaw | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.13.2008 | Media
This week's New Yorker cover shows Barack and Michelle Obama as Muslim terrorists burning a flag in the Oval Office. Why would they publish such a thing? We asked New Yorker editor David Remnick. Here's what he said.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.13.2008 | Media
Who knows if they'll get this in Dubuque, but they sure aren't going to like it in Chicago: This week's New Yorker cover features an image of Michell...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.13.2008 | Media
Presumably the readership is sophisticated enough to get the joke, but this going to upset a lot of people -- probably for the same reason it's going to delight a lot of others on the right.
Markus Ziener | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
For the first time in a long time, we have a presidential contender who knows the hardships of the simple life -- and the tricks to stay afloat in a city like Chicago.
NY Times | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
The year was 1985 and Gerald Kellman, a community organizer, was interviewing an applicant named Barack Obama to work in the demoralized landscape of ...
New York Times | Posted 05.11.2008 | Politics
In August 1999, Barack Obama strolled amid the floats and bands making their way down Martin Luther King Drive on Chicago's South Side. Billed as the ...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two ...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland Clinic official says Democratic U.S....
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
USA Today reports that inventors, despite the clashing designs of airplanes...
There are over 6 billion people of people on the...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
NAPLES, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without...
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 08.19.2008 | Chicago