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Sen. John McCain, who until yesterday barely said boo about education, now has the solution to our education ills.

This doesn't go down very well with a lot of voters, especially with the working class and underpaid professional women who make up many of Senator Clinton's supporters -- women who may have been passed over for jobs in the past and who work for 80 cents of a man's dollar.

In effect, Gore's prospects are aligned with Clinton's. Unless the contest comes down to the convention, neither is likely to emerge the nominee.

"We will be seated," said Democratic State and National Committeewoman Diane Glasser of Tamarac, who is a super-delegate.

Despite the nastiness directed at him, however, Obama should be thanking Bill Clinton for one thing: his campaign nomination is unthinkable without him.

My fiance is living on a small base a few kilometers from Nassiriya and I hadn't heard from him in a few days.

Being a superdelegate from New Hampshire, (with their "first in the nation primary" January 8th) AND having declared your support of Sen. Hillary Clin...

A tug-of-war with the Bush Administration over public records regarding a new reading commission illustrates how the presidential race isn't just about what kind of policies the candidates stand for, but also how they would run the bureaucracy of the federal government in general.

Today I asked Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson directly whether Clinton, next week, would make public all her tax returns from 2000 through 2006. He promised that she would. If the Clinton campaign keeps its word, Pennsylvania voters will have much more insight into where her interests and loyalties lie before they vote next month.

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The candidates are laying out their economic plans. But a press release from the Clinton campaign last week shows who she's really talking to: party insiders.

One of the sadder footnotes currently being written to history is the damage to Joe Wilson's reputation as a pretty good public servant. Contrast his record of service with his craven attacks on Obama.

Sen. John McCain will visit Denver on Thursday to do what many politicians have done before him -- ask for money. But the fundraising trip to the posh...

A student at Butler University asked Chelsea Clinton this week if her father's affair with Monica Lewinsky had lessened her mother's 'credibility.' Where is the new kind of politics we were promised in this campaign?

If McCain were alone in participating in this culture of corruption, we wouldn't be in the economic mess we're now in. Unfortunately, McCain's behavior was typical.

Some people are mistakenly equating Hillary's growing credibility gap with what happened to Al Gore. But Gore was unfairly smeared. With Hillary is self-inflicting these wounds, it's more accurate to equate her with Nixon.

A sweeping defeat for Obama in Pennsylvania or a slow bleed through the last ten contests will plant the question of electability in the minds of some superdelegates.

The question facing Democrats at this point in the election cycle is how scorched are we willing to let the earth become?

Our political discourse has become all inside baseball, all the time, and every 3 AM ad, every SNL skit, every Wright sermon that is now infesting our conversations is not informing the judgment of those who truly do play inside baseball.

Last week, Barack Obama touched off a serious discussion about race in this country and rightfully drew attention to the role education plays in the s...

With Hillary Clinton gaining ground in national polls and head-to-head projections, yet hopelessly behind in the delegate count, she has every reason to again raise the possibility of a "Dream Ticket". How should Obama respond?

Last week, Obama asked Americans to acknowledge racism's divisive presence and enduring impact in our society and individual lives, and to join a conversation. He invited us to participate in a process of reconciliation.

Two years ago this week, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt released their essay "The Israel Lobby" and kick-started a much-overdue discussion of America's relationship with Israel - and then all hell broke loose.

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If Obama is the Democratic nominee, both he and McCain should rapidly agree to accept public money in the general election, as sound campaign policy and as a statement of principle.