Peggy Noonan is apparently freaking out. Somewhere (probably in her Upper East Side apartment, probably chewing a piece of Nicorette) she is sitting i...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.18.2008 | Media
Kathleen Parker ignores the fact that Obama is half-white, is related (god help us) to Dick Cheney, and can trace his family back as far as McCain in America -- to George Washington, even.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media
Why does the candidate with by far the most diverse American experience have a patriotism problem?
Daily Nightly | Brian Williams | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media
I read that the New York Times Sunday (and weekday) circulation is down. I must admit that on Sundays it becomes a tough paper to figure out. While th...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
To hear Noonan, a former Reagan speechwriter, give the kind of response that you'd expect from, say, Donna Brazile, was a minor Easter miracle, a resurrection of rationality.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics
On today's Meet The Press, Peggy Noonan got ears burning when she suggested that there was some matter of dissension in the ranks of the Clinton campa...
New York Times | Stephanie Rosenbloom | Posted 03.06.2008 | Media
IT was another season of fashion runway shows and a group of friends, chatting about the revival of Halston, were reminiscing about their personal enc...
Michael Ames | Posted 03.03.2008 | Home
It might be the surest sign yet that Barack Obama is going to win this thing: the Right is, at long last, coalescing in an argument against him, after months of somewhat embarrassing fawning.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 02.29.2008 | Media
Clear signs suggest that Obama's press treatment will soon change and that the media will fall back into their lazy routine of critiquing Dems through the eyes of Republican spin.
Constance Seré | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
If we were aware of both the worst and best of what America has to offer, I think we would all be a lot less proud of what our country looks like in her fullness.
Nathaniel Bach | Posted 02.11.2008 | Home
The Obama-as-establishment and Clinton-as-underdog descriptions were post-Super Tuesday talking points for the Clinton campaign, but going forward the task will be how to avoid sliding down that slippery slope from "underdog" to "underwater."
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
A social movement is brewing the likes of which this country hasn't seen in decades and Barack Obama is trying to lead it, and channel it into electoral gain for the Democratic Party.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics
If the Democratic Party machine succeeds in nominating Hillary Clinton I hope its leaders and consultants are prepared for the onslaught from right-wing women.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
On the campaign trail, one criticism frequently lobbed at Hillary Clinton is that her presidency would be the extension of dynastic politics. The poli...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.18.2007 | Media
In the postmodern funhouse that imprisons prestige media, the job isn't to cover events, but rather to reveal their theatricality; the trick isn't to find truth, but to disclose "framing."
Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
We asked political observers -- including Nora Ephron, Peggy Noonan, Harry Shearer, Conrad Black, Richard Belzer, David Frum, Paul Slansky, and Joe and Jerry Long -- to weigh in on the question: Who was our most comical president?
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WWD | Jacob Bernstein | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media