Name the last governor you know of -- ever -- who quit. At any time. Out of the blue, unprompted. Other than being appointed to a higher job...or indicted. Just quit.
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
For all of Sarah Palin's ambitions to be America's first PILF, it will never happen.
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Earlier this summer, when Sarah Palin announced her early retirement from the gubernatorial post in Alaska, there was, naturally, a lot of speculatio...
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
I've just returned from Alaska, where I conducted interviews and archival research for a book on Palin, and many of those I spoke to in the Last Frontier, from across the political spectrum, noted that Palin was fixated on Obama.
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Does life seem weirder and crazier than normal these days? Do you feel like you've fallen down a rabbit hole or gotten sucked into the twilight zone?...
Caryl Rivers | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics
Sarah is a tintype of what we used to be -- or who we believed we were: rugged individuals who charged across the continent, ripping up trees and taming the prairies.
Inside Radio | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Alaska's now former Governor is coy about her future political plans, but radio is at least one option she's leaving on the table. While not exactly ...
Robin Lakoff | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
It's not clear whether Palin is a legitimate player in the poetry game but at least the "found poetry" theory offers an explanation of Palin's complex role in our current political drama.
Jim David | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Palin insults our intelligence by making nonsensical speeches and dredging up hoary political clichés thinking we won't notice and then gets mad when we notice.
Ross Hyzer | Posted 08.27.2009 | Comedy
Just as the cagey Poles continued to rely on horse power well into the mechanized era, so too is the continued greatness of the United States dependent on pouring money into finding and hoarding fossil fuels.
Ben Wyskida | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
"Palin-land:" where Sarah Milhous Palin barnstorms the country arguing that drilling can stop climate change, tax cuts can stop the recession and "family values" can win the day.
Diane Tucker | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media
Heads up, Ms. Palin, because a Web site with your name on it is stealing my blog content: so it's gloves off, "Maverick."
Huffingtion Post/AP | Posted 08.26.2009 | Politics
(AP) FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Sarah Palin stepped down Sunday as Alaska governor to write a book and build a right-of-center coalition, but she left ...
vanityfair.com | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
If you watched Sarah Palin's resignation speech, you know one thing: her high-priced speechwriters moved back to the Beltway long ago. Just how poorl...
AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics
UNALAKLEET, Alaska — She was greeted like a rock star in Unalakleet, a fishing village on the Bering Sea. She danced with Eskimos in Kotzebue. A...
AP | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Resigning Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she and her husband are packing their family's possessions at the governor's mansion ...
Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura called Sarah Palin a "quitter" on CNN's Larry King Live last night. "She is a quitter. Let me put it to you this ...
Ben Carmichael | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green
Palin's argument is so dependent on established Republican strategy that is reads like a grab bag of worn-out phrases.
John McNamara | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Like Michael Jackson, Sarah Palin, more than anything else, is a weirdo. Is she Jackson-level weird? Not yet. But she hasn't even been famous eleven months and she's plenty weird already.
Michael Conniff | Posted 08.14.2009 | Entertainment
Two out of every three Republicans believe news of global climate change is "exaggerated" -- the same margin as those who want Sarah Palin to remain "a major national political figure."
Michael Sigman | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
The most risible language contortions this side of Dick Cheney's tortured definitions of "torture" surround mavericky Sarah Palin, whose regular butchering of the English language rivals that of George W. Bush.
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Each Palin disaster, instead of spelling the end of her, sets the story up for a new chapter -- even if it's a new disaster.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Levi Johnston appeared on the "Today" show Monday morning to talk about, you guessed it, Sarah Palin's resignation. Bristol Palin's former fiance, who...
Beth Armogida | Posted 08.13.2009 | Comedy
When you're a Governor with the goal of a national office, you don't throw in the towel. Sure, you may wear the towel in front of campaign staffers in your hotel room, but you don't just throw it in.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics