Americans who are afraid that they may have a house foreclosed on don't have much sympathy for someone whining that questioning them about their seven or eight homes is just mean.
Daniel Burrell | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
Obama must challenge McCain on the single issue where he remains strongest. Without the national security and foreign policy legs to stand on, the McCain candidacy goes nowhere.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
There has been an amazing confluence of events, and If McCain survives the last 24 hours, I'm not sure what it will take to stop him.
Paul Slansky | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
If that Democratic convention next week isn't a Republican bloodbath then it's way past time for the party to go the way of the Whigs.
AJ Rossmiller | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
When pundits make hyperventilating claims about Obama's alleged campaign appeasement, it is vital to note that Obama has played this game before. Those who are calling for an all-out assault against McCain have short memories.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
The huge variability between different states makes it very hard for any candidate to run on a coherent economic platform that has national appeal.
Dakis Hagen | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
While we Brits have a waning national church and the French their institutionalized laicité, Americans have a kaleidoscope to keep them excited.
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
Racism is the bully in the schoolyard of American politics and culture. One does not overcome a bully by ignoring it but, rather, by confronting it and exposing it for what it is.
Johann Hari | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
McCain has decided to build up an innocuous-sounding alternative called a 'League of Democracies -- an alliance of countries the US labels democratic that can be used to legitimate US military actions.
Kate Kelly | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
It is interesting to note that Denver has hosted the Democrats one time previously -- exactly 100 years ago, in July of 1908.
Paul Hunt | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home
I want us to work, Barack, I really do. And if I sound demanding, that's because I am -- I've been hurt too many times not to be.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
Obama has slipped below the magic 270 number for the first time since he became the Democratic presumptive nominee, and McCain has just about caught up with him.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
Here's the thing - people are going to vote against Obama because he's black. This is the country we live in. And I know, he's only half black, yadda...
Emily Pease | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home
The simple-minded bumper stickers are back, and boy do they look good on the rear window of a 4x4: "Drill Here Drill Now." The policy they propose, though, doesn't look so good.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
In Rick Warren's Evangelical quiz show, McCain succeeded in making the abandonment of his first wife to appear as an example of his human frailty rather than his disloyalty and opportunism.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Our choice this year seems to be between the over-ripe and the under-cooked -- someone about whom too much is known, and someone about whom we know too little.
The Washington Post | Mary Ann Akers | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
If you're one of those political junkies who can hardly bear the anxiety of waiting for Barack Obama to choose his vice presidential running mate, thi...
Seth Grahame-Smith | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
For all the attention you've lavished on John McCain's Saddleback "victory," not one of you has asked him any of the obvious follow-ups.
Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
There are already over 400 reported parties for the two presidential conventions. Hosts include Qwest, Eli Lilly, AT&T, the RIAA, PhRMA, and lobbying giant Patton Boggs.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Obama needn't abandon his cool to bring some heat to the campaign. He simply needs to use his rhetorical gifts to sharpen the contrast between McCain's old and failed agenda and his own.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
The last Democratic presidential candidate who failed to engage, who abjured ruthlessness because it wasn't consistent with the noble kind of politics he wanted America to practice, was Michael Dukakis.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
The middle class can't exercise their political power if we allow Congress to function in a vacuum.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Andrew Bacevich never let's you easily and conveniently point the finger at rogue political leaders, showing them as part of the continuum that includes the American citizen.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
We all thought it was down to a two-man field. Obama vs. McCain. But it's turned out to be a three-man race: Obama vs the Old, Honorable McCain and his political doppelganger the New, Unprincipled McCain.
Erik Lundegaard | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
The Republican National Committee sent me a census the other day addressed to a "fellow Republican."
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