Given a long life and a little luck Barack Obama promises to be a much better president than the Jack Kennedy I can recall.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 08.26.2008 | Politics
Call me corny -- but tonight as I watched Michelle Obama and her daughters, I couldn't help flashing back to the beautiful young family who personified elegance and hope in 1960.
Jeffrey Jena | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
Who isn't for a world without nuclear weapons? I would like to know what Barack is going to do about Iran. Let me tell you how many of our nukes Barack is going to get rid of if he is elected: zero.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media
Earlier today I wrote a post about all the "Ich Bin Ein" headlines that were springing up around Barack Obama's visit to Berlin, in a callback to the ...
The Huffington Post | Dan Duray/Katharine Zaleski | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
Major news organizations are drawing comparisons between Barack Obama's speech in Berlin today and those of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. (They w...
Robert Silvers | Posted 05.26.2008 | Home
If JFK's multi-act dance with Krushchev taught us anything, it's that negotiation isn't weakness. As to the historical analogies, bring 'em on. There's worse than being compared to a Kennedy.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
I don't think the filmmakers for Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who are evil or that they deliberately set out to send an awful message. But somehow it seems worse that they didn't notice.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
It is time we recognize that our search for a great president is also a search for our better selves. Finally, a political litmus test that matters: Which presidential candidate can lead us to do more good than we think we're capable of?
David D. Burstein | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
Americans are coming to understand that issues like the environment and healthcare are long-term inter-generational issues that have much more to do with how we will be living a generation from now.
New York Times | Caroline Kennedy | Posted 01.26.2008 | Politics
OVER the years, I've been deeply moved by the people who've told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did ...
The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) presidential campaign is raising contributions at the rate of $1 million a day so far this year, campaign manager David P...
Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Here's the cover for this week's issue of The Weekly Standard, excitingly available on newsstands now. Here, once again, we encounter the renowned ju...
Election Central | Greg Sargent | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
The Tears are now officially an issue in Campaign 2008. Obama's national campaign co-chair, Jesse Jackson, Jr., just went on MSNBC and appeared to qu...
Political Radar | Kate Snow and Jennifer Parker | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
The woman whose empathetic question -- "how do you do it?" -- sparked uncharacteristic emotion Monday from Sen. Hillary Clinton ended up voting for Se...
Political Wire | Stuart Rothenberg | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
While some will suggest that Sen. Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire victory can be traced to her emotional comments shortly before the primary, and othe...
New York Sun | PETER KIEFER | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
It seemed next to impossible just a few days ago: the idea of Senator Obama competing against -- much less beating -- Senator Clinton on her home turf...
Huffington Post | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
At the end of a dusty, dirt road lined with mango and mimosa trees, Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives sat outside on plastic chairs surrounded by chicke...
NYT's The Caucus | Sara Wheaton | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
As they barnstorm through New Hampshire, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband are often introduced by supporters who once backed another can...
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Sherman Yellen | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics