When we awake Nov. 5, no failure of administration should have tarnished our outsize pride in our democracy. Election workers must rely on backup strategies, not litigation. As Election Day approacheth, the press prepares boilerplate responses, trying to avoid Messiah, winds of change cliches. In Indiana, call center workers protest
Iran confirms it's arming "liberation armies" in the Middle East. "Mr. Patience has run out of patience." The Dalai Lama gives up on China. What will change if Obama is president concerning Bush's "man-hunting machines" (not much). Ten of
U.S. troops conduct cross-border raid into Syria; Syria reports eight civilians killed. Oil prices tumble, financial crisis hits the Persian Gulf--cue the bank bailouts. Citing expanded gun laws under an Obama presidency, economic uncertainty, gun sales are on the rise. Civil War reenactment community shocked by shooting-
"Yes, I've found a flaw. I don't know how significant or permanent it is. But I've been very distressed by that fact." Congress lashes Greenspan. The volatility of global markets over the past weeks has undone years of gains by emerging economies.
There's a new bubble popping, and it ain't the housing slump or credit panic. Beane, Kerry, and Gingrich: "How to take American health care from worst to first." Krautheimer on voting for McCain: "I'd rather lose an election than lose my
Imprisoned GOP strategist explains how he tried to rig an election. Surowiecki: The American state that's the closest to a socialist paradise is, of course, Palin's own Alaska. On commitment contracts and social pressure, the psychology of encouraging friends to vote. With U.S. home foreclosures
Instapaper for the commute: The remaking of John McCain. Shopping for the clothes you can buy for $150,000; "no-Palin-costumes-please" poster for your Halloween party. Salon's slant a bit evident in "the punditocracy's seven biggest blunders of the 2008 election.
Records for the more than $150,000 the Republican National Committee has spent to clothe and accessorize Gov. Palin. The Atlantic's fantastic new project, "Think Again," asks interesting questions of Americans. The shortage in America isn't of scientists and engineers--it's of
As the U.S. stock market tumbles, al Qaeda websites rejoice, endorse McCain to continue the trend. Op: An al Qaeda appearance would hardly gift the election to McCain--after all, it was Bush who didn't catch bin Laden. Time op blogger loses McCain plane rights, brushes dirt
Two days after Barack Obama drew 100,000 supporters to a rally in St. Louis, John McCain attracted about 2,500 people to a field in this nearby suburb. Op: With Palin going rogue, it could mean she and McCain are hoping to save their respective--and separate--political futures.
