In case you need to hope or panic about the economy: the best-case scenario and the worst-case scenario. Bush: People, you just don't get it; people: You're damn right--and we'll drain our savings to prove it! Video: McCain's consistent
The true farce and disgrace is that this increasingly glassy-eyed old blunderer and war criminal...should be cited as an authority by either nominee. Hitchens on Kissinger. Fact checking: What McCain, Obama got wrong in the debate--and there was a lot. On McCain's fondness for gambling,
Yo: Just in time for November, TMN's new blog: The Guilfoile-Warner papers. Darien dinner with a Lehman trader; glinting the cocktails with Goldman-ites. History has shown what happens when a number becomes the central communications theme. Analysis of Bush's mistakes in selling the "
Oddly, the biggest obstacle to the bill...may be Republicans who refuse to go along with their own president. How McCain didn't help anything. "McCain Wins Debate" banner ad mysteriously appears on WSJ website--several hours before the debate begins. Multimedia: Video, photos, and transcriptions from
With no bailout deal set, and no reason to stick around D.C., McCain may attend the debate after all. A look back at Enron gives clues to our administration's inability in managing financial crisis. McCain's sudden arrival in D.C. may not have propelled bailout
Video: Letterman craters McCain for pausing his campaign, choosing Couric over Washington. Yes, presidential debates are important--sometimes dramatic and momentous, as these clips show. The GOP revels in rhetoric about never blinking--against terrorism, etc.--and now McCain? He's blinking Op: It took President Bush until Wednesday
FDR ran for office in the middle of the largest conflict in human history--twice. We can have a debate this Friday. "When the stock market crashed, FDR got on the TV and didn't just talk about the princes of greed." Biden misspeaks so often, it&
Palin meets Karzi, Urbe, Kissinger--her staff allows photo ops, but no questions. Lawrence Lessig compares Palin's experience to every other U.S. vice president. "Obama only has two "must-win" states while McCain has half a dozen." An interview with poll expert Nate
McCain campaign crafts "flow of fictional fan mail" to local newspapers (see their guidelines, talking points). "We have never had freedom of speech in Russia, so I don't really understand what could be stifled." Under Putin, investigative journalism finds last refuge on the radio.
Joe Biden returns to the media's radar, wooing middle class voters with words like "helluva" and "malarkey." Obama scales back ambitious 50-state strategy, abandoning Alaska, other hockey-crazed states. Republicans are fighting on racial grounds, even when express references to race are not
