Debate Warmup: Palin's job is to do what vice presidential candidates never want to do in a debate: the wet work of gutting the other party's presidential candidate. Diagramming Palin; educating Palin; locating Palin; versifying Palin. Why should voters trust you, after you have made so
New York City Mayor Bloomberg wants an extra term in power. Nearly everyone celebrates Zuma's ouster of South Africa's health minister. Zimbabwe's economic crisis now one of the worst in world history. The world has a water shortage, not a food shortage. Libor-geddon
Bitter dividends for longtime shareholders of bank stocks. Constituents take down House of Representatives' website. Analysis that knows lunacy when it sees it: The Guilfoile-Warner Papers, TMN's new blog. There's nothing that can put this right in six months. Six questions for economist James
Op: McCain's "League of Democracies" would fail--it's people, not governments that drive foreign policy. Today's long read: Understand why people vote Republican, get a crash course in moral psychology, learn something valuable about unity. "There were many times the third
What stopped the Depression was a worldwide bloodbath. The bailout is about the past, not the future. Zakaria: "What she has to say is often, quite frankly, gibberish...a vapid emptying out of every catchphrase about economics that came into her head." Few noticed, but yesterday the Justice
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
