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
After calling it irrelevant, Bush expected to recognize the U.N.'s practicality at the general assembly. FBI searches apartment of university student thought to have hacked Palin's email--the IP addresses, however, don't match. Today's long read: Thomas Frank on how modern
Quick, suggests Bush, pass this bailout package without scrutiny, before it's too late! Capitalism as we have known it is no more. The free-market surrenders, and a new, regulated age begins. Letter to Bernanke and Paulson: "My student loans are too big and it is hurting
Rarely uttered in previous campaigns, the gloves are off for "the L word," as Obama accuses McCain of lying. They have to lie--the truth isn't their friend right now. Sorkin's dream meeting between Bartlet and Obama. Op: Obama needs an economic catch-phrase
Clinton: Basic, quality care for millions of women is at stake. The first time I heard a woman describe her time in Iraq in glowing terms, I was taken aback. Why Oprah is beloved in Saudi Arabia. McCain wants to distance himself from the Bush Administration. But this assault on
Palin killed the bridge to nowhere, but kept building the $26 million road that led to it--and now goes nowhere. Study suggests peace in Iraq didn't result from the surge, but from five years of ethnic violence. Obama is ahead in the polls and still hasn'
