In the Washington Post, John Kerry defends Obama's willingness to engage with Iran. Though slated by both President Bush and his presumptive Republican successor John McCain, Obama has
In a mammoth essay in the New Yorker, George Packer charts the demise of the current conservative era of US politics. The "Sunbelt conservatism", shepherded by Nixon, that
Following our posts in recent days on race in the Appalachian primary contests, this al-Jazeera video offers a glimpse of the kind of obstacles that lie before a politics that
The Jack and Jill Politics blog takes issue with Hillary Clinton's tactics in Florida, whose delegates she's trying to sneak into the convention. She equates her
Hillary Clinton once more trounced Barack Obama in an Appalachian primary, winning Kentucky by a commanding 36 percentage points. As in West Virginia, at least 20% of voters claimed that
Barack Obama is marginally in front of John McCain in the polls, but it may be another statistical measure that causes concern for the Republican. The Democrat is far ahead
Barack Obama became the first American presidential candidate to visit the reservation of the Crow nation. He was adopted there with the Crow name of "One Who Helps People
Politico.com breaks down the key factors that will shape today's primary in Kentucky. Will John Edwards' endorsement swing working-class white voters towards Barack Obama? Or will
The American Prospect - The Nation's more wonkish, DC-based little sister - hosts a (un)surprisingly insipid debate on the future of American "liberal internationalism". It
In the South Jerusalem blog, Gershom Gorenberg makes the case for why Obama, of all the presidential candidates, would be Israel's best option. It's quite a
The Washington Post catalogues numerous incidents of horrific racism during the West Virginia primary, including a voter who asked for Obama to be lynched. On the Daily Kos, John K
Speaking in Ohio - a crucial battleground in November - McCain dreams up the state of affairs in Iraq five years down the road:
By January 2013, America has welcomed
