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  • The Tactical Fallacy

    by Patrick Appel Brendan Nyhan argues that the media often incorrectly "concludes that candidates won or lost because of their tactical choices." The problem is that any reasonable political tactic ch...
  • About My Job: The Indologist

    by Conor Friedersdorf A reader writes: My field is Indology, the reconstruction and analysis of ancient and medieval India through the reconstruction and analysis of her texts. The first thing most pe...
  • Yglesias Award Nominee

    by Chris Bodenner Chris Matthews loses that loving feeling: Does he really use a teleprompter in meetings? Ed Morrissey partially defends the president. Barack Obama - Chris...
  • Eyeing Iowa, Ctd

    by Chris Bodenner Gabriel Sherman suggests that Palin's upcoming Des Moines speech is a head fake: For Palin, running for president is partly a kind of profit center. "It’s an industry to write abou...
  • Brief Thoughts on Teacher Pay

    by Conor Friedersdorf In the "teacher wars" here's where I stand: I think America's teachers should be paid more in money and prestige, that the discretion of principals is a better way to determine r...
  • Trainwreck Alert

    The evil part of me is enjoying the schadenfreude of watching Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) totally botch her opening statement in last night's gubernatorial debate:... Jan Brewer - United States -...
  • Too Late?

    Christina Romer, the outgoing chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, calls for more stimulus: "The only surefire ways for policymakers to substantially increase aggregate demand in t...
  • Drama Queens?

    Corporate Tea Party-backer FreedomWorks made a very big deal last week about having to move its DC headquarters to a different, more secure building because of all of the threats it's received from li...
  • Don't Try This At Your Own Hooka Bar

    Would be hate crime ends poorly for the assailant.... Hate crime - Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations - Hate - Crime - Gay Lesbian and Bisexual...
  • NRA Has Sense Of Humor?

    Chuck Norris makes a cameo in a new video produced by the NRA that actually made me chuckle.... Chuck Norris - Video - Sport - Shopping - Mike Huckabee...
  • Obama campaign head gets big book deal

    David Plouffe has agreed to a seven-figure deal to write a book about last year's presidential election. “The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory” will...
  • Officials turn down Franken request

    Democrat Al Franken is asking the Minnesota governor and secretary of state to issue an election certificate that would let him take office in the Senate.
  • Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent

    The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.
  • Franken lead at 49 with absentees left to count

    Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 49- vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with almost all of the counting in Minnesota's Senate race done.
  • Minn. Senate winner won't be known in 2008

    With the state Canvassing Board ready to award the last pile of votes in Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, Democrat Al Franken clung to a narrow lead over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The final c...
  • Round Two

    Mitchell announces second set of peace talks to take place September 14-15 in the Middle East.
  • Thursday Briefing

    Mideast talks, rig explosion top Gibbs' session with reporters. Details here.
  • Report: Rig Explodes Off Gulf Coast

    Coast Guard says blast occurred west of BP spill site. Developing...
  • Mideast Talks Underway

    Clinton, Netanyahu and Abbas call for progress, emphasize security needs in remarks at outset of direct negotiations Thursday. Get highlights here.
  • Arizona Escalation

    Justice sues Sherrif Joe Arpaio for allegedly stonewalling discrimination probe.
  • If You Build It...

    Dear Imam Feisal,...
  • Reviewing Obama’s Iraq Speech

    Washington—By insisting Tuesday evening that "it's time to turn the page," President Obama was talking about more than the Iraq War, and doing much more than reviving one of his most e...
  • Goodbye to Berlin

    In early February, the top financial officials of seven major industrialized countries gathered in Canada to mull the state of the world economy. To grease their interactions, the Canadians had create...
  • It’s the Politicking, Stupid!

    Washington—President Obama's address to the nation on Iraq this week underscores the agony of his presidency, and its core political problem. Seen from the inside, the administration is an aston...
  • Beck on Top

    Almost no one who attended Saturday’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall seems able to cogently explain what, exactly, took place. Was it a thinly disguised political rally...
  • The top of Pence's priority list

    THE TOP OF PENCE'S PRIORITY LIST.... We don't know if or when congressional Republicans will release an actual policy agenda. For that matter, we don't know just how successful Republicans will be in...
  • Not ready for primetime

    NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME.... We talked earlier Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's (R) remarkable opening statement in a gubernatorial debate last night, in which the far-right incumbent appeared deeply confused...
  • Vote first, answer questions later

    VOTE FIRST, ANSWER QUESTIONS LATER.... The most common phenomenon in American politics is Republican candidates promising to cut spending. As a matter of economics, it's a dubious idea -- when an econ...
  • Thursday's campaign round-up

    THURSDAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn't generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers. * As was rumored yesterda...
  • Brewer's painfully long pauses

    BREWER'S PAINFULLY LONG PAUSES.... I've seen politicians freeze on the air when confronted with a tough question for which they're unprepared, but going blank during a debate's opening statement? This...
  • Offshore platform explosion and fire in Gulf of Mexico

    Details are still emerging, but here's some of what is being reported about the explosion of an offshore platform earlier today 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay, Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico: The...
  • AZ-Gov: Jan Brewer's rough debate outing

    It was the first debate of the Arizona governor's race, and likely the last, as there's no way incumbent Republican Gov. Jan Brewer chances another disaster like this one. It started out embarrassing...
  • Earl update

    At 11 AM EDT Hurricane Earl's track is mostly unchanged from yesterday evening. The storm has intensified slightly and is now a strong cat 4 with winds in excess of 140 mph and higher gusts. Condition...
  • "Guiding assumptions" of American governance

    I'm not trying to be naturally contrarian, here -- really. But in a back-and-forth argument with Digby over a review of Markos' new book, the American Prospect reviewer dropped this nugget of wisdom:...
  • NH-Sen: Report: Ayotte shares blame in Ponzi oversight failure

    The FRM Ponzi scheme may have been the first significant sign of trouble for former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte in the New Hampshire Senate race. Which means that two weeks before the primary, with...
  • Egypt's Mubarak, Israel, and Obama

    One fascinating subplot of the Middle East peace talks in Washington this week is the role of Egyptian president/dictator Hosni Mubarak. The 82-year old Mubarak, who has long governed Egypt with an ir...
  • It Ain't Just a River in Egypt

    TIME's Katy Steinmetz files this report: Like a deserted wife who, years after the fact, still insists her husband is due home any day, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka seems a bit out of touch. Makin...
  • Health Reform is Good for Small Business Employees

    Despite what you may have heard from Republican critics of health care reform, the new law may actually be good for people who work for small businesses. I've written about this previously, but the vi...
  • The 20 Years' War...and counting

    "The American combat mission in Iraq has ended," President Obama told the nation Tuesday night, but the 50,000 U.S. troops still on the ground there will continue to pocket combat pay of up to $680 a...
  • Morning Must Reads: Talk

    Reuters --Direct Israeli-Palestinian talks begin today at the State Department. --Ethan Bronner writes Bibi has the power to deal. --Ben Smith thinks the whole affair has a fly-by-the-seat-of-their p...
  • Mideast peace talks stir hope but few illusions

    

 President Obama and leaders from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority spoke Wednesday at the White House. (PHOTO CREDIT: Getty Images)
 (CNN) - The latest round of peace talks...
  • Mideast leaders to meet every two weeks

    (CNN) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to meet again on September 14 and 15, and roughly every two weeks thereafter, according to former Sen. George Mitchell, President Barack Obama's spe...
  • TRENDING: Brewer takes heat for not addressing beheading claim

    A frustrated Brewer wouldn't answer reporter's questions about her beheading statement. (CNN) - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer sparred with her Democratic opponent in an at-times contentious debate...
  • New prediction in battle for the House

    A new forecast predicts Republicans will pick up 47 House seats. Washington (CNN) – It's the biggest guessing game in this town: Will the Republicans pick up enough House seats in November's mid...
  • 2012 Watch: Is Barbour the anti-Obama?

    Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he won't decide about a presidential run until after the midterm elections. Washington (CNN) - Haley Barbour, the chairman of the Republican Governors Associat...
  • White House Watched

    Today's column is my last for The Washington Post. And the first thing I want to say is thank you. Thank you to all you readers, e-mailers, commenters, questioners, Facebook friends and Twitterers for...
  • Still Fighting

    It says a lot about this presidency that there is so much else going on that the public has almost forgotten that our troops are still fighting two wars. And yet, there is big trouble on both fronts.
  • Quick Takes

    Colum Lynch writes in The Washington Post: "The United Nations' top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try...
  • Late Night Humor

    Jon Stewart shows a clip of Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer criticizing Obama for his restrained response to the Iranian crackdown. Stewart's response: "You can't believe Obama puts our natio...
  • A Tale of Two Songs

    What a difference two years makes. 2008: 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPoPw9zgvQ...
  • Polls Show Strickland in Trouble

    A pair of polls today suggest that incumbent Ohio Democratic Governor Ted Strickland finds himself in deep trouble. This morning, Rasmussen Reports released a survey finding former Republican Congress...
  • Burr in the Danger Zone in North Carolina

    According to the latest Public Policy Polling (D) poll (8/27-8/29, 724 LV, MOE +/- 3.6%), Richard Burr leads Elaine Marshall by a narrow 43 percent to 38 percent margin. This is especially troubling n...
  • Portman Maintains Lead in Ohio Senate Race

    In one of the most watched Senate races this year, Republican Rob Portman continues to lead Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher in the race for retiring Republican Sen. George Voinovich's seat, according to a ne...
  • A Real Raese in the Mountain State?

    The latest Rasmussen Reports poll (8/29/10, 500 LVs, MOE +/- 4.5%) shows Governor Joe Manchin's lead over businessman and two-time Senate candidate John Raese down to single digits. The Governor, who...

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