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(12/10/07 5:00am)
Everyone knew this year's Republican presidential nomination would be a more interesting affair than its Democratic counterpart, and that's generally been true. But despite a smattering of newsworthy events over the summer, things seemed to be in stasis until very recently. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney led in crucial early states, but former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani had led in national polls. It looked like it was going to be a two-man race, but now we've got a game on our hands.
(11/07/07 5:00am)
What's the point in being up in every poll if it seems like the whole world is against you? No doubt something like that thought is endlessly coursing through Hillary Clinton's brain-what little part that retains any capacity for emotion.
(10/24/07 4:00am)
Don't look now, but Mike Huckabee might successfully climb into (the bottom of) the top tier of Republican presidential candidates. Although the reaction most commonly elicited in mentioning the former Arkansas governor's name is "Who?," he no doubt hopes that will start to change.
(10/10/07 4:00am)
It's easy enough to split the vast western portion of the United States into two subregions and politically stereotype them. Thus, we have the so-called Left Coast, with San Francisco, Seattle and other tree-hugging, latte-sipping, minimal-hygiene meccas. We also have the Mountain West, as red as the coast is blue. But this Blue Coast-Red Mountains construct is not only lacking in complexity, it's becoming increasingly outdated as well.
(09/26/07 4:00am)
The Republican Party seems exceedingly melancholy. Not everywhere, mind you-congressional Democrats are so riven by internal strife as to provide only token opposition on many issues-but when it comes to the matter of next year's presidential nomination, the Grand Old Party is unsure of itself. In a sense, Republicans are reliving the Democratic quandary of 2004, an agonizing choice between ideology and electability.
(09/12/07 4:00am)
In Washington, Iraq has unequivocally taken center stage. This week is all about two men, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and their report to Congress and the nation about the current state of affairs in Iraq.
(08/29/07 4:00am)
France may be headed in a new direction, as its new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, speaks seriously of domestic reform and puts a new foot forward internationally. Traditional American perceptions of one of our oldest allies have remain fixed for decades: largely despised by conservatives and viewed with mixed regard by others, while almost universally regarded as little more than wine-swilling, chain-smoking gourmands.
(04/19/07 4:00am)
It's going to be an interesting summer. And putting it that way is a dramatic understatement. In the coming months, Republicans and Democrats will navigate the political landscape with an eye toward next fall's elections; presidential candidates will do the same.
(04/05/07 4:00am)
Western Europe is wasting away. Sclerotic economies are unable to offer opportunities to an often restless populace while a serious crisis of identity has produced some disquieting results.
(03/22/07 4:00am)
A capital city that's recently seen significant political upheaval is now hanging on the edge of bitter civil war; the new Democratic majority seems ready to go to war with itself.
(03/08/07 5:00am)
Rudy Giuliani is the newly anointed Republican front-runner. The fact that a man on his third marriage with a history of infidelity, the occasional penchant for cross-dressing and gay friends among his inner circle could claim such a title in the party of Bush (as well as Dobson and Falwell) is hard to believe.
(02/22/07 5:00am)
Robert Ford produced an uproar last week when he said that nominating Sen. Barack Obama for president would be a disaster for the Democratic Party. Ford gave voice to the fears-and hopes-of many pundits and activists when he said that "every Democrat running on that ticket next year would lose, because he's black and he's top of the ticket."
(01/25/07 5:00am)
An honest question: how often do you glance at politics? Ever consider what today's actions (or inactions) mean for tomorrow, for a future when it's our generation at the fore? If not, no surprise. But while we're allowing Washington to shape the nation we'll inherit, our leaders are making decisions, or refusing to make decisions, that will come back to haunt us in the future.
(01/11/07 5:00am)
Flying back to Durham this weekend, I spoke with the middle-class mother of a precocious fifth grader. Her son had attended a rigorous and disciplined private school for his first few years of education, and then transferred to a public elementary school.
