The Nation -- Good policy is rarely if ever set in the rush to an election.
The Nation -- For all the talk about Afghanistan being the "right war," and with both Obama and McCain insisting that they want to send thousands of additional US forces there, our British allies have let the camel, so to speak, out of the bag. Meanwhile, more and more information is coming out to confirm that the government of Afghanistan is negotiating with (gasp!) the Taliban. This is important stuff.
The Nation -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is expected to name fellow Goldman Sachs alum, Neel Kashkari, to oversee the government's $700 billion Superfund cleanup of Wall Street's toxic assets.
In late September 2006, Republicans knew they faced a difficult political landscape, though few anticipated the party would lose as many seats as they did. Then, on September 29, Florida Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned amid charges of inappropriate relations with young House pages, a moment many call a tipping point that cost the GOP majorities in both chambers.
After three trial voyages, the humanitarian missions of the US Navy's hospital ship Mercy and other vessels have become fixtures in America's security posture in Asia and the Pacific.
The Nation -- Consumer activist Ralph Nader railed against the deregulations that made possible the orgy of greed that led to the current banking crisis. He warned that the crisis was coming. He challenged the members of Congress and presidential candidates to address it when other the politicians were arguing about whether it was fair to compare Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Sarah Palin to a pig.
The Nation -- After the McCain campaign unloaded the proverbial kitchen sink onto Barack Obama this weekend, the Obama campaign responded forcefully by reminding voters about McCain's tainted association with disgraced S&L magnate Charles Keating.
QUEBEC -- Winter has come early in this glorious French-Canadian city, which sits like a genteelly aging queen above the St. Lawrence River, fed by the roiling waters of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The winds were blowing December, instead of October, and hail was in the frigid air.
A candidate's idealism can evoke feelings beyond resultsIn response to the Oct. 3 Opinion piece, "Dare I believe Obama can win?": I so rarely am moved by columns these days. So many people have an opinion on just about everything that even the Internet seems overcrowded with comments on minutia that hardly affect anyone.
The base of the Republican Party -- a dwindling but still significant group -- clings to a handful of pseudo-facts that don't hold up to serious scrutiny but that still occupy a central place in GOP ideology.
The Nation -- The Wall Street Journal headline read: "Stocks Stumble as Credit Crisis Spreads."
The Court of Peeves, Crotchets & Irks opens its autumn assizes with a motion from Jeff Horner in Mableton, Ga. He asks the court to abolish the use of "woman" as an adjective. Specifically, he moves to end the identification of Sarah Palin as a "woman candidate."
Cambridge, Mass. - We use e-mail for everything from business negotiations to quick I-love-yous. Because e-mail resembles a telephone conversation, we too often assume it's private.
Washington - To drill or not to drill is the wrong question.
The Nation -- President Bush did not wait long to begin the redistribution of wealth upward.
LOS ANGELES -- I would like to pay due deference to the Republican candidate for vice president of the United States. I am happy for her that she was not asked a question during last Thursday night's "debate" that she could not robo-answer with memorized talking points.
The Nation -- "We're playing offense," McCain senior advisor Greg Strimple told reporters on a conference call yesterday. "To say we're on defense is not true."
The talk everywhere -- in the newspapers, on cable TV, on Wall Street, in European and Asian markets -- is of an economic meltdown. That's too narrow a perspective. We're witnessing a far broader meltdown.
Fast Internet access is becoming as essential as a phone. In fact, a high-quality connection can even provide a substitute for phone lines. Happily, both presidential candidates call for government to expand high-speed Web access, as many other countries have done to advance their economies.