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Rod Blagojevich’s bad hair day
Edward McClelland
The perfectly coiffed politician is under arrest, sunk by his own vanity. But what did you expect? He's an Illinois governor.
What do the Clintons have on Obama?
Camille Paglia
What experience does Hillary have to run State? Plus: Avoiding the Muslim issue on Mumbai, and anti-Proposition 8 activists threaten to set back gay rights.
A New York kind of holiday
Garrison Keillor
Christmas is all about pleasure, food, bright lights, high spirits, glittering trinkets, razzmatazz. It's pure Broadway.
Axelrod: Obama, Blagojevich didn’t discuss Senate seat
Alex Koppelman
A senior advisor to the president-elect says he was mistaken when he told a Chicago television station otherwise last month.
Obama: I had no contact with the governor about Senate seat
Alex Koppelman
The president-elect says he never spoke with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about his vacant post.
Fitzgerald: “A political corruption crime spree”
Mike Madden
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald lays out the case against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in a Chicago news conference.
Rod Blagojevich has had better days
Alex Koppelman
The complaint against the Illinois governor is explosive, damning and far-reaching -- even his wife is caught up in it.
“I’ve got this thing and it’s f—ing golden”
Salon Staff
The federal complaint that details Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged attempt to trade Barack Obama's former Senate seat for personal gain.
Illinois Gov. Blagojevich arrested
Alex Koppelman
Federal authorities arrested Blagojevich, a Democrat, on Tuesday; among other things, they're investigating his process for selecting Barack Obama's replacement.
Obama’s single most important reform
Michael Lind
How the president-elect can get the money for the massive public works he proposes -- without raising taxes.
The born conspiracy
Mike Madden
Sanity was nowhere to be found at the press conference held by the alarmists who believe Obama is not a U.S. citizen.
The Jeremiah Wright ad McCain didn’t want you to see
Alex Koppelman
The McCain campaign had a spot attacking Barack Obama over his former pastor ready to go, but never pulled the trigger.
Quote of the day
Alex Koppelman
Mark Penn explains that when he called Barack Obama "unelectable," he really meant Obama was a very strong candidate.
Gen. Hayden and the claimed irrelevance of presidential appointments
Glenn Greenwald
Since when did people start believing that high-level appointments and Cabinet secretaries were irrelevant?
Spend, Obama, spend! And save jobs
Joe Conason
The first thing Obama should do is use federal funds to keep public employees from joining the swelling ranks of the unemployed.
Supreme Court won’t hear Obama citizenship case
Alex Koppelman
Without comment, the justices declined to consider a lawsuit that contends both Barack Obama and John McCain are ineligible for the presidency.
Hildebrand writes to liberal critics of Obama
Alex Koppelman
The president-elect's deputy campaign manager says Obama "was elected to be the president of all the people -- not just those on the left."
The Republican comeback of 2010
Thomas Schaller
The midterm elections are only two years away. Can the Democrats defend their gains?
Salon Book Awards 2008
Laura Miller
Our picks for the 10 most pleasurable fiction and nonfiction reading experiences of the year.
The CIA and its reporter friends: Anatomy of a backlash
Glenn Greenwald
The coordinated, successful effort to implant false story lines about John Brennan illustrates the power the intelligence community wields over political debates.
A Democratic insider’s call for a new presidential secrecy power
Glenn Greenwald
Matt Miller of the Center for American Progress wants to crush one of the few remaining means by which Americans learn about their government: disclosure by presidential aides
A spy in the house of Narnia
Rebecca Traister
Salon's Laura Miller on how the imaginative world of C.S. Lewis inspired her love of reading, as well as her career as a critic.
Those other elections
David Sirota
With our national fixation on Obama and the White House, it's easy to overlook local results and the real progressive mandate.
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