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Conservatives worry about McCain backslide on immigration
Ed Kilgore
Obama's not the only presidential candidate with "base issues" this week. Conservatives are getty antsy about McCain's renewed talk of comprehensive immigration reform.
Republicans fear black voter surge in the South
Ed Kilgore
Rep. Adam Putnam worries that black turnout could "swamp" Republicans in down-ballot races in the South. Is he right?
Was Obama’s FISA vote “calculated”?
Ed Kilgore
If Barack Obama's vote for FISA amendments was truly a political "calculation," he needs to check his math.
Betrayed by Obama
Joan Walsh
The Democrat's FISA sellout is unforgivable, but he's counting on supporters having no place else to go. And McCain's nutty neocon Iran talk helps him make his case.
Obama bites the bullet on FISA
Ed Kilgore
As the Senate approves amendments to FISA, Barack Obama gets hammered from two different directions.
Congress votes to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, legalize warrantless eavesdropping
Glenn Greenwald
Yet again, George Bush and Dick Cheney get everything they want from the Democratic-led Congress, this time to put a permanent, and harmless, end to their illegal spying scandal.
“Vote for the Udall nearest you”
Ed Kilgore
When the smoke clears on Nov. 4, odds are good that two new Democratic senators from the West will share a last name and a political legacy.
German chancellor, Berlin mayor bicker over Obama visit
Carsten Volkery
Berlin's mayor wants to grant Obama's wish to deliver a major speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate, but Angela Merkel has misgivings.
Obama hopes to go where JFK went before
Gregor Peter Schmitz
Barack Obama wants to hold a keynote speech on transatlantic relations in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. But don't call him a "European."
What did those 300 economists really endorse?
Ed Kilgore
On Monday John McCain's campaign released a list of 300 economists who were endorsing his new economic "plan." Turns out they hadn't read it.
The unwelcome guest at the GOP convention
Ed Kilgore
With John McCain trying desperately to separate himself from an unpopular incumbent, Republicans wonder what to do with George W. Bush at their convention.
Today’s coverup of surveillance crimes and Barack Obama
Glenn Greenwald
The Democratic nominee's support for this bill speaks volumes about what he is and isn't.
Who are you calling a “coot”?
Camille Paglia
Incoming! Readers demand answers about WASPs, Tim Russert and Obama's teleprompter skills.
John McCain’s radical tax plan
Justin Jouvenal
He voted against Bush's tax cuts, but now, despite a ballooning deficit, he wants to slash taxes even further -- with most of the benefits going to the rich.
At 96, he says he’s ready to go
Garrison Keillor
But I sense he wants to hang around until November, to see for himself whether Obama wins the White House.
One nation, not just speaking English
Andrew Leonard
Barack Obama wonders what's up with all those "English-only" whiners. Learn Spanish, already
Edwards opens door wider to veep bid
Ed Kilgore
John Edwards said today he'd accept an offer to run with Barack Obama this November.
Maliki’s timetable and McCain’s double bind
Ed Kilgore
Iraqi Prime Minister's call for a U.S. troop withdrawal timetable exposes Bush and McCain to the flip side of surge-o-mania.
Obama hires HRC women’s outreach director
Ed Kilgore
In another sign of Obama-Clinton reconciliation, the Obama campaign today announced it had hired Dana Singiser, Clinton's Director of Women's Outreach.
Obama proposes bankruptcy relief
Ed Kilgore
On Day Two of the presidential campaign trail's latest Economy Week, Barack Obama proposes changes in a controversial 2005 bankruptcy law.
The other “other woman” for veep
Ed Kilgore
If Barack Obama wants to choose a woman other than Hillary Clinton as his running-mate, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano commands some real attention.
Blurring the lines on Iraq
Ed Kilgore
Republicans are attacking Barack Obama on the war, claiming he's flip-flopped, but that allegation doesn't hold water.
Big speech, big venue
Ed Kilgore
Barack Obama's campaign has officially announced that the presumptive Democratic nominee will accept the nomination not at the convention site but at a 76,000-seat stadium nearby.
Barack by the books
Laura Miller
The works that have influenced Obama illustrate that he would be the most literary president in recent memory -- and one likely to govern from the center.
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