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Oh no they didn’t
Joan Walsh
Counting the ways in which Fox News calling Barack Obama's wife his "baby mama" is so, so, so wrong.
Polling the polls
Justin Jouvenal
Don't look now, but Barack Obama leads John McCain by more than George Bush ever led John Kerry.
Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act
Glenn Greenwald
"Security subsists, too, in fidelity to freedom's first principles. Chief among these are freedom from arbitrary and unlawful restraint."
The king of beer mergers
Andrew Leonard
Will patriotic Americans stand by while a foreign brewery chugs down red-white-and-blue Budweiser? Or will they say, good riddance!
Obama won’t be at town hall tonight
Alex Koppelman
John McCain had wanted to kick off his proposed series at New York City's Federal Hall, but the launch will have to wait for another time.
Coming to a Kabuki theater near you — the search for a vice president
Walter Shapiro
Every four years, the who-for-No.-2 drama follows the same insincere rituals, from comically straining to soothing the party's base.
Fox News calls Michelle Obama “Obama’s baby mama”
Alex Koppelman
An on-screen graphic displayed the description during a segment about attacks on the wife of the presumptive Democratic nominee.
James Johnson resigns from Obama team
Alex Koppelman
Johnson couldn't survive the controversy over his ties to a company involved in the subprime crisis.
The mystery of Obamacon-ism
Andrew Leonard
Milton Friedman's son thinks Barack Obama is not so bad. What has the world come to?
McCain: Timeline of Iraq withdrawal “not too important”
Alex Koppelman
Democrats are taking advantage of some unartful comments from John McCain, but his campaign says that his words are being twisted.
Horton ad maker strikes again
Alex Koppelman
In a new spot, Floyd Brown -- who produced the infamous Willie Horton ad -- attacks Barack Obama on religion.
Going down with the Titanic?
Joan Walsh
Chris Matthews frames the decision between Obama and McCain as whether to stay in the big doomed ship or jump into a lifeboat.
Not quite Americans
Whitney Joiner
Sexual assault, enslavement, no medical care -- Peter Orner, author of an oral history of illegal immigrants, discusses the nightmares experienced by this vulnerable population.
Obama’s best veep choice
Camille Paglia
Here's a hint: She's not Hillary! Plus: Talk radio's paranoid delusions and a Brazilian diva Madonna could aspire to.
He’s a young black guy, and that’s a problem for some folks
Garrison Keillor
But Barack Obama has gifts that transcend race and his own slim r
Discussion of potential Obama running mates heats up
Alex Koppelman
The people helping Barack Obama choose a vice-presidential nominee were on Capitol Hill Tuesday, but one prominent possibility took his name out of the running.
Dem congressman won’t endorse Obama
Alex Koppelman
Oklahoma Rep. Dan Boren says he will vote for Barack Obama, at the polls and the party convention, but that Obama is too liberal for his constituents.
Quote of the day
Alex Koppelman
Fox's E.D. Hill says Barack and Michelle Obama's "fist bump" wasn't reminiscent of terrorists after all.
Clinton asks her delegates to support Obama
Alex Koppelman
Hillary Clinton has been calling delegates pledged to her and asking them to vote for her one-time rival, but hasn't technically "released" them.
Relax, liberals. You’ve already won
Michael Lind
No matter who prevails at the ballot box in November, John McCain or Barack Obama, the four-decade-long conservative counterrevolution is over.
The mix master
Gary Kamiya
Barack Obama's candidacy spells the end of the one-drop rule and the beginning of a painful but necessary exploration of the real meaning of race in America.
Obama camp reacts to Johnson story
Alex Koppelman
In talking points, Barack Obama's campaign says revelations about loans taken out by a member of its veep search team are "overblown."
All the president’s economic advisors
Andrew Leonard
Austan Goolsbee is ready for another close-up, and a Clinton veteran joins Obama's team. Cue the econoblogospheric chatter.
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