Rick Perlstein’s sprawling, rollicking book arrives hard on the heels of a contest of empathy-exhibitionism in which the two Democratic presidential candidates competed to see who could more ardently adore churchgoing, gun-owning, not-at-all-bitter working-class Pennsylvanians.
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Is Nixon THE One?
Guantanamo’s Long Shadow on U.S. Foreign Policy
WASHINGTON — When the Pentagon announced in March that Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood would become the senior American officer based in Pakistan, it reflected the military’s aim to put a crisis-tested veteran in a critical job at a pivotal time in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Big TV’s Big Secret: Ignoring Pentagon’s Propaganda Program
Even with countless media outlets available these days, a Sunday New York Times cover story could always be counted on to send a jolt through the television news cycle. But apparently that’s no longer the case.
Mark Your Calendars: May 20 is Obama’s (Official) Victory Party
Not long after the polls close in the May 20 Kentucky and Oregon primaries, Barack Obama plans to declare victory in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Barack Works the House
In the great hunt for superdelegates, there’s no better place to look than the floor of the House, and Senator Barack Obama dove right into a sea of them on Thursday morning, shaking hands, clapping backs, doling out hugs and even doing a little curtsy before Representative John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, the chairman of the Budget Committee.