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In his first weekly address, as noted in the post below , Obama framed the financial crisis as an "opportunity" to pass his propos...

In the third Obama-McCain debate, Bob Schieffer posed what came to be regarded as a baseline "responsible journalist" response to...

Today, a second Wolf-Munch-Rock Award goes to the Financial Times's Phillip Stephens for a superb specimen of the kind of fact-based,...

I was going to let it go when I heard Obama say it, but now Donna Brazile is citing what some might consider the President-elect's first...

Republican Senator Mel Martinez of Florida, former RNC co-chair, warns the party: The fact of the matter is that Hispanics are going to be ...

This observation by Nicholas Kristoff made me wonder whether two potential electoral negatives for Obama may have cancelled each other out ...

Arab reaction to Obama's victory is a complex stew. Here's one response worth contemplating: “It would be no exaggeration to say tha...

Newly released accounts by the independent observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OCSE) of this summer'...

Obama's speeches are often called"poetic." In what sense is this so? He doesn't often wax metaphorical. He does employ a ...

Jabberwocky captures the mood of millions: "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Ca...

In imagining Obama's acceptance speech, I thought vaguely that he might quote Thomas Jefferson, speaking in his first inaugural address ...

On August 29, 2004, British-born historian Niall Ferguson, drawing an analogy between a possible Bush victory in '04 and John Major'...

Vaclav Havel, addressing the newly self-liberated Czechoslovaks at his inaugural on Jan. 1, 1990, was speaking to a nation in circumstance...

Fallows thinks that McCain threw in the towel on Saturday Night Live last night: For a candidate who thinks he's ahead, and might actua...

This perfectly innocent memory correction by James Fallows inevitably recalls a more famous lapse: I mentioned that the only time I missed v...

After a bout of fussing and fret, this post by Ta-Nehisi Coates broke something loose in me: OK, I'm tired of this. Someone--who shall ...

Crashing the HuffPost's OffTheBus , xpostfactoid channels a local hero: retired social worker Roz Blau, who's turning out Union Coun...

James Fallows, cataloging Obama's communication skills , puts foremost his ability to be "serious in trying to present a main idea....

I've read of strange cognitive dissonance in some undecideds and ambivalent Obama supporters (and encountered it, canvassing and phoning...

In this corner we have Nate Silver , data-crunching young technocrat with a dizzying array of charts and an astounding track record, coolly ...