Obama Must Give Another Race Speech

Posted: 08 Apr 2008 01:40 AM CDT

Back in 1988, I promulgated what I now call Cohen's Law of Racial Politics. It goes like this: In states where there are few African-Americans, the liberal candidate can win the white vote. In states...

The Errors Haunting Clinton

Posted: 08 Apr 2008 01:40 AM CDT

WASHINGTON -- The most striking critiques of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign have come not from her opponents or her enemies, but from her most loyal friends. Since December, I have...

Dangerous Dozen Open House Seats

Posted: 08 Apr 2008 01:35 AM CDT

A significant number of retirements since my last Dangerous Dozen (Oct. 25, 2007) has shuffled the list and shows why the fight for the House is a one-sided battle, with Democrats having most of the...

Onward the Revolution!

Posted: 08 Apr 2008 01:30 AM CDT

Having cheerfully confessed he knows little about economics, John McCain is advancing himself as a foreign-policy president, a "realistic idealist," he told the World Affairs Council of Los Angeles....

Mark Penn's Transgression

Posted: 08 Apr 2008 01:30 AM CDT

WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton's campaign, which is a guttering candle, has suffered a perhaps extinguishing gust of ill wind. Her principal strategist has been forced to resign from that role. ...

Beyond 'Benchmarks'

Posted: 08 Apr 2008 01:25 AM CDT

Even in the age of instant communication, it takes three months or more for developments in Iraq to have any impact on the U.S. political debate. The war is like a distant star whose light we only...

Run, Condi, Run!

Posted: 08 Apr 2008 01:25 AM CDT

Oh please oh please oh please. I know it's undignified to beg, but (BEG ITAL)please(END ITAL) let John McCain pick Condoleezza Rice as his running mate. I know that this campaign has already...

How Green Was NAFTA?

Posted: 08 Apr 2008 01:20 AM CDT

About 17 years ago, a New England business reporter answered the phone and found a friendly Texan on the other end. She had recently written about how local manufacturers were coping with...

Allies Benefit from Our Heavylifting in Iraq

Posted: 08 Apr 2008 01:20 AM CDT

Recently, at the request of Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the Iraqi government ordered its armed forces to deploy in Basra, the country's major oil port and take the city back from the...

It's a Bad World

Posted: 08 Apr 2008 01:10 AM CDT

Here are some news items from just this past week: In Tibet, according to an Associated Press report, "police opened fire on hundreds of Buddhist monks and lay people who had marched on...