Wow. So, last month, you’ll remember, Samantha Power resigned from her perch as an Obama foreign policy adviser shortly after telling a Scottish newspaper that she felt Hillary Clinton was “a monster—and that’s off the record.” The reporter thought otherwise, and published the remark. So, with all her new free time, Power has been continuing […]

Wondering what Mitt Romney is up to today? Oh, don’t lie. Sure you are! Paul Harvey, the 89-year-old radio host who just oozes heartland in his folksy, twice daily news and comment broadcasts, is taking a couple of weeks off for medical reasons. And Romney, the one-time actual presidential candidate, and sometimes mentioned potential vice-presidential […]

When the Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, there was a curious gap: No award was given for editorials. There were, of course, plenty of entrants. And there were three finalists. But in the end, the prize board didn’t name a winner. Portfolio’s Jeff Bercovici had the clever idea to call up the three finalists […]

A headline like that would seem to be very good news for The Associated Press, which has been working to free Bilal Hussein, the wire’s Pulitzer prize-winning Iraqi photographer, from U.S. custody for over two years. The Army has variously alleged that Hussein was in possession of weapons and bomb parts, only to walk back […]

Haven’t heard of the ‘add-on delegates’? They hurt Clinton

Recently, I’ve found chatty “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough to be just as serviceable as any other MSNBCer. But it’s easy to forget that the man was once the very definition of a partisan gunslinger. So this Village Voice piece—by Wayne Barrett, an old professor of mine—is a worthy reminder of how far he’s (sorta) […]

The Times’s slowpoke superdelegate survey

National Journal series was largely ignored by rest of the press

There’s much chatter today that Chelsea Clinton, while headlining a North Carolina State campaign event for her mother, was once again asked about l’affaire Lewinsky and how it affects her mother’s candidacy. And once again, she briskly dismissed the questioner. But (sorry Chelsea!) the door’s been opened. So whichever lucky interviewer (Matt Lauer? Barbara Walters?) […]