California papers wade through Prop 8 terminology

Campaign rally stories should be careful describing the supporter ranks

In The American Scholar, Christopher Clausen investigates the phrase that comes ’round and ’round. He starts in July 1864, when Lincoln was running for a second term against Gen. George B. McClellan, three years into the Civil War. A New York Times editorial that year stated: “We have had many important elections, but never one […]

Andrew Sullivan, in the new Atlantic, explains why he blogs: Each week, after a few hundred posts, I also write an actual newspaper column. It invariably turns out to be more considered, balanced, and evenhanded than the blog. But the blog will always inform and enrich the column, and often serve as a kind of […]

NYT opinion columnist pulls the “earnest” card

McCain wins battle for headlines. Will he win the election?

Kristol goes astray on Noonan

Joe Wurzelbacher and the politics of the "middle class"

The race issue is sometimes better served in portraits, not polling theories

McCain’s weak denunciation of woman’s comment didn’t get enough press pushback