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Katia Bachko is on staff at The New Yorker.

Everyone Starts Somewhere

This just in: Jill Burke at KTUU, the NBC affiliate in Anchorage, confirmed that GOP VP Sarah Palin was a sports intern with the station. A background in journalism bodes well for vice presidential candidates: Al Gore was, among other things, an investigative reporter for The Tennessean.

The New McCain

For confirmation of the rumors of the new, more tightly controlled McCain, look no further than this interview by Time magazine’s James Carney and Michael Scherer. The cringingly awkward transcript contains interactions as tense and uncomfortable as this: There’s a theme that recurs in your books and your speeches, both about putting country first but […]