A Washington State Senator Is Looking to Unseat One of the Quirkiest, Most Vulnerable House Dems in ’26 How the Internet Broke Assimilation The Terrorism Confusion in the Caribbean A West Coast ...

A procedural on the political manipulation of medium and message, George Clooney’s fourth directorial effort is bookended with scenes of media-op prepping. In the first, Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling), ...

Since Slate first launched its Encyclopedia Baracktannica in February, more than 800 readers have written in with their own Obamaisms, from "Barack Ness Monster" to "Post-Baracalyptic." The best of ...

Via Ben Smith in Politico, I see that a new poll from the Telegraph in London shows Barack Obama trouncing John McCain among voters in five European countries. But lest TNR readers doubt the poll's ...

"If the economy's good for people from the bottom up, it's going to be good for everybody." Barack Obama's now famous conversation with "Joe the Plumber" made the Ohio-based small business owner ...

I take David Greenberg's point that Obama's election wouldn't in itself do much to solve a number of the problems facing African Americans. I also concede that some white liberals are positively ...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's upset victory in the New Hampshire primary last week was every bit as impressive as Sen. Barack Obama's Iowa caucus breakout five days before -- if anything, more ...

The use of technology like blogs, mass texting and online phone banks has been key to Sen. Barack Obama's surprise sweep of recent primaries. The Illinois senator's campaign has been making use of a ...

Germans turned out en masse to hear Barack Obama speak when he visited Berlin as a presidential candidate; the Nobel committee thinks President Obama is re-starting international diplomacy; Nicolas ...

For the first time in years, stories about suicide bombings, Taliban raids, and the prospects of a long, cold winter in which many Afghans may face starvation are not dominating the headlines in the ...

JAKARTA (Reuters Life!) - At a thumb-numbing 5,472 pages, a book devoted to the life of Barack Obama is probably not going to be on the President's list of beach reads, but its Indonesian author is ...

Aleksandr Zarayev says Barack Obama's victory was in the stars. Speaking on the eve of the U.S. presidential election, the president of Russia's Astrological School predicted -- as did most public ...