Nigeria Loves Us!

In the new (and newly redesigned) issue of TIME, we run a poll graphic that hasn’t been posted on the site yet that caught my eye. It’s drawn from a BBC World Service poll in which people around the globe were asked to rate the influence of other nations. No surprise — as the item [...]

Get Ready for Mega-Tuesday

It’s official. California has moved its primary up to Feb. 5. Ah-nold’s take: “Now California is important again in presidential nominating politics … and we will get the respect that California deserves,” Schwarzenegger said during a bill-signing ceremony outside the historic Leland Stanford Mansion, a former governor’s residence and orphanage. But as I noted here [...]

Some of My Best Friends Are Immoral

Sorry I didn’t get to this yesterday, because it certainly caught my eye. Jake Tapper cornered Hillary about Pace’s “homosexuality-is-immoral” comments and this is the best she could do: “General Pace has clarified his remarks, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is not working,” she said. “We are [...]

A New Look for Dead Trees

When you are in the grocery line this weekend, take a look at the newly redesigned TIME magazine, which is making its debut at the newsstands on Friday. In the cover story, “How the Right Went Wrong,” I look at how well today’s Republicans stack up against Ronald Reagan’s legacy.