Barack Obama’s Health Care Plan

Here’s the story I wrote on it for TIME.com. Since I filed that story, I’ve heard from rival campaigns attacking it, mostly on the grounds that it does not guarantee universal coverage. To their credit, the Edwards campaign is willing to go on the record. This from Edwards spokesman Mark Kornblau: John Edwards has a [...]

In the Arena

Today in Iraq

This is how diplomacy works. Not much happens. Not much happens. Not much happens. Then something does…so it’s a good thing that the US and Iran are talking in Baghdad, even though not much happened yesterday. But do I detect a buried lede here? Underscoring the crux of the security problem here, a suicide bomber [...]

One Veteran’s Story

I’m in Davenport, Iowa, where Barack Obama gave a Memorial Day speech last night to a group of local veterans. The candidate and the speech were fairly flat, due at least in part to the fact that he had just flown in from a full day of campaigning before big crowds in New Hampshire, including [...]