Campaign 2008: Second-quarter fundraising tipsheet.

WARNING LABEL FOR CRANKY SWAMPLAND COMMENTERS (You know who you are): This is an inside-the-beltway, horserace post. Move along, folks. Nothing to see here. UPDATE ALREADY: Obama is well past 250,000 donors. I can’t keep up.

Today’s Supreme Court Decision on School Diversity

Elsewhere on TIME.com, Reynolds Holding takes a look at today’s decision. He does not agree with those who see it as the end of Brown v. Board of Education, but says it complicates the picture for school districts across the country: Justice Stephen Breyer led Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg [...]

In the Arena

This Week in Iraq

From the print magazine.

Obama by the Numbers

The first big news from the second quarter fundraising race is in. Barack Obama has built a fundraising base that is approaching 250,000 donors–a stunning total. (By comparison, Howard Dean’s campaign, which had set a new standard for grassroots fundraising, claimed about 70,000 for the first two quarters of 2003.) Political watchers–at least, the ones [...]

Schrodinger’s Cheney

According to this extremely confusing NYT article, the White House has backed away from the assertion that he can deny cooperation to the National Archives because of the “Liger Principle” — the OVP is both executive branch and legislative branch — but seem to be asserting that he can deny cooperation to the National Archives [...]