Romney’s tour of a cancer research facility shows us something about the man’s social DNA. When I talked to the lab tech Romney conversed with, I asked him if the lab worked with stem cells. “No,” he said, “But I wish I could.”

The Senate Judiciary Committee version of the revised Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act was defeated by a 60-34 vote this afternoon. The key difference between that bill and the Intelligence Committee version, which is likely to pass, comes on the question of granting legal immunity to those telecoms that cooperated with U.S. government requests to participate [...]

As grumbling about Bill Clinton grows among Democratic leaders (and particularly among Hillary Clinton’s fellow Senators), the word I’m hearing is her operation is growing quite worried that the former President’s comments are becoming too big a story this week. They are looking for some graceful way to tamp it down. Not so easy, where [...]

Christian right leaders are abuzz today because a new online candidate guide that has been posted by Focus on the Family Action, the political arm of Jim Dobson’s conservative Christian empire. The webpage offers edited excerpts of recent webcasts with the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, explaining where the candidates stand on “pro-family issues.” The [...]

One real benefit of the Clintons’ double-team strategy here in South Carolina is the way in which it allows them to play good-cop, bad-cop. In what was billed as a major economic address at Furman University in Greenville this morning, Hillary Clinton did not make a single reference to any of her Democratic opponents, instead [...]

Jay has this week’s cover story on John McCain’s emergence from the political tomb. Where do you go when you’ve already come back from the dead? Florida, of course. In a dead heat with Mitt Romney in the polls here in the Sunshine state, McCain faces the first state which can’t be won with town [...]

Let me get this straight: Obama wins Iowa. In a desperate move–unprecedented for an ex-President in American politics–Bill Clinton decides to impede Obama’s momentum by inserting himself into the campaign. He attacks Obama on an almost daily basis, sometimes falsely. He makes a spectacle of himself. And then he blames the press for not covering [...]