Victor Bout, one of the world’s most famous and wanted arms traffickers, was arrested Thursday in Thailand. The guy has been tied to efforts to fuel blood-soaked wars in Angola and Liberia, Afghanistan and Columbia, and many others. He has long been blacklisted by the United States Treasury Department and signaled out by the United [...]

Somehow I didn’t get on this one, so no preview, but here it is.

So much ink is spilled interpreting the race and sex dynamics of the Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton often wins women, Barack Obama inevitably wins blacks. Identity politics lives on. But my former boss, Salon.com’s Walter Shapiro, points to another demographic trend that came into striking relief in the Ohio exit polls: The age gap. The [...]

This development is going to come as big news on the Hillary Clinton campaign plane, where staff and reporters have been popping this stuff like Necco wafers.

“NAFTAgate” started out as a slightly surreal meta-story, one in which one campaign (Clinton) attempted to tar another campaign (Obama) for operating as campaigns often do:* demagoguing an issue while tacitly admitting that they’re, well, demagoguing it. Now the Clinton campaign will have to explain why they demagogued Obama on NAFTAgate while also telling the [...]

I assume most readers here are interested enough in politics to realize that Time’s coverage of it doesn’t stop at Swampland’s edge. Our colleague James Poniewozik often delves into matters political over at his blog about television, Tuned In; I’m going to make more of an effort to alert you all to his wonkier side [...]

Ana, if there’s any paper in the country that has an eager audience for political process stories, it’s the Washington Post. As a former newspaper reporter myself (and, yes, still one at heart), I think this was a good call on the part of the editors. I also would bet, given the amount of reporting [...]

In the issue of dead-tree TIME that comes out tomorrow, David Von Drehle and I look at the rough weeks ahead and the possible consequences for the Democrats.