Signs coming out of the White House suggest that it may be announced within hours. The NYT’s Peter Baker reports that White House officials are saying the list is now down to four women. The paper has done profiles of all of these candidates recently, giving us a sense of what direction each might take [...]

E.J. Dionne, writing for the New Republic, gives us a fascinating inside look at how the Obama White House manages the punditocracy: Last Thursday afternoon, for example, the White House invited in journalists, mostly opinion writers, to sell them on the substance of the president’s big speech on Guantanamo and the treatment of detainees. Unbeknownst [...]

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is playing with fire on two fronts–its ridiculous anti-Iran rhetoric (which isn’t as ridiculous as Iran’s anti-Israel rhetoric, but still…) and its continuing effort to build and increase the illegal settlements on the West Bank. When the Netanyahu government took down an illegal settler outpost a few days after Bibi’s meeting with [...]

So Barack Obama could help us sell more magazines. You can see the whole C-SPAN interview here.

Just a reminder of those who serve, and all those who ever have. (By Brooks Kraft, via our White House Photo Blog)

1. John McCain (IV) gets a hug from Barack Obama, finally. 2. Ben Smith uncovers the best headline of the day, week: “Mayor quits job for gay illegal immigrant he loves“ 3. Jon Martin explains the role treadmills, tae kwon do, and sweat plays in the White House legislative strategy. 4. Don’t miss Jack Goldsmith’s [...]

The old joke in Washington is that people here don’t read books, they just read indexes — to see if they can find their own names. As we head into the long holiday weekend that kicks off the summer, Paul Slansky takes that same approach to give us a hilarious summary of what has been, [...]

The news that Liberty University shut down the school’s College Democrats club probably isn’t as surprising as the news that Liberty University had a College Democrats club in the first place. After all, the Lynchburg, VA-based school was founded by the late Jerry Falwell and isn’t exactly known for its political diversity. Still, Liberty College [...]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a surprise for the several dozen reporters gathered in her ceremonial office this Friday morning for her weekly press conference: some guests. Pelosi brought with her her top leadership team, Steny Hoyer, Xavier Becerra and Chris Van Hollen minus whip Jim Clyburn. “Good morning,” Hoyer blustered with an impish grin. The [...]