TIME’s Sophia Yan was there in the Senate Chamber today for the swearing in of Democrat #60. She reports: Former-comedian-turned-Senator Al Franken was officially sworn into office this afternoon to a packed Senate gallery, 246 days after Election Day. “It was Al who told me that the third year of his campaign would be best,” [...]
You’d think they would be returning my calls a little faster up there at the Energy and Commerce Committee. I discovered this reading Ezra Klein’s interview with the Chairman: Let’s start with the book. I’ve always wondered why legislators write these books. You win reelection with large numbers. You’re busy. You don’t seem interested in [...]
Over and over again, President Obama has expressed his commitment to the establishment of a government-run “public plan” as part of health reform, saying it is needed to keep the pressure on private insurance companies. Just as often, we have pointed out here that this kind of general statement can mean a lot of different [...]
Barack Obama was introduced Tuesday to the graduating class of Moscow’s New Economic School as someone who had met his wife in a university setting. As a factual slip, the introduction by his Russian host was not that big of a deal. It was, after all, almost true. Obama met his wife, Michelle, at a [...]
The National Security Council may want to start hiring meteorologists, for the future of U.S. foreign policy is apparently written in the skies. First came the greeting between Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday, which I summarize in the lead of my Time.com story on the day’s events. Barack Obama and Dmitri Medvedev, Presidents of the [...]
The former Defense Secretary, who died in his sleep this morning at the age of 93, will always be remembered as the architect of a failed strategy. Here, in a 1995 interview with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb, Robert McNamara discusses the great mistake that was the Vietnam War: You can read the transcript here.
All this talk about Sarah Palin’s constituency being “real Americans” raises the question, yet again, of who the unreal Americans are. Last September, when the Governor burst upon the scene like a head-on collision, I wrote that Palin’s America–white folks, small towns, traditional values–was a Republican fantasy, a vestige of Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” [...]
My Friday story was about why Alaska Governor Sarah Palin quit. Since coming up to Alaska on the weekend the reasons have grown five-fold. A web story out today. Let’s hope the reasons don’t proliferate as I’m running out of headlines.
It’s not because of those scurrilous sports complex rumors, she twitters. It’s about country; something, she says, we in the MSM will never understand.
