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Presidential campaigns have grown over-saturated with debates — there will be five more before Halloween — but some are more important than others. Thursday night’s Republican forum in Iowa feels like a big one. Several candidates have something to prove, and at least one has a lot to lose–even if the most interesting figure of [...]
Now that House minority leader Nancy Pelosi has named Reps. Chris Van Hollen, Jim Clyburn and Xavier Becerra last three members of the “super-committee” tasked under the debt limit deal with producing $1.5 trillion in deficit reductions by Thanksgiving, we can prepare for an avalanche of predictions about how deadlock is inevitable and punting of [...]
If you want to see why Mitt Romney is on track to become the next Republican nominee for President, you should watch the stump speech he just delivered at the Iowa State Fair. He was electric, passionate, focused and having fun, all words that few would have used to describe Romney the last time he [...]
When David Petraeus retires from the Army at the end of this month to take the helm at the CIA, he’ll leave behind a radically different fighting force from what existed even a decade ago. As Joe writes in this week’s issue of TIME, Petraeus, the intellectual force behind the counter-insurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaves [...]
I know President Obama is supposed to be an awful disappointment to environmentalists because he doesn’t talk enough about climate change, just like he’s an awful disappointment to progressives because he doesn’t say enough nasty things about bankers. But people who actually care about what Presidents do, as opposed to how they talk, might be interested in [...]
If Rick Perry runs, he’ll enter the race near the front of the pack. But he appears to siphoning more support from Bachmann than from Romney. As Massachusetts Governor, Romney plied S&P for an upgrade with talk of taxes. There’s debate tonight in Iowa.
Rick Perry is primed to announce his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Saturday in South Carolina. TIME’s Mark Halperin caught up with the Texas governor in Austin and asked him about his feelings on a White House run, his conservative credentials and his rumored rocky relationship with the Bushes. Lightly edited highlights from [...]
As the Ames straw poll approaches, the chattering class is chattering about whether Tim Pawlenty can carry on after anything but a first-place finish on Saturday. I generally think the straw poll is a silly exercise, but in Pawlenty’s case I can see the grounds for this argument. In recent weeks Pawlenty’s campaign has been [...]
Tax reform, you will soon hear, can be good for everybody. But few will benefit more than those who write the legislation. On the same day that House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., got picked to join the 12-member Congressional super-committee that is charged with deciding the country’s spending and taxation fate, his [...]
