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Updated 11:07am As this point in the presidential campaign cycle, those of us in the press corps have typed tens of thousands of words about the influential role of evangelicals in selecting the next Republican nominee. Sure, sometimes we use the phrase “social conservatives” to recognize that evangelical Protestants aren’t the only voters who care [...]
Perry still has a decent shot at the nomination. The media loves a good comeback story and his campaign is the most established, well-staffed and well-funded of all of the alternatives to Romney. But in order to fix things, Team Perry needs to figure out what went so wrong so fast. And admitting that there was a problem has not been something that the campaign, or at least those who ran it until this week, have been willing to do.
It seems to be Democratic buyer’s remorse week here at TIME, with a poll on Hillary Clinton’s robust but-never-gunna-happen 2012 presidential prospects and a piece by Chris Matthews lamenting Obama’s first term in this week’s print edition. The Matthews piece, adapted from his forthcoming book on JFK, is one part epitaph for New Frontier liberalism, [...]
Civil disobedience is easy to embrace from a distance. Few Americans condemned the thousands who gathered peacefully in violation of the law across the Arab world this spring. But when it starts happening on your doorstep, clogging up your streets or bringing drum circles to your place of work, it’s another matter altogether. And so [...]
You’ve probably seen the state-by-state numbers from our big poll released Wednesday, and the basic storyline is pretty obvious: Mitt Romney is the clear GOP frontrunner, with Herman Cain close behind him in the key early states. But Romney’s support is tepid, and he benefits from a wildly splintered conservative vote. There’s more to the [...]
If you didn’t recognize Mark Block at the beginning of this week, chances are you do now. He is Herman Cain’s campaign manager, perhaps better known as the guy with the mustache in Cain’s viral campaign video who says, “Herman Cain will put United back in the United States of America,” before taking a drag [...]
European leaders strike a deal to write down a third of Greece’s debt, swell the bailout fund and recapitalize the continent’s banks. The U.S. economy grew at an improved 2.5% annual rate from July to September. (As Jim Pethokoukis points out, at this point in Reagan’s first term, it was humming along at 8.1%) The [...]
Hillary Clinton argues in our cover story this week, now available online to subscribers, that America is not so much in decline as adjusting to a world of increasingly diffuse power, where like-minded networked individuals, non-governmental organizations and other non-traditional global actors may steer events as much as great power capitals. Clinton lays out “smart [...]
TIME Managing Editor Richard Stengel accompanied Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her recent trip to Libya, Oman, Afghanistan and Pakistan. On Oct. 19, in the course of reporting for TIME’s cover story, which is now available online to subscribers, he conducted a wide-ranging interview with her, discussing among other things, the Middle East, China [...]
With less than three months before voting begins for the Republican presidential nomination, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is outpacing the GOP field in the first four primary states, according to a new CNN/TIME/ORC poll. Former pizza magnate Herman Cain is running second in each pivotal early battleground.
