We knew Barack Obama smoked weed in high school because he wrote about it in his books. What we didn’t know, until Buzzfeed posted these choice nuggets (I’m so sorry) from David Maraniss’s new book on the President’s younger years, were the giggle-worthy details of his “Choom Gang” lifestyle, which are right out of a [...]
Romney feels haunted by gaffes. Ground zero, Wisconsin. The Senate race is a better bellwether than the recall.
When President Obama endorsed gay marriage earlier this month, the media grappled with two basic political questions: Was his personal “evolution” a case of a politician transparently following a national trend toward accepting same-sex unions (accelerated, perhaps, by his chatty No. 2), and would it hurt his re-election chances by alienating socially conservative voters like [...]
Why the Massachusetts Senate race is close: the fundamentals favor Warren, Brown is more popular. George Will chalks it up to off-putting identity politics of l’affaire de Cherokee, though the polling suggests it’s not having a huge effect. Fewer Americans are identifying as “pro-choice” even though their views on abortion haven’t changed.
Mitt Romney lashed President Obama’s economic stewardship in an interview with TIME’s Mark Halperin on Wednesday, deflecting attacks on his years as a private equity executive and laying out how he hopes to take control of the economy as soon as he’s sworn in, should he defeat Obama in November.
”Uncommitted” and a perennial candidate gave Obama a run for his money last night in Arkansas and Kentucky primaries. It’s almost as if he might lose those states, which McCain won by about 20 points in 2008, this fall. A WSJ/NBC poll finds that very few people are familiar with or have an opinion about [...]
Breaking up partisan budgetary knife-fights can be perilous business, so in its new report on a cluster of expiring tax breaks and scheduled spending cuts, the Congressional Budget Office, home to Capitol Hill’s weary fiscal referees, exercises restraint. While most Washingtonians call it “Taxmageddon,” the CBO bean-counters refer to the event, set to take place January 1 if [...]
Obama and Romney run dead even on the economy, which 80% say is still bad though a slim majority now feel hopeful about its direction. The way for conservatives to embrace Romney is to pressure him. Unable to further avail the White House, Catholic institutions sue the Obama Administration over contraception coverage requirement. HHS awards [...]
How Mormonism shaped Romney. How 1968 shaped Romney. How Obama narrowed the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.
