—Pete Rouse will take over for the departing Rahm Emanuel, and according to the New York Times, it’s not an interim appointment. President Obama is expected to make the announcements this afternoon.
–The Atlantic’s Nicole Allan fact-checks an attack ad from West Virginia Republican John Raese, who has gained ground rapidly in a …
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Trailing by double digits in the Louisiana Senate race, Democratic Rep. Charlie Melancon is trying to erase the deficit by reminding voters of his opponent’s history with prostitutes. In a two-minute ad titled “Forgotten Crimes,” Melancon’s camp paints …
I escaped D.C. yesterday to attend the rollout of House Republicans’ “Pledge to America,” a policy document that’s heavy on campaign rhetoric about Democrats’ profligacy but missing a blueprint for balancing the budget.
I also have a piece up about a San Francisco program called Jobs Now, a stimulus-subsidized initiative that has …
House Republicans will unveil their “Pledge to America” at a hardware store in Sterling, Va., tomorrow morning. The GOP frames the document as a series of ideals, programs and policy blueprints it would uphold and pursue if restored to power in November. It’s also an attempt to neutralize Democrats’ charge that the “Party of No” has no …
Our colleague Ishaan Tharoor has a new Time.com Q&A with Markos Moulitsas about the Daily Kos founder’s new book, “American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right.” You can read the whole thing here. The opening excerpt:
You refer to a whole swath of U.S. conservatives as American Taliban. Is that
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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has denied a clemency petition from Teresa Lewis, clearing the way for her execution by lethal injection on Sept. 23. Lewis, who participated in a murder-for-hire plot that claimed the lives of her husband and stepson in 2003, would be the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly 100 years. In recent weeks, …
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Tea Party activists on Tuesday punctuated a primary season with no shortage of surprises by delivering their sharpest blow yet to the Republican establishment. In the race for the party’s Senate nomination in Delaware—one of seven states (plus the nation’s capital) where voters headed to the polls in the last …
Allow me to introduce the newest addition to our ever-growing Swampland team, Massimo Calabresi.
A Washington Correspondent for TIME since 1999, Massimo has done stints covering the State, Treasury and Justice Departments, the CIA, the White House and Congress. Prior to that he served as Central Europe Bureau Chief during the Balkan …
It’s a bit outside the normal Swampland purview, but Katy Steinmetz and I have a story today about Teresa Lewis, who is slated to be executed in Virginia on Sept. 23. Lewis would be the first woman put to death in the commonwealth in nearly a century, and one of only a handful executed since the U.S. reinstated capital punishment in …
I have a Time.com piece up this morning about Net neutrality–a complex and important policy issue that has been re-purposed as a political football. You can read it here.
In a Time.com column published today, our colleague Mark Halperin takes stock of the Democrats’ increasingly bleak midterm prospects. “Republicans are either going to have a fantastic Nov. 2 — or a revolutionary one,” he writes. You can read why here.
TIME’s Elizabeth Dias files this report:
Glenn Beck’s revival may appear to forecast him as less of a leader for America’s evangelical base than one might think. In fact, many evangelical leaders suggest Beck’s success could ultimately fail–if pulpits carefully parse the distinction Beck fails to make between Christianity and
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