Sarah Palin

Game Change: What Sarah Palin Wants Us to Remember About 2008

The mama grizzlies at Sarah Palin’s political-action committee have a well-produced video up today that aims to do some damage control before the release of a not-so-favorable HBO dramatization of her role in the 2008 presidential campaign, based on a book co-written by TIME’s Mark Halperin.

The Once and Future Front Runner: Why Romney Is Winning in Florida and What Comes Next

Charles Dharapak / AP

In a Republican-primary season marked by political chaos, here’s something that finally seems settled: Mitt Romney will win the Tuesday, Jan. 31, Florida primary. So say the latest public polls, several of which suggest Romney has a double-digit lead over Newt Gingrich. So say Romney supporters, who have delighted in discombobulating the former Speaker with [...]

Palin Will Not Seek the GOP Nomination

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will not seek the Republican nomination to challenge Barack Obama for the White House, she said in a statement sent to TIME. “After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States,” Palin wrote in [...]

Keep an Eye on Wasilla: Is Palin Nearing a Decision?

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has always worked according to her own clock and cared little for the timing of others. Through most of the summer, the smart money in Washington has been betting she would not run–and she’s checking in at just 9% in the latest national horse-race poll. But Palin has a way [...]

Palin’s Latest Cover

As Newsweek cover shots of Sarah Palin go, this was by far the best.

Sarah Palin’s E-mail Etiquette

Reuters / Shannon Stapleton

Thus far, the 25,000 pages of Sarah Palin’s e-mails from her first year and a half as governor, released by the state of Alaska on Friday, have yielded no bombshells. By all accounts, they show a pre-vice presidential Palin who is warm, writing a friend’s prospective landlord directly to offer a reference. She’s down to [...]

Sarah Palin the Movie: A Distribution Deal and a Sneak Peek

Mario Tama / Getty Images

Steve Bannon announced Friday morning that his $1 million, two-hour cinematic opus on Sarah Palin’s political career will be distributed by AMC Theaters, the second largest theater chain in the U.S. with 5,325 screens. The Palin film will not be hitting all those screens, though, just those in 10 U.S. locales: Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, [...]

Palin’s WTF Moment

Sarah Palin this morning posted a facebook note entitled, “Another ‘WTF’ Obama Foreign Policy Moment*” In it she talks about an op-ed by former CIA director James Woolsey in Foreign Policy Magazine that accuses the Obama Administration of freely giving away missile defense technology to the Russians. “President Obama wants to give Russia our missile [...]

Palin’s Set of Improbable Coincidences

Dima Gavrysh for TIME

Sarah Palin says she’s not (yet) running for President. But her week long “learning” bus tour of historical sites just happens to end in the politically important first primary state of New Hampshire where she just happens to be holding her only “event” of the trip – a clambake. And, by the way, she has [...]

She’s Back: Sarah Palin Returns to the Spotlight

JIM LO SCALZO / EPA

With the media chasing Sarah Palin’s tour bus up the East Coast and buzz about her presidential prospects renewed, TIME’s Feifei Sun looks at the former Alaska governor’s exploits on the trail in 2011