Catholic Father Paolo Dall’Oglio of Syria’s Mar Musa monastery stood before Rock Springs Congregational United Church of Christ in Arlington, Virginia, on July 23 and pleaded for U.S. intervention in his homeland’s escalating civil war. Already half of Syria’s two million Christians have fled, he said, comparing the exodus of …
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Political Pictures of the Week, July 21-27
From New Orleans to London, TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Obama, Romney Stop Over in Nevada: Is It Still a True Toss-Up?
President Obama took a day trip to Nevada on Monday, a quick detour from his West Coast swing, to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno. The speech was national fare directed at vets–Iraq, Osama bin Laden, VA …
The Horserace Hasn’t Changed, but Maybe the Game Has
On Twitter, Nate Silver points out the funny fact that when you type “game changer Obama Romney” into Google News, you get 2,860 results just for the last 30 days. This is funny not because we in the news bidness beat cliches …
Romney Feels the Bain, but It’s Still a Close Race
Democrats have thoroughly enjoyed the past few days of the presidential campaign, and with good reason. Mitt Romney’s camp has been on the defensive, responding to President Obama’s attacks with confusing and even goofy …
Political Pictures of the Week, July 7-13
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Q&A: Ralph Nader on The Green Party, Obama and Romney
Ralph Nader returned a phone call today to give TIME a statement on current Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, whom we wrote about yesterday:
“Jill Stein will ably carry forward the green banner of majoritarian
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The Green Team: Jill Stein’s Third-Party Bid to Shake Up 2012
Wednesday morning at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spoke to about a dozen people–and a couple dozen empty chairs. She had gone to the capital, in advance of the Green …
Hobgoblin Alert: Behind Barack Obama’s False Abortion Ad
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” –H.L. Mencken
If you live in a swing state, your nation sends its apologies. Perhaps you can just break your television. No grown man or woman should be subjected …
Romney’s Big Fundraising Month and the Culture of Political Giving
Mitt Romney had a banner month in June. His campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $106 million, marking a large post-primary consolidation of Republican funds, and a full $35 million more than President Obama and …
The Future of the Affordable Care Act: Uncertain, At Best
There are two health care-related sideshows playing out in Washington. One is a semantic argument about whether the fine for not having health insurance under Obamacare is a “penalty,” as the law’s author’s originally …
Political Pictures of the Week, June 30-July 6
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Rupert Murdoch, Mitt Romney and the Aztec Sacrifice Ritual
Call it the Aztec effect. There comes a point in virtually every major presidential campaign when the gods demand a sacrifice. In contemporary terms, the gods are some combination of powerful party activists and donors as well as …
