Michael Crowley

Michael Crowley is a senior correspondent for TIME. He previously covered domestic politics and foreign policy for The New Republic, and was also a reporter at the Boston Globe. He has also written for such publications as New York magazine, GQ, Slate, and the New York Times magazine.

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What’s the Democratic Agenda?

If you’re a Democratic candidate this fall, unemployment and the stalled economy are already making your life miserable. But you’ve also got another big campaign challenge: What’s your agenda? For many Democrats this year, it’s simply not clear. Let’s take a tour: The party has already used up one of its most reliable issues over …

“Scandalous” News from the CIA

Rarely discussed nowadays is the fact that America’s political leadership–under the direction of president Obama–decided to, in effect, let bygones be bygones and not pursue investigations into allegations of Bush-era torture. (Eric Holder’s Justice Department is investigating some of the most egregious cases, but those seem to be acts …

The Reverend Beck

Two slightly belated thoughts about Glenn Beck’s egopalooza on the Mall Saturday. One, it didn’t seem very interesting! I watched the opening of Beck’s show last night, and it seemed to me that he was straining to describe what actually happened. Beck spent about five minutes talking about how Sarah Palin prayed for 10 minutes …

Could Palin Be President?

A new poll suggests not. Only one in four Americans consider her qualified to be commander in chief, with 60 percent sure that she is not qualified. Those are awful numbers and I’m one who thinks the prospects of a Palin presidency are, for the moment, quite unlikely.

But perception of Palin could still change. Consider some pre-’08 …

McCain’s Swan Song

David Broder dedicates his column today to John McCain, whom he urges to restore “adult leadership” to a fracturing Republican party. Broder would like to see McCain resurrect the “reputation he established for independence — for being his own man, no matter what the pressures” and find key points of bipartisan compromise with Barack …

Will McCain Have a Real Race?

So, John McCain has survived his primary brush with political termination. But he still has another challenger standing between himself and re-election in November: former Tucson City councilman Mark Rodney Glassman. At first blush, it might seem that McCain will roll to easy victory this fall. A recent Rasmussen poll shows him 19 points …

Speaker Boehner?

John Boehner isn’t known for commanding national headlines, but a combination of a verrry slow news moment and a catchy gimmick–calling on Obama to fire his economic team–is producing some decent headlines for the Republican House leader, who hopes to replace Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker next year. Jay already did an excellent job of …

Obama’s Brave Stand

One good way to measure Obama’s performance as president, I think, is by the degree to which he meets this famous pledge:

The easiest thing in the world for a politician to do is to tell you exactly what you want to hear. But if we want to finally solve the challenges we’re facing right now, we need to tell the American people what

Bombing Iran

On the one hand, it’s pretty hard to envision Barack Obama–whose candidacy was partly premised on reconciling America with the Muslim world–launching a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. On the other hand you have data points like Jeffrey Goldberg’s latest Atlantic opus, in which White House officials insist that “President …

Should Democrats Bash Bush–or Wall Street?

Karl Rove has a Wall Street Journal op-ed today worth the attention even of Democrats who can’t stand him. You won’t be surprised to hear that Rove expects Democrats to get clobbered this fall. But he does highlight a point that Democrats should consider as they plot their midterm campaign message.

Right now the Democrats’ national …

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