Talk to just about any Democratic strategist these days, and the first or third thing mentioned is the wonderfulness of having an opponent again. Back in 2010, of course, Democrats tried for months to pretend they were running …
This week’s magazine features my story from inside President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, including plans to train more than 1,500 full-time volunteers early next month for a summer of on-the-ground organizing. The plan is big: to call or meet with hundreds of thousands of former volunteers for an open-ended conversation about the …
For the better part of half a century, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has fought for a singular goal: To rally United States government support for the policy goals of the Israeli government. On Sunday, President Obama appeared before AIPAC’s annual conference to argue that the interests of Israel and its government, led by …
Finally, Republicans and Democrats have something they can agree on: The GOP presidential nomination race is a mess. “It’s the most unfathomable Republican race of our lifetime,” a senior aide to Barack Obama’s reelection effort …
You know it’s a Friday afternoon if the White House sends out the latest list of presidential pardons. Here are today’s lucky winners, all of whom were convicted of non-violent crimes. Some swing states represented, but no campaign contributors.
In the more-fun-to-read, newsstand magazine this week, I have a piece about White House efforts to be more online, including a scene from last week (pictured above, courtesy of the White House) when message man David Plouffe (pointing) watched Twitter, while President Obama spoke in Texas about immigration. Here are some more …
The naysayers said Donald Trump was just pulling a con. They said he was doing it for the ratings and to help his renegotiation for a big Celebrity Apprentice payday next year. They said he just wanted folks to pay attention to …
Hispanics are not a typical target demographic for Republicans seeking a presidential nomination. Rather, since at least 2007, GOP candidates tend to jump all over each other to prove that they will take a tougher, no-amnesty line on immigration. But Newt Gingrich is breaking from the pack.
A spokeswoman for the cable giant Comcast says the company only approached Federal Communications Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, who’s just announced she’ll join the company as senior vice president of government affairs for NBC-Universal, about a potential job as a lobbyist in mid-April. Baker then alerted FCC General Counsel …
The 2012 Republican presidential nomination will not be won or lost on newspaper op-ed pages, or in the wood-paneled confines of a university classroom, where Mitt Romney spoke Thursday about health care. But that is where the …
Walt Whitman, the great bard of the American experiment and Levi’s jeans, never performed at the White House. (He was fired, instead, from his job at the Department of the Interior after his boss objected to the moral content of his writings.) But that didn’t keep him from admiring from afar what he called “the White House of future …
The last time Newt Gingrich attended the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, he brought with him his traveling side show of policy lecturers. With workshops titled “Green Conservatism & Biodiversity,” “Finding a Cure for Alzheimer’s” and “A …
The fact that Donald Trump’s name sells stuff is no surprise. (Trump Steaks, anyone?) But who would have guessed that Trump reentry into politics could have been so immediately commodified by the online press? In fact, coverage of Trump’s political ambitions has quite literally become a money-making opportunity for the right’s online news hubs.
