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Polls in the race for the Democratic nomination to replace retiring Governor Tim Kaine opened at 6am this morning and somewhere in northern Virginia Terry McAuliffe was looking at the sky in lament. At exactly 6am in DC — about three miles away from Virginia’s blue-leaning northern suburbs — a violent thunderstorm rattled through. …

With minutes to go before a 4 p.m. deadline today, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put a hold on the takeover by Fiat that Chryler needs to save it from collapse. The general expectation seems to be that the delay will be brief. Why does the Supreme Court need more time to consider it? At SCOTUS blog, veteran reporter Lyle Denniston …

The only thing that Swampland commenters like to talk about nearly as much as politics is the state of the news business. So here’s something for you to chew on: Jim Poniewozik’s vision of a post-journalism world.

Empathy was so last week. This week, she’s got sympathy:

WASHINGTON – The White House says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has broken her ankle after an airport stumble in New York City.

Sotomayor fractured her right ankle Monday morning at New York’s LaGuardia Airport before boarding a shuttle to Washington for an

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It’s hard to see how the Republican Party is going to orchestrate a comeback if it’s having this much trouble organizing the seating chart for one dinner. Politico’s Jonathan Martin tells us:

Sarah Palin’s on-again, off-again appearance at Monday night’s gala GOP fundraising dinner is off — again.

After being invited —

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My latest story from Air Force One:

When it comes to humanity’s darkest moments, time is both a blessing and a curse. Firebombed cities get rebuilt. Saplings grow in abandoned death camps. Wounded soldiers heal or pass on. Yet with rebirth comes the danger of forgetting, of repeating old mistakes and of failing to learn history’s

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The National Doughnut Day edition of 1,000 Words comes our way via our White House Photo Blog.

It’s Friday, and we are glad to see that Paul Slansky is at it again. Really, can we ever say enough about Liddy, G. Gordon? And this week, Slansky gives us not one but two Cheneys!

But surely he missed an important development or two. How about it, Swampland commenters? What will you remember this week for? (As always, please phrase …

Barack Obama toured the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday, the same Nazi camp where the author and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel was imprisoned as a 16-year old, a few months before the end of World War II. Wiesel walked the grounds with Obama, saying to the president at one point, “If only these trees could talk.” At the end of the …

Sometimes location is everything. Other times, it’s just a convenient place to spend the night. My story is here.

That is, if you don’t happen to be 732,000 people who lost their jobs in May, or the 5.8 million who have since the recession began. Justin tells us about it.

Every time I write a story about the state of the health reform debate —like this one–commenters here want to know why I don’t include an extensive discussion of a single-payer option, which essentially would be a government-financed program like Medicare for everyone. The reason is that it is not going to pass. The House is not going …

Charles Krauthammer has a misleading and evasive column about the Israeli settlements issue. He does not deal with the legality of these towns–he can’t, of course, because they are illegal under the fourth Geneva Convention, which provides rules for occupying powers. He does not deal with the illegality, and inhumanity, of building …