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 …

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Almost as unfair and funny as the Onion’s spoof on TIME.

I have a Time.com piece up this morning about Net neutrality–a complex and important policy issue that has been re-purposed as a political football. You can read it here.

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 …

If any still doubted that major shakeups were coming to the White House after the midterm elections, they can look to Chicago today, where news just broke that the job Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has coveted for so long is now open. Here is the scoop:

Mayor Richard Daley says he will not run for re-election in 2011, saying it’s “time

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Adam posted below this cute ad, neatly demonstrating Charlie Crist’s claim that a mixture of Democratic and Republican ideas is better for Americans than either party’s solutions alone. But something fishy is going on, the sort of thing that would get a set designer fired from Sesame …