Abraham Lincoln

How would Lincoln vote today? How would Lincoln vote today?

Everyone, from President Obama to the GOP, wants a piece of Honest Abe on his bicentennial. Here's where Abraham Lincoln really stood on the issues.
By Michael Lind Feb 12, 2009

  • No more "wars of choice"

    If the Democrats will stop trying to out-hawk the Republicans, the Obama administration can begin rebuilding America's economy and military -- and international image.
    By Michael Lind January 22, 2009

  • The Next American System

    We need a New Contract with the American people, starting with a sweeping program of modernization that echoes Lincoln and FDR.
    By Michael Lind January 20, 2009

  • John F. Kennedy, plagiarist?

    If Barack Obama borrowed from Deval Patrick, so what? Creative "borrowing" is part of speechwriting, as Kennedy knew, and as I learned while working for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale.
    By Jerome Doolittle February 20, 2008

  • Chicago is Barack Obama's kind of town

    The city has a unique history of launching the careers of powerful black politicians -- which is part of the reason Obama moved there.
    By Edward McClelland January 14, 2008

  • Imperial presidency declared null and void

    Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit's stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality.
    By Sidney Blumenthal June 21, 2007

  • You, sir, are no Abe Lincoln

    Bush may wish he measured up to the Great Emancipator. But he does stack up quite nicely against Andrew Johnson.
    By Garrett Epps August 23, 2006

  • A deluded king and his court lickspittles

    Cut off from reality and surrounded by flatterers like Rice and Cheney, Bush clings to grandiose illusions of heroism.
    By Sidney Blumenthal March 2, 2006

  • "Greedy weirdos and good-hearted men"

    Writer and radio personality Sarah Vowell tells Death Cab for Cutie's Christopher Walla about the ghosts haunting her new book, "Assassination Vacation," and why life is brighter since her turn in "The Incredibles"
    By Christopher Walla April 26, 2005

  • Tell it to the slaves

    A Republican senator says his home state hasn't quite gotten "over" Abraham Lincoln yet.
    By Tim Grieve March 8, 2005

  • The sexual life of Abraham Lincoln

    After reading C.A. Tripp's highly anticipated study of Abe's alleged homosexuality, we still don't know if he was gay. Does it matter?
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 12, 2005

  • Old times there are not forgotten

    John Wilkes Booth, the South's romantic villain, refused to accept the triumph of Northern values. Some things never change.
    By David Talbot November 19, 2004

  • A night to remember

    On Day 2, Democratic convention speakers celebrate America as a nation of immigrants, emphasizing inclusion and legacy.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 28, 2004

  • What would Abe say?

    Former Gov. Mario Cuomo, author of a book on the "wisest" president, speculates about what Lincoln's position would have been on preemptive war, stem cell research, restriction of civil liberties.
    By Mary Jacoby July 3, 2004

  • Judging Bush

    The president's determination in the face of opposition proves his courage. But our greatest leaders also had wisdom.
    By Alan Wolfe May 2, 2003

  • Yes, I bid on Abe Lincoln's hair

    When I collected baseball cards, you had to buy them from other humans. Now you can get almost anything you want, anonymously, on the Internet -- and people want ever-stranger things.
    By Keith Olbermann December 5, 2002

  • Better than a saint

    A new biography removes Abraham Lincoln's halo, revealing a man whose sheer human goodness remains mysterious.
    By Laura Miller February 12, 2002

  • Honest Abe and Earnest Al

    Reciting Lincoln's words, Gore -- the geek candidate who cares about climate change in 10th century Mexico -- confronts America's most famous presidential ghost.
    By Sarah Vowell February 16, 2000

  • "Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln" by Richard Slotkin

    A splendid piece of mythmaking views the young hero's coming of age through the lens of Huckleberry Finn.
    By Laura Miller February 11, 2000

  • The 7 vices of highly creative people

    If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it.
    By D.A. Blyler February 9, 2000

  • Goodnight, Irene

    Blacks have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for years, but now they seem to be rethinking their political allegiances.
    By Debra Dickerson October 23, 1999

  • Mr. Smith flips off Washington

    Sen. Bob Smith deserts the GOP in the middle of his long-shot bid for the presidency.
    By Jake Tapper July 14, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    If Lincoln was gay, prove it; Croatia and Serbia need democratic opposition.
    Letters to the Editor May 10, 1999

  • Real America?

    Alan Dershowitz blasts Clinton critic Rep. Bob Barr for a speech to white supremacists.
    By Joan Walsh December 11, 1998

  • Mr. Lincoln's neighborhood

    Jan Morris discovers that the inspiring spirit of Abe Lincoln lives still in the streets of Springfield, Ill.
    By Jan Morris March 18, 1998
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