John F. Kennedy

News Ted Kennedy wanted the public option

His list of achievements is epic, but he worked to fix healthcare for 40 years. Let's finish the job in his name
By Joe Conason Aug 28, 2009

  • The end of an era

    They don't make families -- or politicians, or liberals -- like Teddy and the Kennedys anymore
    By Alan Wolfe August 27, 2009

  • Goodnight, moon travel

    It's time to save planet Earth. And our inspiration, once again, comes from JFK
    By Joseph Romm July 20, 2009

  • Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive?

    Come out of the closet, liberals. Stop using the fashionable euphemism "progressive" and relaunch the old, tarnished L-word.
    By Michael Lind November 21, 2008

  • Sorensen, former JFK speechwriter, speaks

    For the second day in a row, there was a passing of the torch from the Kennedys to Barack Obama, as Sorensen directly tied the presumptive nominee to his former boss.
    By Alex Koppelman August 26, 2008

  • Lieberman takes swipe at Democrats, Obama

    In an Op-Ed, the Connecticut senator bemoans what he sees as a change in the foreign policy of his off-again, on-again party.
    By Justin Jouvenal May 21, 2008

  • Obama/Kennedy vs. McCain/Goldwater

    This year's presidential contest is shaping up as the 1964 campaign that never happened
    By David Talbot May 21, 2008

  • Hacking into Freedom City

    "The Gulag Archipelago" meets "Counter-Strike" in China. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Deliver milk powder.
    By Andrew Leonard March 6, 2008

  • 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

  • The qualms before the storm

    How might Clinton and Obama handle the Oval Office? On the eve of Super Tuesday, what we still don't know could come back to haunt us.
    By Walter Shapiro February 4, 2008

  • This is not Romney's Kennedy moment

    Mitt Romney is caught between Mormonism and a hard place -- the fundamentalist Christian base of the modern GOP. And it's partly his own fault.
    By Andrew O'Hehir December 6, 2007

  • Arthur M. Schlesinger's playbill for the American century

    His personal journals unveil the glory and corruption of postwar presidents with emotional truth and power. Alas, the age of the great historian is over.
    By Sidney Blumenthal October 18, 2007

  • Lady Bird Johnson dead at 94

    The former first lady died Wednesday afternoon.
    By Alex Koppelman July 11, 2007

  • American goodwill, in shackles

    How Bush hardliners and even mainstream pundits have hogtied one of our greatest potential strengths in the war on terrorism.
    By P.W. Singer June 26, 2007

  • Better to be Hamlet than President George

    Doubt is a virtue, JFK told students 45 years ago. Without it we have the tragic bluster and empty optimism of political culture today.
    By Peter Birkenhead June 11, 2007

  • History according to Vanity Fair

    Ted Sorensen -- and Bruce Willis -- set the record straight on JFK.
    By David Talbot May 14, 2007

  • The wisdom of Ted Sorensen -- and Bruce Willis

    The Kennedy speechwriter, and the Republican star, set the record straight in Vanity Fair.
    By David Talbot May 14, 2007

  • Rome on the Potomac

    Real-life Washington could be just as sinister and treacherous as the HBO series set in the ancient imperial capital.
    By David Talbot May 3, 2007

  • The Kennedy legacy vs. the Bush legacy

    Cuba could easily have become the Iraq of its day. But fortunately JFK was no George W.
    By David Talbot May 2, 2007

  • Still searching for JFK

    When presidential candidates posture as the new JFK, do they realize he was more a dove than a hawk?
    By David Talbot May 2, 2007

  • "Brothers"

    The exclusive story of Robert F. Kennedy's secret search for the truth about John F. Kennedy's assassination. From the new book by Salon's founder and former editor in chief.
    By David Talbot May 2, 2007

  • Real inconvenient truths

    Our failed political dynasties, Pelosi's stylish appeal and George W. Bush as Queen Victoria. Plus: The hot air about global warming.
    By Camille Paglia April 11, 2007

  • New JFK film

    Haunting new footage of JFK and Jackie, moments moments before chaos.
    By Kerry Lauerman February 20, 2007

  • Too much Gore

    Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous -- and potentially irrelevant -- body of work.
    By Allen Barra January 3, 2007

  • The Galbraith I knew

    His biographer recalls how the late economist warned JFK about Vietnam -- and faulted conservative policies for worsening inequality in America.
    By Richard Parker May 1, 2006
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