Michael Scherer

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  • What you missed while watching "Ask a Ninja"

    Salon watches the fourth Democratic presidential (YouTube) debate so you don't have to.
    By Michael Scherer July 24, 2007

  • Sleepless in the Senate

    The Democrats launched an all-night offensive to force the Republicans to break with Bush on Iraq, but come morning the Republicans held firm.
    By Michael Scherer July 18, 2007

  • When Republicans attack

    At the National College Republican convention, the leader of the GOP tries to paint the Democratic candidates as historical losers.
    By Michael Scherer July 13, 2007

  • Dear Readers

    Salon's Washington correspondent responds to letters about his article "Hillary Is From Mars, Obama Is From Venus."
    By Michael Scherer July 12, 2007

  • Hillary is from Mars, Obama is from Venus

    In the Democratic presidential pack, the leading man is a woman and the leading woman is a man.
    By Michael Scherer July 12, 2007

  • John McCain goes off the rails

    He was once cast as the unbeatable GOP front-runner. But his straight talk on campaign finance and immigration may have set him on a crash course.
    By Michael Scherer and Walter Shapiro July 11, 2007

  • Make that four for McCain

    The Arizona senator's campaign staffers are dropping like flies.
    By Michael Scherer July 10, 2007

  • The Hillary and Bill show

    In Iowa, former President Clinton plays pitch-perfect helpmate -- well, almost -- to his presidential hopeful wife.
    By Michael Scherer July 4, 2007

  • Mitt Romney's biggest brand

    The Republican contender sells himself as the ultimate presidential product. But will America embrace a bona fide corporate candidate?
    By Michael Scherer June 25, 2007

  • What Ted Stevens, Bolivian cocaine and Halliburton have in common

    Or, how the Alaskan Inupiat Eskimos got a no-bid contract in South America from the U.S. government.
    By Michael Scherer June 19, 2007

  • What you missed while watching "Deal or No Deal"

    Salon watches the third GOP debate so you don't have to: God frowns on Giuliani, Romney does weird math on Iraq, Thompson proposes a Bush morality tour, and more.
    By Michael Scherer June 6, 2007

  • The Democratic Don Quixote

    Despite his résumé, an aw-shucks Bill Richardson has bumbled through the early presidential race. But can his bold position on Iraq make him a contender?
    By Michael Scherer June 5, 2007

  • Ron Paul is blowing up real good

    The rambunctious GOP candidate wants to drag the U.S. out of Iraq, can the war on drugs, and overturn the Patriot Act. No wonder Republican power brokers want to boot him off the stage.
    By Michael Scherer June 2, 2007

  • Three years for Scooter?

    Patrick Fitzgerald refutes his critics, while making the case for imprisoning Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
    By Michael Scherer May 25, 2007

  • Power to the people, 2.0

    Barack Obama and John Edwards are boldly abandoning me-first campaigns for online "political movements." Howard Dean, anyone?
    By Michael Scherer May 23, 2007

  • What you missed while watching "Dancing With the Stars"

    Salon watches the second Republican debate so you don't have to.
    By Michael Scherer May 16, 2007

  • The Matt Drudge primary

    How professional political operatives secretly control the news you read about the 2008 campaign. Hint: It involves the Drudge Report.
    By Michael Scherer May 14, 2007

  • Fred Thompson's biggest role yet

    In Orange County, the ex-Tennessee senator, "Law and Order" star and possible '08 contender acts presidential for a night.
    By Michael Scherer May 8, 2007

  • Make room for Daddy

    At the Reagan Library, the GOP's 2008 contenders compete for the Gipper's mantle -- and for the title of Most Macho.
    By Michael Scherer May 4, 2007

  • The feds are still looking for the E. coli

    As the bacterial outbreaks in Pennsylvania and California show, the USDA's food-safety division has trouble tracking down the slaughterhouses that produce tainted meat.
    By Michael Scherer May 1, 2007

  • Down and dirty with the GOP down South

    Vote buying, astroturfing, anonymous attacks -- the 2008 Republican contenders keep hitting each other below the belt in South Carolina.
    By Michael Scherer April 23, 2007

  • The attorney general's "tremendous credibility problem"

    Republicans and Democrats alike pummeled Alberto Gonzales in a daylong hearing that left the future of his job in doubt.
    By Michael Scherer April 20, 2007

  • John McCain: Bush's echo

    The senator and the president deliver nearly identical speeches about Iraq in the same state a day apart.
    By Michael Scherer April 12, 2007

  • Grilling Gonzales' fall guy

    Punishing hearings on the U.S. attorneys scandal brought no relief for the attorney general's disgraced former chief of staff, or the embattled White House.
    By Michael Scherer March 30, 2007

  • Attack ads on the sly

    Has a renegade anti-Hillary video on YouTube changed political campaigning as we know it?
    By Michael Scherer March 27, 2007
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