Presidential Race

Sarah Palin is ruining my life Sarah Palin is ruining my life

I rant about her; I can't stop thinking about her; I cannot stand to look at her; I'm possessed by her!
By Cary Tennis Sep 29, 2008

  • The battle of the literary endorsements

    Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison have both gone public with their presidential picks. What do their overwrought odes tell us about the candidates they favor?
    By Laura Miller January 31, 2008

  • Sound and fury on the campaign trail

    The debate over the Clinton campaign's remarks on race has favored symbol over substance, and that's bad for black America.
    By Lester Spence January 14, 2008

  • The NIE changed everything. Yeah, right

    Bush can pretend it didn't happen, but the aftershocks of the intelligence community's reversal on Iran may be felt for a long time.
    By Joan Walsh December 5, 2007

  • America's next top spouse

    A guide to the brassy, opinionated, loud, difficult and plum-crazy partners on the arms of their president-running partners. Who says the campaign season is dull?
    By Rebecca Traister November 13, 2007

  • Chris Dodd pushes the energy envelope

    The presidential candidate is alone in calling for a carbon tax -- he says voters can "handle the truth."
    By Amanda Griscom Little September 10, 2007

  • The New York Times misses the CNN/YouTube debate

    "Novices" can't get better answers from politicians than "journalists," the paper says. Which debate did they watch?
    By Joan Walsh July 25, 2007

  • Hillary Clinton's balancing act

    She's most popular with women -- but many remain wary.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory July 20, 2007

  • Giuliani's loyalty to an accused priest

    A grand jury accused Alan Placa of molestation and his diocese has suspended him, but the presidential candidate continues to employ his lifelong best friend as a consultant.
    By Alex Koppelman and Joe Strupp June 22, 2007

  • Bloomberg's ambitions

    The billionaire mayor of New York could easily fund a bid for the presidency. But what are his political convictions?
    By Joe Conason June 22, 2007

  • The ladies man

    Kate Michelman, lifelong feminist and former head of NARAL, talks about why she's signed up to work for John Edwards.
    By Rebecca Traister January 29, 2007

  • Hillary's going exploratory

    Senator makes an online announcement.
    By David Puner January 22, 2007

  • The Warner-less race

    What the former Virginia governor's surprising withdrawal means for Hillary, Edwards and the rest of the Dems vying for the Oval Office in '08.
    By Walter Shapiro October 13, 2006

  • Was the 2004 election stolen? No.

    In Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argues that new evidence proves that Bush stole the election. But the evidence he cites isn't new and his argument is filled with distortions and blatant omissions.
    By Farhad Manjoo June 3, 2006

  • Putting out for women

    Martha Stewart played nice at this year's glittery, bipartisan Women's Campaign Fund benefit -- but Al Franken couldn't resist tormenting the GOP.
    By Rebecca Traister March 16, 2006

  • Life of the Party

    Brian Schweitzer, the blue governor of the red state of Montana, may just have the answer to the Democrats' woes.
    By Tim Grieve April 19, 2005

  • Politics as crack cocaine

    Novelist Stephen Elliott talks about John Kerry the guitar strummer and avid reader, George W. Bush the magnetic caveman, and his own loopy new book about the 2004 campaign.
    By Alex Mar October 27, 2004

  • Welcome to the Parade of October Surprises!

    Block the vote. A loofah in every shower. One flu over the Cuckoo's Nest. There's no telling what we'll see!
    By Joyce McGreevy October 23, 2004

  • In polls we trust?

    Bush leads by 10 points. No, wait, Kerry's up by 5. No, Nader's on top! OK -- that's not true, but in the ever crazier world of election polls, who knows what's next?
    By Farhad Manjoo October 6, 2004

  • When Republicans attack

    The Swift boat ads have been exposed by the press as blatantly false, but that hasn't stopped the Bush machine from pushing them. Has Kerry figured out how to fight back against the lies and the lying liars who tell them?
    By Tim Grieve August 25, 2004

  • Whose is bigger?

    Bush and the GOP are trying to paint Kerry as a Euro-wimp and girlie man. But the Dems have a chance to show America that it's Bush who's the real 97-lb. weakling.
    By Alessandro Camon August 7, 2004
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