Nicholas Confessore can't believe Republicans would act "frosty" toward Gov. Spitzer - but doesn't mention "Troopergate," in which state police were misused to track the travel of Spitzer's ...
The return of Hillary the victim: "Even Democratic women with no intention of voting for Mrs. Clinton found themselves drawn into the debate and shaken by what briefly seemed like a humiliating ...
With Obama's rise, reporter Kirk Johnson sees the death penalty, global warming and gay marriage as issues that are becoming settled in the public mind - in ways that make liberals happy.
"But the moment is suffused, so as almost not to require that he make it explicit, with a sense of historical moment. I, you, we can make history, he says, by turning the nation's sorrowful racial ...
Populist and pragmatist? Yeah, right: "In 1988, the populist Jesse Jackson kept stony counsel before giving his nod to the pragmatist Michael Dukakis."
"Mr. McCain, then - after a year in which his campaign nearly collapsed, the Iraq war and a controversial immigration bill eroded his popularity, and he was forced to continue his candidacy on a ...
The Times' TV-beat correspondent loves Matthews' Obama worship, but CNN host and anti-illegal immigration crusader Lou Dobbs is "a nut about border crossings."
