Will Obama claim a cultural war victory?
John Edwards did a large favor for Sen. Barack Obama, but the Illinois senator is not out of the woods yet. The former North Carolina senator's endorsement last week of...
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Obama’s next hurdles
Is it over yet? Everybody seems to be complaining about the endless Democratic presidential primaries. Sen. Barack Obama's supporters even wonder out loud whether Sen. Hillary Clinton will deliver a...
Pursuing the elusive white voter
Oh, no, she didn't. Or, as the hip-hop generation might say, "Oh, no, she di-int!" But, oh, yes, she di-id. A day after her hoped-for monster triumph in the Indiana...
One loving couple’s living legacy
There is a poignant significance to the passing last week of Mildred Loving at a time when a biracial senator leads the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Their stories...
With friends like these …
After cutting ties with his controversial former pastor, Sen. Barack Obama received a word of sympathy from an unusual source: a Republican. Former presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee says that Rev....
Wright does Obama wrong
For weeks, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was right to castigate those who used sound bites from his fiery sermons to paint him as "some sort of fanatic." But his latest...
Top court’s unfair play against fair play
Lilly Ledbetter worked in a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Gadsden, Ala., for 19 years before she received a valuable tip from an anonymous source: She was making...
Presidential debates on TV in peril
There may not be any more presidential debates between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, partly because of the bad aroma that ABC's interrogation before Pennsylvania's primary left behind in...
Doctor’s orders: Decide, Dems!
Physician Howard Dean is wrestling with every doctor's nightmare, a patient who has cold feet about taking his advice. The Democratic National Committee chairman's patient is his party's superdelegates, who...
‘Elitist’ card snubs the facts
Why do Americans look for people to look down on? We sometimes baffle ourselves with ambivalence toward ambition and success. We applaud "merit," for example, yet we turn up our...