Month: July 2016

Over the last two days of the Democratic convention the primaries began to slide into largely forgettable history and glimpses of the near-future began to snap into place. What had been largely a conversation about the...

Back in our July/August 2005 issue, we aired a debate about Hillary Clinton’s electability as a presidential candidate. Carl M. Cannon said she could win and Amy Sullivan argued that, while it was not proven that she could...

Various commentators, including Joe Klein and Jonathan Chait, have noted that the Democratic convention is much less about what’s wrong with America, whether that’s rising income inequality or the climate crisis or...

Nancy LeTourneau makes a great point when she says “It has been a long time since a sitting president was able to give a speech like that.” She didn’t mean that presidents haven’t been able to make good speeches at presidential...

That may not have been the last great speech of his presidency, but I think it was surely the last great high-pressure political speech. He compiled a record for rising to the challenge in those situations that may be matchable,...