By • Jun 02,2008

1,740.5

That’s how many delegates Obama has; more precisely, that is the number of pledged delegates he has won in caucuses and primaries. Two primaries, and 31 pledged delegates, remain on...

By • Jun 02,2008

Should Hillary Drop Out Now?

By now my great love for Hillary has slopped itself all over the blogosphere, so my own answer to this question is clear enough. But as a matter of political...

By • Jun 02,2008

Losers on the Run

Sonny is right to accredit reports of al Qaeda´s timely demise as well-deserved good news. But it´s as good as occasion as any to exercise our contrarian muscles for the...

By • Jun 02,2008

Nightfall

M. Night Shyamalan’s new film, The Happening, hits theaters next weekend, and publicity is ramping up. There’s a piece in the New York Times today about the mercurial director and...

By • May 31,2008

Gerson's Straw Men

We all know that Michael Gerson’s theoretical compassion cashes out in practice as a seemingly neverending string of tendentious and condescending attacks on mean old Republicans. But who, exactly, are...