Week of August 25, 2008
Up Front
Campaign 2008: Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
News at Home
Channeling Cheney: Did Obama Overcompensate with Biden?
Gil Troy
“Let’s Talk Sense to the American People:” Adlai Stevenson’s Memorable 1952 Acceptance Speech
Jean Baker
Thoughts on a Black First Lady in Waiting
Arica L. Coleman
"Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit"
Patrick Cox
Obama, McCain, Bush, Age, Experience, and Wisdom
Walter Moss
We Need to Know More About Biden's Health
Steve Lomazow
Our Childish Debate About John McCain's Marriage to a Wealthy Woman
Rick Shenkman
News Abroad
How Moscow's Using Russian Citizenship as an Excuse for an Invasion
Andreas Umland
Why Tom Friedman Is Wrong on Russia and Wrong on Energy
Judith Apter Klinghoffer
Change the Iraqis Can Believe In? Why Obama–Biden Could Mean More of the Same (Or Maybe Something Worse)
Reidar Visser
Rushing toward War with Iran
William R. Polk
Historians & History
Culture Watch
The Dark Knight: An Allegory of America in the Age of Bush?
Ron Briley
Books
Review of David Freddoso's The Case Against Barack Obama
Joseph Palermo
Review of Jerome Corsi's The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality
Joseph Palermo