Gerry Canavan

A tenatative deal has been reached on the bailout , with House Republicans still making noise that they may scuttle it. Krugman, for his pa...

Trying to puzzle out John McCain's motive for the campaign suspension stunt is proving rather difficult. A lot of people are looking to...

McCain wants to cancel the debate? What? Republican John McCain said Wednesday he was suspending his White House campaign and asked to put ...

On the politics front, the new GOP line (apparently) is that Sarah Palin isn't ready to be president after all —yet. I'm certain t...

I've been pleasantly surprised by the seriousness with which the mainstream media has handled John McCain's veepstakes roll of the ...

Morning links. * The protests in St. Paul turned violent yesterday, with police tear-gassing the crowd. They had come in their thousands – ...

More and more evidence mounts that the McCain camp didn't actually vet Palin at all. They didn't read a single article in the Wasil...

Last words for a while on Palin. * Andrew Sullivan of all people has been absolutely brutal, all day, hitting just about every objection to...

A text message from an old friend raises a question about my last post, in which I called the Palin selection the most "cynically sho...