Marc Cooper

TIM RUSSERT HAS BEEN DEAD for more than three days now and has not yet been resurrected, so it must mean that he wasn’t Jesus after all. Just the pope. It should come as little surprise, at a time when the sanctity — and the sanctimoniousness — of the media......

If there was one single moment this past historic Tuesday night that was most fraught with the potential embodied in the political juncture, it transpired exactly at 6:01 p.m. on the West Coast. The polls had just closed in South Dakota as an oddly lit and physically laboring John McCain......

DURING THIS SAME WEEK that Barack Obama clinched the majority of pledged Democratic Party delegates, the presidential mash-up was more frenzied than ever. But not between Obama and Hillary Clinton. No. It was a knockdown, blood-on-the-floor, caged grudge match between Clinton and McCain to see who could more brutally beat......

EXCEPT FOR THE PAPERWORK, it’s all over now. Barack Obama is now the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. He grabbed the brass ring on Tuesday night by crushing Hillary Clinton in North Carolina and coming within a whisker of surpassing her in Indiana. This is the second or......

AS THE GOOD TIDINGS FOR HILLARY CLINTON came in Tuesday night, Philly Mayor Michael Nutter told an amped crowd of her supporters that, as far as he’s concerned, “A win is a win.” The mayor is absolutely right. With a comfortable 10-point margin, Hillary Clinton handily won the Pennsylvania primary......

WE KNOW THAT SPRING HAS officially arrived in Washington. And not just because of the blooming of the cherry blossoms along the banks of the Potomac. There’s also the predictable flowering of the bar graphs, pie charts and florid slides inside the congressional committee rooms. They pop alive now every......

HILLARY CLINTON SPUTTERED one line of scrambled syntax last week about her 1996 trip to Bosnia that has lodged in my head and driven me bonkers. I patiently waited for some reporter or another to ask her about it. Exasperated, I called the Clinton campaign myself to ask about this......

It’s not much of a risk to venture that Barack Obama’s much-noted speech on his association with the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright not only reinflated his wounded campaign but — much more likely — sealed his nomination. I caught his talk out of the corner of my eye on a......