Marc Cooper

HILLARY CLINTON HAS FINALLY FIGURED OUT how to win a few big states. She had tried, alternately, the poses of inevitability, experience, motherliness, wisdom, scrappiness and steadfastness, all to little avail. Finally, she's found the solution. After all, her campaign now calls itself "Solutions for America." To heal her own......

IN MOST ALL OF THE POST-DEBATE coverage of Tuesday night's televised Ohio cage match between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, so much focused on the candidates' nitpicking over NAFTA, trade and health care that the larger point was overlooked: that this could have been, in fact will most likely be,......

Hillary Clinton fired her coaches and swapped out her trainers. But she's fumbled again. She's punted through 10 states in a row. And now, with just minutes to go on the clock, she finds herself pushed back to her own five-yard line. And a hard-charging Obama, fired up and ready......

WITH GREAT PRIDE, I ACCEPTED the honor a few months back of being labeled "the state's worst political journalist" by one of the party flacks who works for the soon-to-be ex-speaker of the Assembly, Fabian Núñez. In this business, it's all about collecting the right enemies. And now I'm just......

A RISING BARACK OBAMA had been furiously racing the clock these past two weeks. His rival was time, not Hillary Clinton. The more voters saw him, the stronger he got. The more they saw Clinton, the more she withered. The buzzer sounded Tuesday night and the scorecard was clear: Obama......

Treading the Democratic campaign trail this past year from Carson City to Seattle, from Phoenix to Albuquerque, and then this frenetic month from Iowa to Nevada and now back to California, I witnessed two truly extraordinary moments, two incidents that have forever been etched into my memory. Mr. Fish (Click......

At one heated point in Monday night's South Carolina Democratic debate, a perturbed Barack Obama finally blurted out to Hillary Clinton what millions of others have been thinking these past weeks. After Clinton said that what her husband says might be different than what she says or what her campaign......

Did longtime Clinton family bagman Terry McAuliffe nail it late Tuesday night just moments after the networks called New Hampshire for Hillary Clinton? “It was that humanizing moment yesterday,” a jubilant McAuliffe told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, referring to Hillary Clinton’s much-televised tearing up as she complained what an unrecognized burden......

DES MOINES, IOWA —This is one of the strangest columns I’ve ever had to write. I tap this out in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, a day before the dramatic first-in-the-country presidential caucuses. And yet, thanks to the peculiarities of the technology and mechanics of the publishing industry, most......