Adam Serwer

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan has pulled his party (the Pakistan Muslim League-N) out of the Pakistani ruling coalition, citing the fact that Pakistan People’s Party Leader Asif Ali Zardari has failed to reinstate judges ousted by former President Pervez Musharraf. This isn’t just a matter of principle; Zardari is hesitating because the […]

Jonah Goldberg, August 22, 2008: Perhaps therein lies the answer to this supposed mystery. Indeed, perhaps there’s no mystery at all, and Obama’s problems are the same problems Democrats always have at the presidential level: He’s an elitist. Oh, I know. Upon reading that, some liberal spluttered herbal chai tea from her nose at the […]

Richard Cohen has some harsh words for his critics: “I used to get a lot more on the right,” said columnist Richard Cohen, who broke with liberals when he supported the Iraq War. More recently, the left has picked apart columns that are perceived as being favorable to John McCain. “If you’re a little bit […]

After years of jumping when Drudge says jump, Mark Halperin must be exceptionally well sourced, which is why I assume things like this comment on McCain’s housing problem won’t hurt his career. HALPERIN: My hunch is this is going to end up being one of the worst moments in the entire campaign for one of […]

Has more houses than Oprah. — A. Serwer

Matthew Yglesias points out that people at The National Review, a magazine that not only staunchly supported racial segregation in the South, but whose founder believed at the time that whites were “the advanced race” should probably avoid taking license with the beliefs of Martin Luther King Jr. William F. Buckley, dissembling mightily in his […]

Newly minted Political Animal Steve Benen and Andrew Sullivan are encouraged by a new Pew Poll that says more Americans are questioning the role of faith in politics. But after reading the poll, it’s not clear that this is anything but a temporary and terribly convenient shift. The new national survey by the Pew Research […]

Remember that scene in New Jack City, where there’s a shootout at a wedding, and just to make the villain Nino Brown more despicable, director Mario Van Peebles has him snatch a baby out of a nearby carriage and use it to shield himself from gunfire? Well the political version of that looks something like […]

This post has been edited from its original version. Rush Limbaugh, who has been driven utterly insane by the idea of a black man in higher office, just can’t take it anymore: Obama‘s patriotism is not being attacked in an ad. McCain‘s just out there saying he’s putting his own personal political ambition ahead of […]

Below, Tim notes that John McCain can’t remember how many houses he has at a time when even Americans with good credit are concerned about foreclosure.To be fair, McCain typically can’t remember his position on important political issues either, like say, his position on lobbyists. Yesterday, in an interview with The Politico McCain called lobbyists […]