Dylan Matthews

Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola‘s attempts to break the Anglican Communion apart continue: Anglican conservatives, frustrated by the continuing stalemate over homosexuality in the Anglican Communion, declared Sunday that they would defy historic lines of authority and create a new power bloc within the communion led by a council predominantly of African archbishops. […] They insisted […]

The Obama campaign is adding more former Clinton people to its staff, and the latest hire is Neera Tanden, the Clinton campaign’s former policy director, who’ll be running domestic policy for Obama. One of Tanden’s more notable roles in the Clinton campaign was helping to develop her health care proposal. Between this and Obama health […]

Nancy Pelosi proposed an unlikely candidate as Barack Obama‘s running-mate yesterday — Texas Rep. Chet Edwards. Edwards represents the 17th district, a heavily Republican area with a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+18. He’s also notable as the only Democratic congressman targeted by Tom DeLay‘s 2003 redistricting plan to survive. While the appeal of picking […]

New York State Senate majority leader Joseph L. Bruno, the highest-ranking Republican in the state, announced last night that he won’t seek reelection to the Senate this year. Bruno has been majority leader for fourteen years now, twelve years of which he served alongside George Pataki and Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver. This era was the […]

Editors’ Note: Dylan Matthews is a summer 2008 Prospect editorial intern. The annual Foreign Policy/Prospect list of the “World’s Top Public Intellectuals” is out, and the top ten, for the first time, is composed entirely of Muslims. Topping the list is Philadelphia-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, followed by Nobel laureate and microcredit pioneer Muhammed Yunus, […]