The Editors

Over at TAP Online Spencer Ackerman interviews A.J. Rossmiller about his new book, Still Broken: Spencer Ackerman: I won’t pretend I’ve finished Still Broken, your excellent memoir/cri de coeur of your experiences as an intelligence officer in Iraq. But what I’ve read is excellent, and anyone interested in either Iraq or intelligence work will find […]

Paul Waldman returns to the two pieces he penned for us last July on the power of campaign narratives. Obama, he argues, is the one who has nailed it: … indeed, as long ago as his explosion into national consciousness at the Democratic convention in 2004—Obama has been telling a story perfectly keyed to the […]

Over at TAP Online we have the second installment in our dialogue about HBO’s The Wire. Every three episodes, we’re hosting a discussion of the series between TAP Online writers. This week, Kriston Capps kicks off our dialogue about episodes four, five, and six. Warning–contains spoilers. (If you missed the first one, catch up here.) […]

Kate Sheppard reports on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act: After a contentious mark-up process and narrow passage out of the Environment and Public Works Committee in December, debate over climate legislation is heating up again as the committee chair, Sen. Barbara Boxer, works to round up votes to get the bill passed this spring. If […]

Tom Schaller on last night’s results: Barack Obama continued his undefeated run through the post-Super Tuesday states yesterday with comfortable, double-digit wins over Hillary Clinton of 23, 29 and 51 points in Maryland, Virginia and District of Columbia, respectively, in the so-called “Potomac Primary.” Most critical for the Obama campaign was his landslide win in […]

Paul Waldman on the presumptive Republican nominee: If you asked a hundred reporters what one word they would use to describe John McCain, ninety-nine would probably answer, “Maverick.” Indeed, they’ve become so used to attaching “maverick” to McCain that it has become almost a part of his name; “the maverick John McCain” is used in […]

Terence Samuel reports on Donna Edwards‘ challenge to incumbent Congressman Al Wynn in Maryland’s 4th Congressional District: When voters in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia go to the polls tomorrow, the battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will share the stage with an equally intense primary in Maryland’s 4th Congressional District, where […]

Dana reports on Barack Obama‘s potential demographic problem: February’s post-Super Tuesday primary schedule obscures Obama’s central demographic weakness, one that could come back to haunt him in the crucial March and April contests of Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania: In the more populous, heterogeneous states where Obama’s victories have been narrower or where he came in […]

Robert Kuttner on the dueling versions of the economic stimulus package: Senate Democrats and Republicans are currently debating whether to pass a stimulus bill that spends $158 billion (the Senate Democratic package)—or the $145 billion passed by the House. Senate Majority leader Harry Reid is currently one vote short of the 60 senators that he […]

Over at TAP Online, Mark Schmitt comments on last nights results: The Republican race has also had important interactions with the Democratic one. For the week and a half since the Republican South Carolina primary, it had become an implicit race against John McCain, and as a result for the only time all year, there’s […]