McCain and Obama seem like funny guys, so why are their campaigns anything but?

The commentariat Russert leaves behind has never been larger, or louder. But is it really any more powerful?

For New York’s founding editor, the city was like a giant novel waiting to be written, a pageant of ambition. And no one wrote it better than he did.

Ten November scenarios to give an Obama supporter agita.

If Barack is out of touch with America, then the media must be too.

Could Democrats and Republicans be finding new common ground—in seeing the ugly truth about their erstwhile heroes?

Only, as it turns out in this election, in three (more or less) hard-and-fast cases.

(Romney + Huckabee)/3 + .01 McCain + √Giuliani = Bush. And some other things we’ve learned about this long, strange race.

The surge is working! Yikes. Stem cells can be harvested embryo-free! Boo-hoo. A recession in the offing? Happy days are near again.