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.

A crucial moment looms in the Iran debate, even as big questions remain unasked. Like, could we live with a nuclearized Tehran?

Are the controversial comments of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (or Larry Summers or Bill O’Reilly or NARAL) really so threatening?

Lost, stubborn, and surly, the GOP is rapidly rebranding itself as the bad-dad party. But can the Dems finally ditch their soft-mommy rep?

Are private-equity guys being unfairly singled out for the sins of our hypercapitalist age? Sure. But the punishment fits the non-crime.

We only pretend to talk seriously about Iraq. The politics of the war are Kabuki theater, punctuated by moments of Democratic jujitsu.