Ex-gov didn’t want to just read a “Top Ten List.”

The former Jon Stewart protégé created an entire comic persona out of right-wing doublespeak, trampling the boundary between parody and politics. Which makes him the perfect spokesman for a political season in which everything is imploding.

Ferrer, insurance man.

I don’t have enough time to finger-point,” declared an uncharacteristically busy President Bush last week, but self-exculpating digits and tongues were wagging everywhere else.

Can Bloomberg�s firearms initiatives hit their target? Turf wars, slander suits bedevil crusade.

Serial charmer and conservative turncoat Arianna Huffington reinvents herself yet again—as self-help guru and queen of connectedness.

(Are 9/11 conspiracists jealous?)

Bo Dietl: I’m more qualified.

Manhattan remained the world’s capital of geopolitical stand-up.

The junior senator from Illinois might take the country to a place it’s never been, past the baby boom, beyond race. To many Democrats, and even a lot of Republicans, the prospect is thrilling—but is it for real?