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John Warner Was the Glamorous Republican Heretic of the Senate The late senator figured he’d only be remembered for his marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, but it should be for his struggle against extremism in the GOP.
By Ed Kilgore
Fritz Mondale, Public Servant The old-school liberal and party loyalist redefined the vice-presidency.
By Ed Kilgore
sex scandals
Feb. 24, 2021
Fanne Fox, Wilbur Mills, and a Tale of Washington Hubris The woman involved in the implosion of one of Washington’s most bloated careers has died, and with her a golden era of D.C. sex scandals.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Big Mo Matters to Biden Past presidents — including Barack Obama — who got off to a slow or clumsy start often paid dearly for it. Biden wants to avoid that fate.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
July 30, 2019
What Does the History of Black Primary Voting Tell Us About 2020? It’s not totally clear whether Harris or Booker will perform like Barack Obama in 2008 or like Al Sharpton in 2004.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Apr. 16, 2019
William Weld Isn’t Going to Save the GOP From Trump The former turned current Republican is as much of a threat to Trump as the gnats Richard Nixon swatted aside in 1972.
By Ed Kilgore
How Late Can Stacey Abrams Launch a Presidential Candidacy? A September announcement would be risky for the popular Georgian, but not necessarily fatal.
By Ed Kilgore
what’s past is prologue
Mar. 23, 2019
How Jimmy Carter’s Election Previewed Trump’s As Carter becomes the oldest ex-president, it’s useful to remember how strange and unusual his rise to the White House actually was.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Mar. 22, 2019
4 Reasons Democrats Will Have a Front-runner Soon — and 3 They Won’t More than likely someone will eventually stroll to the nomination in 2020. But maybe not so fast and maybe not at all.
By Ed Kilgore
Birch Bayh, Liberal Lion of the Senate, Dies at 91 Bayh’s proudest accomplishment was the Title IX law banning gender discrimination in higher education. He was also chief Senate sponsor of the ERA.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 presidential election
Dec. 12, 2018
Warning to Beto-Maniacs: Early Presidential Buzz Can Be an Omen or an Illusion Beto O’Rourke is looking very good as a 2020 presidential prospect. But others have looked just as good and have quickly flamed out or failed to run.
By Ed Kilgore
The Powerful Myth of the Would-Be President RFK, 50 Years Later Robert F. Kennedy promised a kind of mind-bending coalition of minorities and white working-class voters that progressives still crave.
By Ed Kilgore
A Democratic Wave in the Midterms Could Expose Trump to a 2020 Primary Challenge Trump stands athwart the GOP like a colossus right now. But like him, his party doesn’t like losers.
By Ed Kilgore
Orrin Hatch to Retire, Meaning We Might See Senator Mitt Romney in 2019 Having the GOP presidential nominee and anti-Trump firebrand in the Republican caucus would be interesting.
By Ed Kilgore
casting couch
July 20, 2016
By Devon Ivie
the industry
Mar. 15, 2016
Matthew Perry to Play Ted Kennedy in Mini-series It’ll focus on the relationship between Ted and Jackie.
By Nate Jones
Now You Too Can Learn How Much Being a Senator Sucks Senators current and former head to Boston to dedicate the Ted Kennedy Institute of the U.S. Senate.
By Jaime Fuller
Did Harry Reid ‘Use’ Ted Kennedy’s Illness? A new book about the Obama stimulus plan says yes.
By Andre Tartar
early and often
Jan. 20, 2011
Phew, Our Kennedy-less Congress May Only Last Two Years Ted Kennedy’s son could maybe, possibly run for the Senate.
By Dan Amira
early and awkward
Oct. 8, 2010
By Dan Amira
early and often
Jan. 19, 2010
Seven Things That Will Happen After Scott Brown’s Win How today’s Massachusetts special election could change everything.
By Chris Rovzar
early and often
Jan. 18, 2010
By Adam K. Raymond
early and often
Jan. 17, 2010
By Jason Zengerle
early and often
Jan. 15, 2010
Time for Democrats to Start Freaking Out Over Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown really could win, and ruin health-care reform.
By Dan Amira
early and often
Jan. 13, 2010
By Chris Rovzar
health carnage
Jan. 5, 2010
One Crazy Way Health-Care Reform Could Fail Could Democrats lose their filibusterproof majority before the final vote?
By Dan Amira
early and often
Sept. 23, 2009
By Chris Rovzar
ted kennedy
Sept. 3, 2009
Ted Kennedy’s Book Tells of Secret RFK-LBJ Meeting Robert Kennedy wanted to go to Vietnam to broker peace in 1967, but for personal reasons LBJ said no.
By Chris Rovzar
mobama watch
Aug. 31, 2009
By Amy Odell
Thousands Pay Respects to Ted Kennedy in Boston Bostonians lined the streets of the city yesterday afternoon to see the liberal lion’s casket progress toward his brother’s presidential library.
By Chris Rovzar
in other news
Aug. 27, 2009
Five Random Things We Learned About Ted Kennedy Like having the first congressional website before most people were aware of the Internet.
By Dan Amira
in other news
Aug. 27, 2009
When Newspapers First Mentioned Chappaquiddick Yesterday The Boston ‘Globe’ beat everyone else to the punch yesterday.
By Dan Amira
early and awkward
Aug. 27, 2009
Ted Kennedy’s Last Wish Fulfilled? Massachusetts may be coming around to appointing a quick replacement for Kennedy.
By Dan Amira
Never Meant to Be President: Ted Kennedy, Survivor He lived, and served, long enough to appreciate politics as a messy craft with a long horizon.
By Peter Keating
Ted Kennedy’s New York Connections Back off, Boston — he’s ours, too.
By Dan Amira
Celebrity Settings
Aug. 26, 2009
Ted Kennedy’s Favorite Restaurants Where the Senator liked to eat in Boston.
By Leila Cohan-Miccio
what other people think
Aug. 26, 2009
Could Kennedy’s Death Save Health-Care Reform? The passing of Ted Kennedy changes the math in the Senate, but could it end up helping the Democrats?
By Dan Amira
in other news
Aug. 26, 2009
How We’re Remembering Ted Kennedy Is he first a “liberal lion”? A “family patriarch”? The “health-care power broker”? Or are people this morning talking about something else?
By Chris Rovzar
Ted Kennedy, ‘Liberal Lion of the Senate,’ Dies at 77 President Obama called him the “greatest United States senator of our time.”
By Chris Rovzar
Condé Nast Is ‘Operating Like General Motors’ And more grim news about the struggling media industry.
By Kathryn H. Cusimano
Barack Obama: Conductor At Ted Kennedy’s musical birthday salute last night at the Kennedy Center (natch), the president took on a new role
By Chris Rovzar
early and often
Jan. 22, 2009
Not So Fast: Ted Kennedy Insiders Already Annoyed at Caroline Even the hint that she stepped down because of his health has gotten some people peeved.
By Chris Rovzar
inaugur-nation!
Jan. 21, 2009
Ted Kennedy Recovering Well His seizure yesterday was due to ‘simple fatigue.’
By Chris Rovzar
early and often
Nov. 18, 2008
Ted Kennedy Back in Action And he’s back in charge of the Democrats’ health-care hopes, Hillary Clinton be damned.
By Chris Rovzar
The First Five Minutes of the ‘Gossip Girl’ Season Premiere! In a short time we learn that Chuck is a ho, Nate is a ho, Dan is a ho, and Serena wears satin on the beach. This is going to be phenomenal.
By Chris Rovzar
in other news
July 1, 2008
‘The New Republic’ Tries to Read Caroline Kennedy’s Mind And in it, they see that she’s using Obama to restore some luster to the Kennedy name. We didn’t know it needed restoration.
it just happened
May 20, 2008
Senator Ted Kennedy Has Brain Tumor, Doctors Say He is currently resting comfortably, reports his family, and a plan of treatment is still uncertain.
early and often
Jan. 28, 2008
Ted Kennedy’s Considerable Weight Handy in Obama Endorsement Barack Obama came away from Saturday’s shellacking of Hillary Clinton in South Carolina with more than a few delegates: Ted Kennedy, elder statesmen of liberal politics, is throwing his considerable heft (bloat?) behind Obama’s candidacy. And of course his niece Caroline Kennedy, JFK’s daughter, also endorsed Obama in the Times . What will be the impact of Camelot’s endorsement? Not much? Or, as seems to be the popular consensus, a whole lot?
gossipmonger
Nov. 28, 2007
Heath Ledger Has a Supermodel in His Sights Heath Ledger has been stalking Gemma Ward around town and also tried hitting on (taken) Heather Graham. The server who brought Chelsea Clinton the wrong appetizer at Irving Mill may or may not have been fired. Calvin Klein is vandalizing his Houston Street billboard for the opening of the New Museum on the Bowery. NBC honcho Jeff Zucker doesn’t want the strike to end because retail advertisers have already bought up ad space, and now production costs are zero. Kimora Lee Simmons was overheard saying that the reason she invited Russell Simmons’s new girlfriend, Porschla Coleman, to meet the “major players” at Simmons’s birthday last month is because she “wants this stupid bitch to get a clue.” Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. just bought an $18.75 million condo in the Carhart mansion on East 95th Street.
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