LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- The telling moment Saturday night at the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency comes just before the end when the mega-church's pastor Rick Warren asks Senator John McCain "What about -- you -- we're seeing Russia reasserting itself in Georgia, and maybe now Poland. What's happening?"...

Mary Matalin, I've always admired your feistiness and fine mind -- and over the last year I appreciate as well how difficult it is for women in media, for there is indeed an undercurrent of sexism, and that means you, Jake Tapper, yukking it up on This Week with George...

When Senator John McCain takes the stage at Bally's Convention Center in Las Vegas on Saturday, his audience -- those among the several thousand members of Disabled American Veterans (DAVs) who can -- rise to their feet in a spontaneous standing ovation. At the end of McCain's speech, the audience,...

HENDERSON, Nev. -- Barack Obama has a sweet rally today in Keehi Lagoon Beach Park and then a week in Honolulu with his family. John McCain is quipping about the life-sized butter cow making her debut right about now and then taking the speaker's box at the Iowa State Fair....

STURGIS -- What does it say about the McCain Campaign that the poster for Monday's event featured a bar blond in chaps and bikini-top riding a buffalo, her left hand in a tuft of b-hair, her right cradling a beer? John McCain -- his photo -- is smaller and below...

**Update/Correction**
Michelle Obama's office has clarified details about the Park Avenue article. Although dated 2008 in Park Avenue magazine, Leibovitz apparently took the photograph last year for Vogue magazine. Moreover, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, Michelle Obama's press secretary, states that Park Avenue writer Steffi Kammerer never interviewed Mrs. Obama. "The...

In the wake of Senator Obama's appearance in Berlin last Thursday evening, the site for his speech, the Victory column in the Tiergarten, has become prophecy. If Senator McCain achieves what would until Thursday have seemed to be an improbable victory come fall, his opponent's decision to give a foreign...

9:00 PM, BERLIN, 24 July 2008

Back at the Adlon and pondering the speech. Live blogging, you only capture a moment. I'll be thinking about Obama's introduction of himself to the Old World for a long time. Basically, he gave the speech that many of us Americans knew he would...

BERLIN -- On what used to be the East German side of the Brandenburg Gate, Linnea and Julia, two American college students, have been spending this sunny Wednesday afternoon handing out blue postcards advertising Barack Obama's appearance tomorrow at the Siegessaule, the Uberphallic Victory statue in the Tiergarten, less than...

The John McCain town hall meeting is a fraud. Unlike other writers at HuffPost, I want John McCain to do well this summer, so it pains me to report this. "I believe the town hall meeting is the most important element of democracy," Senator McCain said last week in Portsmouth,...

When Senators Obama and McCain give the keynote addresses for the Sunday brunch (Obama) and Monday lunch (McCain) in San Diego at the fortieth anniversary convention of the National Council of La Raza, the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., NCLR president Jane Murguia enacts...

A week after Senator Obama and his campaign descended upon Eastside Community Ministries in Zanesville, Ohio, where Obama delivered his controversial remarks calling for an expansion of federal funding to faith-based ministries that deliver social services, I head to Zanesville to see if its churches share the Senator's vision. After...

Barack Obama's Zanesville, Ohio, remarks on July 1st, in which he pledged a continuation, if reorganization, of the Bush Administration's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, are part of a larger Obama religious outreach called the American Values Campaign, a "journey," in which the Obama camp is mulling the role of...

BUCKS COUNTY, Penn. -- Driving through the rolling hills and horse pastures here, the miles dotted with antiques stores, fieldstone houses and the orange daylilies of summer, I kept thinking that any minute I would be making a turn from the land of Fox Chase Bank and Cock n Bull...

Ah, the infectious chaos of the campaign trail! I'm on a yellow school bus groaning up yet another New Hampshire hill. Or are we in Vermont? Unclear. The bus driver doesn't know the way to Unity. None of the local Obama volunteers know either; none of them have ever seen...

Yesterday, wearing my finest Jordanian textiles and therefore looking a bit out-of-place in midtown Manhattan at noon, I walked to the Reuters Building on Times Square, where Meenakshi Ravi of Al Jazeera's "The Listening Post" had arranged to speak with me via satellite feed. Meena had emailed me her questions...

On the first morning of this year's PDF, Micah Sifry, editor of the Personal Democracy Forum and co-founder of TechPresident.com, said, "I'm a big believer in the wisdom of crowds." By the end of the second day at this largely but not exclusively liberal/progressive conference, a confidence in crowds had...

Here I am in New York laughing along with Jonathan Zittrain, of Harvard Law and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, as he talks about the day a single incident in Pakistan caused the crash of YouTube worldwide. "There's the thin nerdy line between us and chaos," he says....

Last night at a political meeting in my neighborhood, progressive writer and occasional Huff Post blogger David Sirota used the addition of centrist economist Jason Furman to the Obama team as an object lesson in placing too much faith in politicians. "Barack Obama is an empty vessel," Sirota said,...

Today I'm breaking in my new column with a bit of back story about covering the candidates on the ground, on the trail, from the weeds and broken asphalt yards and a world away from the Greyhound buses that carry the traveling press. If I'm late to a campaign event,...