Political Phenomenon

Want a perfect example of how the Beltway press distracts itself with trivia at the expense of……biggest to hit the Beltway in nearly 15 years: Can she recapture the Palin magic that made her a political phenomenon? Make herself a force beyond her staunch cultural conservative base? …

I think Jamie Kirchick has the politics pretty much exactly right. Eugene Robinson, Joe Conason……and/or their tacit support of it. Here's Robinson: If there has been a more clinically insane political phenomenon in my lifetime than the "birthers," I've missed it. Is this what our…

The young man from nowhere is today the most important man in the world, offering hope to millions the world over to dream and think big.

"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what……John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson," writes Kesler: Barack Obama is in some respects a new political phenomenon. To state the obvious, he is young, gifted, and black, and as Nina Simone…

From a reader: Subject: Daschle, Rangel, Dodd and Bertrand de Juvenal Jonah, I picked up De Juvenal's The Ethics of Redistribution and……dealing with is not a political even more than a social phenomenon. This political phenomenon consists in the demolition of the class…

On Friday, New York Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein reported on the faith of Sarah Palin. Palin has avoided specific answers on her……is what is known as Christian Fascism. Her particular brand of this political phenomenon was responsible for the murder of a quarter of a…

Every time a Democrat wins the presidential race, the deniers of liberal media bias insist that the Democrat drew better media coverage only…… But much of that was because the media were covering an extraordinary political phenomenon. Not that Obama got a pass. It's hard to…

The recently released AP-Yahoo News poll is further evidence that race, or rather, America's convoluted reaction to race, presents a reality for……should be walking away with this election. He has been a political phenomenon since bursting onto the national scene at the 2004 Dem

New York, August 4: We have all heard the line, 'DA NILE is not just a river in Egypt.' Denial can be a pervasive social and political phenomenon. Some of us just don't want to know the truth or face its consequences. Maybe that's why we envelop ourselves in national myths to survive. We want…

We do not forget what we have faced in our life time history and the history of Iran when we read it, full of pain , bloodshed , war , dictatorship, despotism,treason,nationalism , human rights violation, martyrdom ,bravery, sacrifice and many many social, cultural and political phenomenon. In…

HuffPost has comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos and video. Over-stimulated, perhaps, by……the Tea Party movement, helping elevate a somewhat confined topic into a political phenomenon. Clips like these don't do much to dissuade…

The countdown has been reduced to four days for Datuk Seri Najib Razak to be anointed as UMNO President in the UMNO General Assembly, as he has……domain by concerned and patriotic Malaysians – a completely new political phenomenon in the nation’s 52-year history as this…

My favorite quote of the last couple of weeks: Jon Stewart: Fox was……got a show on your fucking network! -The Daily Show “If there's been a more clinically insane political phenomenon in my lifetime than the "birthers," I've missed it. Is this what our…

Lenin was forced to attempt a reconstruction of his understanding of the world. The reconstruction he achieved was considerable, inasmuch as it……simpler nature. Reformist politics were, in this argument, not a mass political phenomenon; they were confined to the labour…