Hillary Clinton Wins in Nevada!
Hillary Clinton won the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, capturing strong support from women voters. It also underscored her strength among Hispanic voters. This adds fresh momentum to her campaign as the Democratic race heads to South Carolina.
Hillary Clinton Talks about Monica Lewinsky Affair on Tyra Banks Show
Exactly a decade after the Monica Lewinsky affair was first reported, the former first lady candidly revealed how she worked through the inner torment it caused, as she battles Barack Obama for the Democratic White House nomination.
Bill Clinton: Pumping It Up for Hillary
A little of the old Clinton magic is lighting up the campaign trail in Nevada. Not Hillary Clinton's magic – she may be formidable in her own right, but still comes across to most audiences as awkward and carefully calibrated – but rather Bill's.
Today's Issue: What Does Obama's "Change" Really Mean? [Clip]
Obama talks about "the audacity of hope", as if daring to hope for something means it will happen. This is the Tinkerbell, "clap hands if you believe in fairies", school of political discourse. It's the desperation of false optimism.
Last Week's Front Page Photo Stories [13-18 January]
Sex & the Female Libido [Men Who Feel Inadequate]
Sex Trends: "Pegging" [Woman-to-Man Penetration]
Barack Obama's Cockiness
God, Sex & Repression
Male & Female Circumcision: Genital Mutilation?
A President's Bit of Stuff
Designer Vagina
US Economy in Crisis: Bush Rearranges Deckchairs on the Titanic
Bush's economic 'stimulus' package, after months and years of declaring that the US economy is “fundamentally sound,” shows that the vast dimensions of the financial crisis have become evident even to the most blinkered “free market” ideologues.
Affluenza: It's a Mad, Mad World
You know what it's like. You work 56 hours a week just to pay for the petrol to put in the SUV to clear enough debt to take out a new loan to pay for the Botox you need to keep looking young enough to stop you getting fired so you can keep working to pay for the ...
The Old Bill: Prospective First Gentleman Makes Persuasive Case for his Wife
A little of the old Clinton magic is lighting up the campaign trail in Nevada. Not Hillary Clinton's magic – she may be formidable in her own right, but still comes across to most audiences as awkward and carefully calibrated – but rather Bill's.
The week the economy turned nasty
Retail sales plummet; gas and electricity prices soar, further eating into already squeezed disposable incomes; Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, two of the great symbols of American capitalism, forced to hand round the begging bowl among Asian and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds after massive write-downs on US sub-prime mortgage lending.
What Male Democrats Think of Hillary Clinton versus Barack Obama
Men voted the same way in both states: a strong plurality of men backed Obama.
According to the Edison/Mitofsky entrance polls in Iowa, 35 percent of male caucus-goers supported Senator Obama, compared with 23 percent who backed Senator Clinton. In the New Hampshire primary,
Senator Obama carried the male vote by a similarly large 40 percent to 29 percent margin, despite his narrow defeat there.
From a Legalised Brothel in Nevada: Who Will The "Bunnies" Vote For?
Nevadans support legalized prostitution, forty-plus percent voted to legalize marijuana in 2006, high numbers identify themselves not as Republicans but as libertarians, and many rely on the gambling industry for their livelihoods. Anything goes.
Maureen Dowd Gets Emotional
When NYT reporters walked into their offices last night, people were clustering around one office to watch what they thought they would never see: Maureen Dowd with the unmistakable look of tears in her eyes. Was this, at last, the "humanized" Dowd?
American Idol: A Freak Show for the Masses
This year, the pre-season auditions force us to confront a question haunting society: Where is the line between deluded belief in one’s talent and actual mental illness? Or, sadder still, mental handicap? This is the fine line that the auditions walk.
Why I Like Hillary Clinton: There's No Reason, Just a Feeling
All of us make emotional, intuitive decisions about who we prefer, and then come up with post-hoc rationalizations to explain the choices that were already made beneath conscious awareness. ?People often act without knowing why they do what they do.?
Why Won't Politicians Talk about the Working Class?
Because the bourgeoisie vote may explain why politicians pander to the mushy middle but that shouldn't be confused with populism or appealing to the true majority. Close to half of all American households are bringing in less than $36K a year!
Obama Rattled: Starts Lunging at Hillary Clinton
For someone who is marching across Nevada and south Carolina calling working- and middle-class Americans to “get fired up” and “stand up” for democracy (and for him), Obama sure likes to spend a lot of time groveling before the white ruling elite.
Should Liberals Be Afraid of Republican Candidates?
In all the excitement over Obama v Clinton, the race for the Republican presidential candidacy has been overlooked. So who are the main contenders? How rightwing are they?
Black Dreams, White Liberals
Clinton is no doubt shocked that a simple argument about experience vs. inspiration becomes the basis for a charge of racial insensitivity.
She is surprised that the very use of "fairy tale" in reference to Obama's position on Iraq is taken as a sign of insensitivity, or that any reference to his self-confessed teenage drug use is immediately given racial overtones.
Southern Blacks Are Split on Clinton vs. Obama
For several weeks, race has dominated the Democratic contest, prompting a flurry of angry words between the Obama and Clinton camps.
That fight appears to have died down, but Southern black voters are still in knots over a contest that pits a woman they know well against a viable black candidate.
If any election can prove that Southern blacks are not a monolithic voting bloc, it is this one.
Bernanke’s Reassurance Fails to Halt Stock Plunge
On a day when stocks were pushed down another 3 percent, all major players in Washington agreed on the need for putting extra money into people’s hands quickly.