presidential race

Michael Chabon on Obama: To support Obama, we must permit ourselves to feel hope, to acknowledge the possibility that we can aspire as a nation to be more than merely secure or predominant. We must allow ourselves to believe in Obama, not blindly or unquestioningly as we might believe in some demagogue or figurehead but […]

The Republican Jewish Coalition put out a hasty statement Friday slamming Barack Obama for a throwaway line in an interview with Paris Match in which he said that, as part of his Mideast efforts, he would convene a summit of Muslim leaders to “listen to their concerns.” (A semi-comprehensible Google translation available here.) That was […]