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This corner has developed a special interest in long-form political journalism, produced hard on the heels of major political...

Charles P. Pierce, a few months back, in Esquire . "We have not been a great country for a very long time, the cynic believes, and...

UPDATE: According to one commenter , delegates have had "this information" for "weeks. If that’s the case, I have to wonder why...

Our respective elections this year would appear to represent the first time since 1896 that voter turnout in the United States...

Fellow gallerybloggerytype David Akin lays out the latest gossip from the Hill berryvine on the race for the Speaker’s...

Norm Coleman over Al Franken by 344 votes . There’ll be a recount.

Oh, I know Mario Dumont is not at the top of his game or his popularity these days, loin de là , but he is a skilled critic and...

Politico: Obama won more support from white men than any Democrat since Jimmy Carter. Hertzberg: Go ahead and call him BHO. It...

It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who...

I’m over here , liveblogging the super-historic election returns with Coyne and Feschuk. Or I will be as soon as I can figure out...