Barack Obama

And how McCain helped him do it

While we’re casting about for our own Obama, could we also find our own Nate Silver ?

Miscellaneous Canadian news On a weird, slow day in the world of punditry, that’s the best headline we can come up...

As a general rule, media ethics debates work best in journalism schools (where they can safely and entirely be discussed in...

Lawrence Martin goes ahead and makes the inevitable Ignatieff-Obama comparison . "Is there any hope out there, anyone capable of...

‘Round Ottawa Pundits take on the tanking economy, the woebegone Liberal party, and the tragedy of Canada’s portrait...

Anne Applebaum : "If some Americans walked away from their election-night party vowing to improve the world around them, maybe it...

Noah Richler : "If Canada is to experience its own extraordinary, galvanizing political progression, it will not be because it has...

Weekend roundup

A few weeks ago, the Star went ahead and declared Pinball Clemons a sort of Obama-in-waiting. Some degree of chuckling ensued. The...