PHILADELPHIA — In many ways, Barack Obama’s speech on race was momentous and edifying.
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Paul Krugman: Deliverance Or Diversion?
After their victory in the 2006 congressional elections, it seemed a given that Democrats would try to make this year’s presidential campaign another referendum on Republican policies.
David Brooks: Diagnosing Obama Comedown Syndrome
At first it seemed like a few random cases of lassitude among Mary Chapin Carpenter devotees in Berkeley, Cambridge and Chapel Hill. But then psychotherapists began to realize patients across the country were complaining of the same distress. They were experiencing the first hints of what’s bound to be a […]
Maureen Dowd: To Catch a Theif
WASHINGTON — Lenny and Squiggy were nowhere in sight.
Anything But Straight: Obama’s Tightrope Act
A few months ago, my organization TuthWinsOut.org caused a national uproar after we criticized Barack Obama for embracing “ex-gay” singer Donnie McClurkin. The Christian crooner was part of Obama’s gospel tour of South Carolina, which was an attempt to lure African American voters away from the Clinton campaign.
