No Straw Men

For reasons of financial necessity, personal preference and plain politics, John McCain is gearing up to run one of the least traditional presidential campaigns in recent history.

As advocacy groups bristle at online advertisers’ increasingly sophisticated targeting techniques, top privacy lawyers at Google and AOL on Thursday backed “opt-out” technology as a way to give Internet surfers more say in the process–although they admit

Dr Pepper is a Republican soda. Pepsi-Cola and Sprite are Democratic. So are most clear liquors, like gin and vodka, along with white wine and Evian water. Republicans skew toward brown liquors like bourbon or scotch, red wine and Fiji water. When it come

Here are some things you should know about Washington’s up-and-coming conservative speechwriters. They won’t have time to see you. Or talk to you on the phone. Or even email you, really, to let you know that they can’t talk to you on the phone and t

Everyone’s favorite web statistics whipping boy Alexa has announced a major overhaul of how it compiles traffic figures.

From millions of blogs about nothing, we’ve selected the 25 best about something—from politics and global affairs to shopping and sports. And, yes, we’ve got a few about nothing, too.

It’s Presidents day, two weeks before the Texas primary, and Adam Ukman has come to the small city of San Marcos to train precinct captains for Barack Obama.

In my senior year of high school, I began dating a boy named Chris* who I had been pretty close friends with throughout the years, and due to a strange mix of dares and—let’s face it—convenience, we ended up together.

One Tuesday morning in early May, Michael Arrington was sound asleep in his bedroom in Atherton, California, when three men burst in.

Some of the most bitter battles in Washington have been fought between the secretaries of State and Defense.

Expensive, but worthwhile.

Michael Calderone over at the Politico broke the news today that D.C.’s original foul-mouthed political blog, Wonkette, is leaving the Gawker media empire. Managing editor Ken Layne will personally take the helm of the newly independent Wonkette, as he co

I propose we stop saying “taxes” and start calling them “dues.”