No Straw Men

In a sign that he wants to reach out to pro-life voters, Barack Obama has told a Christian magazine that he would be against overly broad exceptions to the prohibition on late-term abortions.

“Do you know what bought me all this?” he asked, waving his hand in the general direction of his prosperity. “Not my political ideas … First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience.”

We are not shocked when a candidate moves to the center for the general election. But Mr. Obama’s shifts are striking because he was the candidate who proposed to change the face of politics, the man of passionate convictions who did not play old politi

Dan Schnur, McCain’s former communications chief, said, “Besides his convention speech, the only time I would even put him behind a podium at all between now and the end of the campaign is when he’s announcing a policy position.”

If Google had really wanted to do something path-breaking about its day care crisis, it would have spent less time creating elitist day care centers and more time figuring out how to “scale” day care for everybody no matter what their salaries.

No mourning here.

His greatest weakness as a writer is his need to put himself at the center of attention, to win every argument, to walk away from every encounter having gotten the better of someone else. And yet the same impulse is essential to his

Has anyone ever won their celebrity divorce, if not in a courtroom, then at least in the court of public opinion?

Patrick Ruffini is one of the most Web-savvy people in politics.

When levels of violence were horrifyingly high, Bush and McCain said that things were going so badly that if we left, the consequences would be tragic. Today they say that things are going so well that if we leave, the consequences would be tragic.

Twitter may still fail and go the way of Friendster, but I still dig the elegance behind the initial model, and I hope its putative successor doesn’t lose sight of that.

In near darkness, one of the greatest tennis matches ever played concluded in the Wimbledon final Sunday with Roger Federer hitting a short forehand into the net and with a victorious Rafael Nadal flat on his back with camera flashes illuminating his drai