Hillary Rodham Clinton is a brilliant candidate.
It took this reporter one year, three months and two weeks from that first sun-splashed day on the upstate farm of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, where Mrs. Clinton launched her legendary “Listening Tour,” to come to that conclusion, but it crystallized on Saturday, Oct. 21, during her unremarkable Read More
Hillary, we hardly know ye.
“I think people know everything there is to know about me,” the confidence-flushed First Lady laughed on the afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 5. Mrs. Clinton was meeting reporters on the sidewalk outside the Love Fellowship Tabernacle in East New York, the fifth of seven African-American churches where she was slated Read More
I am three months away from giving birth for the first time, and already I am a bad, bad mother.
This is partly because I spend almost as much time gazing in shop windows at the thin clothes I’m going to wear one glorious postpartum day, as I do mooning over the gorgeous Read More
I am three months away from giving birth for the first time, and already I am a bad, bad mother.
This is partly because I spend almost as much time gazing in shop windows at the thin clothes I’m going to wear one glorious postpartum day, as I do mooning over the gorgeous little alien Read More
Don’t get me wrong. If I were Hillary Clinton, I’d run for President, too. I’d figure:
Everything real about the 2008 race is, as Donald Rumsfeld would say, unknowable at this point-but hey, my knowables are at least as good as anybody’s. I could raise a fortune, exactly $0 of which I’d have to spend Read More
Democrats of Manhattan, rise and shine! It’s been over a week now. The American people have spoken, and what they said was: They don’t want you. The vote is in, the map is more red than blue, that smirking jerk you love to hate is back for four more years. So now what?
Clearly, your Read More
Less than 60 seconds into his first two-minute answer at last Thursday night’s Presidential debate, the Democratic candidate made the single most important statement about Iraq in this campaign, and he made it with the clarity and brevity that so often eludes him.
“We’re now 90 percent of the casualties in Iraq,” said Senator John Read More
BAGHDAD-”I am a soldier in the Mehdi Army,” said Adnan Al-Safey, a round-faced, soft-spoken fellow of 40 who looked much less like a soldier than a merchant or a poet, which he also happened to be.
It was early June, and Mr. Al-Safey was early for an appointment at the headquarters of the radical Shiacleric Read More
BAGHDAD–The office was not hidden, but it was hard to find. It was across from the gold-domed shrine of Kadhim mosque in Kadhimiya, past the street vendors selling candy bars and Pepsi and blow-up toys and pistol-shaped lighters. Then a right-hand slice into the slow sea of pedestrians, and past several jewelry-store windows hung heavy Read More
BAGHDAD-”This is not a place for the military,” Hadel Adnan, 43, said, her copper eyes suddenly freezing, hard and solid. “This is not a place for the resistance. No American convoys patrol.”
Soon Hadel’s eyes will melt again, and freeze again, and keep on doing so all through a long conversation, like a pair of Read More
