Ask Not What Arlen Specter Can Do for Sonia Sotomayor

In the fall of 1991, the political right was gunning for Arlen Specter. Four years earlier, he’d infuriated them by lending a critical assist to the successful campaign to kill Robert Bork’s Supreme Court nomination and he’d done little in the intervening time to make peace with them. Now, with Specter facing reelection Read More

Ask Not What Arlen Specter Can Do for Sonia Sotomayor

In the fall of 1991, the political right was gunning for Arlen Specter. Four years earlier, he’d infuriated them by lending a critical assist to the successful campaign to kill Robert Bork’s Supreme Court nomination and he’d done little in the intervening time to make peace with them. Now, with Specter facing re-election in 1992, Read More

The Scary, Phony Warnings of Newt Gingrich

Whenever he reaches into his bag of tricks, Newt Gingrich seems to pull out the same old attention-grabbing ploy: a dire warning about an impending third-party movement.

His pronouncements always assume the same basic form: Person or Group X must do as I say, or the traditional two-party structure will collapse.  Headlines in major publications Read More

Chris Wallace to Interview Obama on Fox News Sunday

"I think it’ll be the kind of interview we do on Fox News Sunday: tough, probing but fair," said Chris Wallace.

Mr. Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday, was speaking to Media Mob on Thursday afternoon, about having just landed a major interview that had long eluded him: a one-on-one sit-down with Senator Barack Read More