Michael Tomasky

The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords may lead to the temporary hibernation of right-wing rage, but it is encoded in conservative DNA.

Republicans will be out to sabotage the Healthcare Bill while Obama tries to heal the bipartisan rift.

He spent a year trying to do things co-operatively. Now he must take more charge and not let Congress call the shots.

Ted Kennedy left his imprint on more legislation than any other senator. His death marks the end of an era in United Statespolitics.

The conservatives who now dominate the party of the American right may come to rue losing their moderate wing.

Well, it’s already happened. Barely two weeks into the job and President Barack Obama has compromised fundamental principles.

Everybody’s nervous as hell in these tough times, so the president-elect is banking on us letting him get on and fix things.

In at least one obvious way, 2008 was a pretty good year in my country. We made history in electing an African-American president.

Of all the charges hurled at liberalism in America since the 1970s, few have proven as potent as the allegation of ”liberal hypocrisy”.

”I wish you would make up your mind, Mr Dickens. Was it the best of times or was it the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both.”

There is an ugliness and menace voiced at John McCain’s rallies that he doesn’t just tolerate but encourages, writes Michael Tomasky.

Republicans have race-baited in one form or other in most of our presidential contests since Richard Nixon’s time.

The financial crisis ended the Palin circus but the Democratic presidential candidate must buck up his ideas to exploit McCain’s weak point.

So, bloodied and at least partially bowed, Barack Obama is finally the putative Democratic nominee.

So, round one of the 2008 foreign policy debate goes to … Barack Obama? Improbable as it seems, in the first direct rhetorical showdown of the general election campaign — over a…

The Democratic presidential hopeful showed some steel this week in decisively breaking with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Well, he couldn’t have been much clearer than…

The maths is still the maths. But after Hillary Clinton’s substantial win over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, the maths is now competing with the mo — that is, momentum. Even…

Of all the ways to describe last Tuesday night as a bad night for Hillary Clinton, perhaps the most dramatic is to point out this: the pundits on CNN and MSNBC started comparing…

There is gleeful laughter coming from Michigan in the wake of Mitt Romney’s victory in that state’s primary — some of it emanating from the Romney camp. The win was crucial for…

I have interviewed Hillary Clinton a handful of times since our initial meeting in 2000, during her first Senate race, when I must have seen her give 50 to 100 speeches en route…