By Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith
I once held a position of public trust. I write today as a felon, having broken that trust, and I don’t want anyone to make the terrible mistakes I made.
I thought I could get away with it.…
In his blog, The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic had a short post today that is a sort of call to action for the progressives who are sitting out the debate right now. (Health care? Cap and trade? Employee Free…
Sonia Sotomayor and family members listen to Judiciary Committee hearings.
The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, began this morning with a respectful tone though some lectured her about the concept of judicial…
Soon-to-be-former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin has announced that she will resign as governor of Alaska this month.
In a news conference from her home in Wasilla, Alaska, Palin announced Friday that she would resign later this month. The state’s lieutenant…
Boxes of documents are wheeled into the Post-Dispatch
In 1993, former Attorney General William Webster pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally using state workers and state computers in a political campaign. He was disbarred and served nearly 21 months in…
William Hogarth: The Election I: An election entertainment (1754)
As near as we can tell, the 2008 presidential election first was referenced in the Post-Dispatch on Sept. 23, 2003, when then-New York Times columnist William Safire threw out the first name:…
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“All politics is local” _ an oft-quoted phrase from former U.S. House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O. Neill Jr.
That truism has been obscured in the months of infighting for the U.S. presidency and now the incessant bombardment of statewide and local…
With the meltdown of the American financial system dominating news reports, another long-running crisis continues unchecked, squeezing American businesses and workers as never before.
Last week, the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation reported that family health insurance coverage provided by an employer now…
On the evening of Nov. 2, 2004, when it became apparent that Republican Matt Blunt had defeated Democrat Claire McCaskill in the race for Missouri governor, Jeremiah W. “Jay” Nixon began laying claim to the Democratic nomination for governor in 2008.
He…
Christian writers Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw are touring the country in support of their book, “Jesus for President.” CNN calls them “spiritual rabble-rousers.” Publisher’s Weekly, in a starred review, calls the book a “must-read election-year book for Christian Americans.”
The…
Does our genetic makeup determine the way we vote? Is there something in our DNA that can explain our political opinions?
This notion — referred to in some circles as “biopolitics” — has long been scoffed at by the political science…
