Since Slate first launched its Encyclopedia Baracktannica in February, more than 800 readers have written in with their own Obamaisms, from "Barack Ness Monster" to "Post-Baracalyptic." The best of ...

"If the economy's good for people from the bottom up, it's going to be good for everybody." Barack Obama's now famous conversation with "Joe the Plumber" made the Ohio-based small business owner ...

Via Ben Smith in Politico, I see that a new poll from the Telegraph in London shows Barack Obama trouncing John McCain among voters in five European countries. But lest TNR readers doubt the poll's ...

A procedural on the political manipulation of medium and message, George Clooney’s fourth directorial effort is bookended with scenes of media-op prepping. In the first, Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling), ...

I take David Greenberg's point that Obama's election wouldn't in itself do much to solve a number of the problems facing African Americans. I also concede that some white liberals are positively ...

WASHINGTON -- John McCain's prisoner-of-war experience is a strong selling point for him in this American election. But it is a powerful drag on his popularity in Europe, where past U.S. involvement ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Be careful what you wish for, media folks. All winter long, we've been hoping for a miracle to make the Democratic race more competitive. Something! Anything! We've been ...

JAKARTA (Reuters Life!) - At a thumb-numbing 5,472 pages, a book devoted to the life of Barack Obama is probably not going to be on the President's list of beach reads, but its Indonesian author is ...

Talk of the Nation listeners are still conflicted about whether soldiers diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder should be eligible for Purple Hearts. Also, one listener who traveled to ...

The use of technology like blogs, mass texting and online phone banks has been key to Sen. Barack Obama's surprise sweep of recent primaries. The Illinois senator's campaign has been making use of a ...

She and other political analysts thinks they have yet to prove themselves. Professors and students themselves also are noticing the quiet on college campuses, which were hotbeds for 'Obamamania' ...

Aleksandr Zarayev says Barack Obama's victory was in the stars. Speaking on the eve of the U.S. presidential election, the president of Russia's Astrological School predicted -- as did most public ...