The Manhattan connection

By Aaron Mehta and Aaron Mehta

Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain visited Yankee Stadium over the weekend with former rival Rudy Giuliani. Aside from likely hurtin

Top spy job is no plum

By Peter Newbatt Smith

President-Elect Barack Obama has been slow to name his choice for the government’s top intelligence job, director of national intelligence.

F is for Friday and financial disclosure

By Sarah Laskow

The McCain campaign posted Sarah Palin’s financial disclosure form and her tax returns from 2006 and 2007 this afternoon. The Palins paid $2
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Party machines, lobbyists and special interests: Part one

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2000 — It is no surprise and nothing new in the land of the spin and the home of the sound bite that each and every can

Belying his rhetoric, McCain worked for megamerger sought by campaign patron AT&T

By Nathaniel Heller and Annys Shin

WASHINGTON, December 7, 1999 — Republican Senator John McCain, outspoken advocate of campaign-finance reform, has built his presidential can

Excerpts from this story referencing "Federal Communications Commission":

"… d on April 26 that it intended to purchase MediaOne for about $60 billion, Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard said his agency would give the deal “very c …"

Commentary: How Bush handles McCain will set tone for his presidency

By Charles Lewis

WASHINGTON, January 23, 2001 — Now that George W. Bush has been duly sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States, he immediately fac
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Commentary: The broken campaign finance system: An American political tradition

By Bill Buzenberg

When Mark Hanna stepped in as a fundraiser for William McKinley’s 1896 reelection campaign, he took the unprecedented, if notorious, approac

Mixing oil and politics is formula for Newt’s “solutions”

By Marianne Lavelle

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich isn’t running for president this year, but due to a gusher of support for his campaign to promote opening

Dirty politics

By Stephanie Mencimer

When it comes to presidential elections, all politics is dirty. As Susan Estrich, Michael Dukakis’s campaign manager in 1988, says, “He who

Secretaries of state drawing political fire

By Sarah Laskow

Election Day is creeping closer, which means we’re due for some fights over voter rolls in battleground states. And right on schedule: Terri

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