John McCain’s sudden 360 180 (sorry, rushed) on the Law of the Sea Convention has come up before here. Despite ten years of energetic support for U.S. accession to the Convention, things changed last October without any explanation. McCain attempted to justify this on principle, though it fell transparently flat.
Streaming live video by Ustream One of the nation’s leading progressive economists, James K. Galbraith, will be speaking today about his new book, The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too, at the New America Foundation from 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm EST.
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood is one of the most positive but emotionally destabilizing and unusual personal memoirs I have read in many years.
Faith Smith is a Research Associate at the New America Foundation. Yesterday a top Iranian diplomat announced that Iran would stop enriching uranium if it was guaranteed a regular supply for their power stations.
Spin room chatter last night was rather predictable.
Really interesting debate. I had a lot of thoughts, which I’ve got logged below. But Joe Biden showed what a steady, thoughtful, capable pro he is. And while Palin didn’t have any of the disasters she has had in her recent interviews, she came off as an impressive amateur.
Gwen Ifill starts. The candidates are all smiles and first names. . . First question to Joe Biden.
TWN contributor Brian Till may be ‘on the ground in St. Louis‘, but I’m at a bar in Vienna, Austria — and am planning to stay up until 3 am here (I know. . .the 3 am call. . .
Washington University has had a tremendous run of luck landing political debates. It played host in ’92, ’00, ’04, and is welcoming Governor Palin and Senator Biden here tonight. It’d be great if some sleuthing undergrad managed to figure out how.
A loyal TWN reader just caught this clip on MSNBC’s “Race for the White House with David Gregory,” The clip is with former Bush Administration Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill.