I'm not sure what was more nerve wracking last night, the debate between Obama and Romney, or Andrew Sullivan's mental state. Having taken the first debate rather badly, Sullivan had been close to the edge, writing off Obama's chance at re-election and readying himself for the ...read more

This was Andrew Sullivan's reaction to the bad poll numbers that came in yesterday: Sullivan is a self confessed drama queen, but this really is taking it too far. He writes: Look: I'm trying to rally some morale, but I've never seen a candidate this late in the game, so far ...read more

Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast encapsulates what most on the left have been thinking over the past two weeks: What a fantastic last two weeks these have been. I don’t even mean Barack Obama solidifying his lead over Mitt Romney, although that’s perfectly fine. No, I mean the ...read more

By Ben Cohen: The fallout from the bitter recall election in Wisconsin is reverberating around political circles and the media. The Right is claiming victory in an election that they believe should never have happened, and the Left is busy licking its wounds and crying foul ...read more

In an article on The Daily Beast that is well worth reading, Andrew Sullivan takes apart myths perpertuated by the Right (and Left) about President Obama. Here he is on Obama's fiscal policy: In retrospect, they [the decisions made after the economic crash] were far more ...read more

French philosopher and serial rapist defender Bernard-Henri Levy has made a career out of pretending to be smarter than everyone else. His writing (at least his english language work) is a mixture of pompous moral posturing, pretentious word play and unbelievably bad sentence ...read more