PostPartisan Archive: Cohen

Finally, an Inaugural Address

It came a bit late, but Barack Obama finally gave his inaugural address. It was sweeping, and it was grand. It was uplifting, and it was profound. It sang, as Walt Whitman did, of a glorious country. The president...

Leaders Out to Lunch

Congress, having done nothing, is on its way home. The president, doing nothing, remains in the White House. The president-elect, having appointed a secretary of health and human services but no one to lead Treasury, remains mostly out of...

The Final Debate: McCain's Last Stand

John McCain, movie buff extraordinaire, will instantly appreciate my metaphor: He’s a palooka on the way down. He’s the guy, from countless movies of the 1940s and 1950s, who’s been a prize fighter for too long, whose gifts have...

Seeing Is Experiencing, But Better

Okay, so I didn’t exactly go into Eye-rack in a technical sense, but I got close and I saw it and that ought to count for something. This is how I know about Russia, and it prepares me for...

The GOP Takes Hostages

Where’s the pride? I ask that of every Republican who in recent days has done the bidding of the McCain campaign and lied about what Barack Obama said regarding that now famous pig and lipstick. First off the mark...

A Private Matter

On the MSNBC program “Morning Joe,” one of the Andrea Mitchell triplets -- one works the morning shift, one the afternoon and the other the night -- sternly cautioned me and other media types that the pregnancy of 17-year-old...

Older Entries in This Category »

Where's the Music?, Marisa Katz , August 29, 2008

Biden's Window Onto America, Our Window Into Biden , Marisa Katz , August 28, 2008

When You Can't Say Something Nice, Marisa Katz , August 27, 2008

Michelle Obama's Sad Transformation, Marisa Katz , August 26, 2008

Obama's Organ Transplant, Marisa Katz , August 25, 2008