Education Week looks into the Annenberg Challenge.

Christopher Buckley stands athwart McCain.

Those 100 economists number up to 90.

Norm Coleman cuts against the national grain and says he will cease with negative ads.

Retiring Republican Rep. Ray Lahood …

The McCain-Palin rally scheduled for Monday in Richmond is being moved from a small basketball arena there to the Richmond International Raceway on the Virginia state fairgrounds.

This is the third time in a week campaign officials have had to …

An unreleased ad airing in Ohio features Biden defending Obama against a third-party ad that invokes Ayers and Wright, saying such people "won’t work in our White House."

The close is classic Biden, aimed at reassuring those white …

An ad running in Pittsburgh by a third party group claims Barack Obama voted as a state senator to give early release to sexual abusers.

The spot is being paid for by a newly-incorporated outfit, The Committee for Truth …

My colleague Michael Calderone has a story up about the Times decision to publish a front-page piece Satuday about Bill Ayers.  

In it, Times editor Bill Keller offers a curious explanation for why they decided to go with …

John McCain is trying to run two campaigns at once.   

And for good reason. 

On the one hand he has no choice but to respond to the economic crisis gripping the world.   Since the bailout was signed …

Ben Smith:

McCain didn’t talk about the stock market yesterday, and didn’t put out a statement on it, while Obama did both, and McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was asked about that on a conference call (about Acorn!) this afternoon. …

The savvy Scott Helman has a smart piece in today’s Globe:

With the economy in crisis and Election Day in sight, Obama can’t say enough about the Clinton epoch - the job growth, the budget surpluses, the broad prosperity - …

He’s still not bringing it up on his own accord.

Today’s prepared remarks for the GOP nominee’s Wisconsin rally confine the Obama hits to the same, issue-based turf: Fannie and Freddie, taxes, spending and health care.

Ben Smith makes a good point in his immigration piece — it really is the dog that didn’t bark.

One wonders what would have happened if the GOP had nominated somebody more willing to exploit the issue.   As …