He’s writing a policy column for Slate.

I recently floated the notion of Paterson appointing Spitzer to the Senate, which mostly got me mocked in New York.

But I’m honestly not sure his rehabilitation can be purely intellectual like this. …

Steve Clemons posts an anonymous diary on the angst of waiting for a call from the transition, addressed to fellow sufferers:

Like you, I keep a secret "A list" of positions I would kill for, including all manner of ambassador …

Obama has postponed the repeal of the Bush tax cuts, and now he’s backed off his plan for a windfall profits tax — on the grounds, evidently, that low gas prices may mean the oil companies aren’t making windfall profits.

Depending …

The floating of the name of former Rep. James Ramstad as Obama’s drug czar has drawn some fire in liberal drug policy circles, and today a black police organization writes Obama opposing it:

In his twenty-eight years in the U.S. …

John McCain won every county in only one state: Oklahoma.

The state GOP celebrates with its Christmas Card.

Challenged about the lack of a Latino in one of the prime cabinet jobs, Obama defends the honor of the Commerce position being given Richardson (who delivered part of his remarks in Spanish), and offers a riff on a White …

A sketchy, but recognizable, Axelrod, peering out from behind the door.

I’m not sure this is exactly what Joe Klein was talking about in his condemnation of the political consulting industry, Politics Lost, but it’s certainly part of the new secretary of commerce’s charm:

After the campaign, I grew a …

A fascinating story in the Times of London, which Obama appears not to have known about when he wrote Dreams for my Father, about his grandfather’s torture at the hands of the British colonial power:

Hussein Onyango Obama, Mr Obama’s …

Those mysterious, Obama-esque images of Nicolas Sarkozy popping up around Paris have been explained: It’s a Greenpeace campaign.

The latest, which come in the form of giant posters in the Metro, call for the reduction of greenhouse gasses by …