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A CRITIC'S EYE
Redeem Team
Bill Clinton and company had something to prove
Bill Clinton and company had something...
Khue Bui for Newsweek
August 28, 2008
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DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
What Women Want
Team Obama has new plans for appealing to Hillary voters
Team Obama has new plans for...
Jeff Chiu / AP
August 27, 2008
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LISTENING IN
Hillary's Revenge?
Presidential speechwriters debate her big moment
Presidential speechwriters debate her big...
Stephan Savoia / AP
August 27, 2008
LIVING POLITICS
A Day for the History Books
Barack Obama's nomination is the social equivalent of landing a man on the moon.
Report From the Front
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THE REPUBLICANS
NEWSWEEK's Karen Breslau shares a personal moment with the Alaska governor.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Obama delivered when his fellow Democrats didn't.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
Rebutting Sean Wilentz on Obama.
DENVER CONVENTION
Suspects discussed assassination 'because Obama is black,' documents say
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Clinton gave the best speech she's capable of delivering. And finally, the Democrats looked like they know how to throw a party.
Are Obama and Pelosi dodging the life-and-death question?
LISTENING IN
Two former presidential speechwriters critique the convention oratory.
CONVENTION 2008
Multiple agencies on high alert for Denver convention.
Police investigate a gun and drug case. Was a plan to assassinate Obama involved?
POLITICS
He's been called hip, sexy and likened to a rock star. But the key to Obama's mystique is his earnest geekiness and sobriety.
Multiple agencies on high alert for Denver convention.
LISTENING IN
Two former presidential speechwriters critique the convention oratory.
INTERVIEW
Obama's mom was an idealist, his stepdad a hardheaded realist, his father a myth. How all this shaped him.
CAMPAIGN 2008
VP candidate Joe Biden's foreign-policy experience is helpful, but what's more important is his scrappy instincts and ability to connect with Hillary Clinton's supporters.
THE BIG IDEA
Obama's defeat would say that when handed a perfect opportunity to put the worst part of our history behind us, we chose not to.
ALASKA
POLITICS
To win, Obama must convince the country that he is a man of substance, not just style. History suggests this won't be easy.
GUNS
CAMPAIGN 2008
The 2004 Democratic nominee's daughter relives the ride.
TELEVISION
Helen Thomas, who has covered every sitting president since JFK, on the present—and future—direction of journalism
FIRST PERSON
A seeker and a New Age spiritualist, John Edwards's other woman believed she could help him make history.
POLITICS
CAMPAIGN 2008
The conservative author of a new book about Obama's faith discusses why the candidate could appeal to evangelicals.
Carla Bruni is just the kind of political spouse Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain are trying not to be.
HISTORY
The South tends to exemplify, if sometimes in an exaggerated way, much of what the nation thinks and feels.
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Blogging '08
The Ruckus: NEWSWEEK's guest bloggers weigh in on the fierce primary battle. In partnership with the Media Bloggers Association.
FACTCHECK.ORG
McCain ad cherry-picks Obama remarks on Iran, twisting his meaning.
August 28, 1968
He's endured the unendurable, and survived. Inside the mind and heart of John McCain.
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