PARDONS
Some high-profile convicts are hoping for presidential pardons.
 
 
 
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Will It Ever End?

It could. A plan for Mideast peace.


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LIVING POLITICS
A Bumpy Start
TERROR WATCH
Next Time, Call First
BETWEEN THE LINES
Don't Muffle the Call to Serve
CAPITOL LETTER
Choosing A Church
THE WORLD FROM WASHINGTON
A Chanukah Miracle?
 
 
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Can't get enough news about Campaign '08? Then check out Campaign Tracker for all the latest. Now available for Windows Mobile phones.

 
 
GALLERY
An audio tour of some rare, odd and even vicious mementos from presidential campaigns past
 



RELIGION

The left can breathe easy. Rick Warren is not Obama's Billy Graham.

MILITARY

On gays, Obama's Joint Chiefs chair is caught between his boss and a conservative military.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

The man appointed to fill Obama's Senate seat ignored a warning about a troubling case that almost allowed an innocent man to be executed.

LAST WORDS

It's still a mystery how or why Bush made the key decisions of his administration.

ENERGY

Overshadowed by the economic headlines, serious climate trouble looms ahead.

AMERICA AND ITS IMAGE

Recognizing that America can't go it alone is the best way to boost the country's standing.

PEOPLE TO WATCH

Cast Out of Washington, Republicans Rethink

THE GLOBAL ELITE

At No. 30 and 31, David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett will carry new weight in the White House.

THE GLOBAL ELITE

Under Obama, there will be a new elite in Washington. Some of its members:

THE GLOBAL ELITE

Obama means to control Washington. His chief of staff will be at the wheel.

THE GLOBAL ELITE

The Democratic leader will be key to passing her new president's agenda.

THE GLOBAL ELITE

America's most able general is forging a new approach to the Muslim world.

THE GLOBAL ELITE

Obama's Treasury secretary will help define the new global financial system.

THE GLOBAL ELITE

At No. 13 and 14, the most powerful couple in politics may find the times suited to their skills.

THE GLOBAL ELITE

The new U.S. president will be judged by whether he can save capitalism.

COVER STORY: THE GLOBAL ELITE

The study of power is not only diverting (which Homer and Shakespeare knew), but illuminating. A biography of an ancient human impulse.

POLITICS

Is the firestorm over Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation warranted? Two gay writers debate.

POLITICS

How the power behind Blagojevich turned on him

 
Newsweek Exclusive

This is a seven-part in-depth look behind the scenes of the campaign, consisting of exclusive reporting from the McCain and Obama camps assembled by a special team of journalists who were granted year-long access on the condition that none of their findings appear until after Election Day.

 
 
THE EMPLOYMENT OFFICE
How do you feel about Bush's job prospects upon leaving the White House? And, what should his shadowy second-in-command, Dick Cheney, do next?   Time to find these two men new jobs!  Click here for the details.
 
 
January 7, 1789
America holds its first presidential election. The only citizens allowed to vote at the time were white men who owned property. That aspect of the system has changed, but other key elements remain constant; voters in the first presidential balloting participated in the same Electoral College system used to pick presidents today. Tallying the votes from the first election proved to be a difficult task because the weather was unusually frigid and snowy. Many members could not reach New York, the temporary center of government, to officially count the electoral ballots. Finally in April, George Washington won and was notified. He traveled to New York to be sworn into office.
 
 
Video
NEWSWEEK editor Jon Meacham sits down with Laura Bush and Cindy McCain.
 
The Peek
 
 
MEDIA

Just a year after buying The Wall Street Journal, the press rapscallion has revitalized the fusty paper.

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