Had Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., just said the following words last week in his speech on race in America, his problems with his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, would probably now be over....

Doesn't Obama get it? ...

Here is my piece on the Bear Stearns debacle that aired on NPR's All Things Considered....

Senator McCain is calling for a meeting of the nation's top mortgage lenders as part of a solution to the rise in home foreclosures, saying the bankers should look to the example of General Motors, which offered 0% financing on new cars after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001....

John McCain returns to the Bay Area today for the first time as the GOP's presumptive nominee to tap wealthy Republicans who mostly ignored his pleas for money before he orchestrated his campaign comeback.

Mark is right to call attention to the "new international institutions" that John McCain alluded to in his speech today....

"Remember Friday, March, 14 2008: it was the day the dream of global free-market capitalism died," says the Financial Times' Martin Wolf....