Ted Van Dyk has been active in national policy and politics since 1961, serving in the White House and State Department and as policy director of several Democratic presidential campaigns. He is author of Heroes, Hacks and Fools and numerous essays in national publications. You can reach him in care of editor@crosscut.com.
Barack Obama won Saturday's Wyoming caucuses handily and should win Tuesday's Mississipi primary as well. Depending on which tally you believe, that will leave Obama somewhere between 110 and 125...
Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton left the Tuesday, Feb. 26, televised debate in Cleveland just about where they entered it: with Obama riding a double-digit lead over Clinton nationally among...
Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ended their televised Austin, Texas, debate last week on a high note. But, since then, their campaigns have been outrightly confrontational. The tone is likely...
Yesterday, Feb. 21, was quite a day in presidential campaigning. First, Arizona Sen. John McCain took on The New York Times head-on following front-page publication of a story implying that he had an...
Back from a cold and snowy week in Minnesota, still hustling my new book, Seattle seems downright tropical. My first act on return was to turn down my thermostat; it seemed unseasonably warm here.
