At the News Xchange international broadcast conference in Valencia before Thanksgiving, I talked with Salim Amin, a Kenyan and the founder of A24 Media, Africa's first online agency for video and photography. We spoke at length about the continent, which Salim has covered widely as a journalist, about Africans' expectations...

The italicization is the last line of W.S. Merwin's poem "History," which is much about autumn and endings, about consciousness and its place in the universe, about the turnings of history and the inadequacy of language to capture them. And yet the first line, Only I never came back, perfectly...

"This hangar, or one of these along here -- that's where they brought the alien bodies," says John Pierce, a reporter for KBIM radio in Roswell, New Mexico. We're whiling away the hours at Great Southwest Aviation, waiting for Palin, and John has been talking about the latest coup for...

"Pray -- Fast --Vote." So Brady Boyd tells his flock at New Life Church in Colorado Springs the Sunday before voter registration closes in the Centennial State. "Be a good citizen," Pastor Boyd admonishes. "If you don't vote, you're worse than a puppy kicker." Volunteers are waiting in the church...

A Saturday morning encounter with some anti-Palineers enlivened my trek up and down the Front Range in search of the Colorado election story. Sarah Palin herself was speaking at a breakfast fundraiser in a jet hangar at the old Centennial Airport, just south of Denver. Perhaps because...

"Without votes in El Paso County, Obama won't win Colorado," says Michael Merrifield, the county representative to the Colorado General Assembly. He is speaking to the small band of Obama volunteers gathered in CJ's Bar & Grill to watch the second presidential debate. Everybody knows what Merrifield means, for they...

A bloodcurdling roar rises from the throng of women, as if they were a herd of elephants scenting Democratic lion in the bush, when one of their number stands to ask Senator John McCain, "When are you going to take the gloves off?" It's been a good town hall meeting...

ESPANOLA, N.M. -- Following canvassers Mary and Ellen out the door of the Obama field office here on a bright Sunday morning, I'm already full of wry reservation. The office has brought together about thirty people to go door to door, many of the volunteers from Santa Fe. But I...

It's Indian summer and New Mexico highway 448 is punctuated with campaign signs for McCain and Udall. This anomaly -- for John McCain is the Republican nominee for President and Tom Udall the Democratic nominee for the open Senate seat in New Mexico -- makes perfect sense along this narrow...

LEBANON, Ohio -- If a day can be a year in politics, then Friday, August 29, when John McCain introduced his running mate in Dayton, is one such. The following Wednesday, when Sarah Palin delivered her wowzer of an acceptance speech in St. Paul, is another. It hasn't been a...

The Democratic Party celebration at INVESCO field was only a week ago tonight, but it seems like a season past. It was supposed to be a hard act for the Republicans to follow. Barack Obama was supposed to get a Mile-High bounce from Denver. Bush and Cheney were going to...

ST PAUL -- Warning that reading this piece is going to be like watching an episode of Generation Kill. You know the outcome -- in this instance, that Sarah Palin nails the speech at the Republican Convention that introduces her to the country -- even as the story unfolds.

Twelve...

St PAUL -- They're tough as boot leather, these Republican women come to the Twin Cities -- even the ones who wear Chanel flats and pearls. And they're hoppin' mad -- to use Texas delegation talk -- about what they see as attacks from the "left-wing" blogosphere and The New...

ST. PAUL -- The hurricane has been downgraded -- and I'm not talking about Gustav but the Republicans' love affair with Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, their party's presumptive vice presidential nominee. Unalloyed elation didn't last the holiday weekend. Friday in Dayton and Sunday in Minneapolis, Republicans were telling me, again...

"There was nobody I wanted to vote for -- but now I'm so ecstatic," crowed Vickie, a forty-five year-old who works at the Southwest Ohio Development Center. Vickie's enthusiasm for Sarah Palin, the presumptive Republican vice-presidential nominee, is the predominant mood among the women at the Dayton rally where Friday...

DAYTON, Ohio, 28 August 2008 -- Barack Obama likes to go to the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the night, when no one else is around and it's quiet; he sits there and thinks. Over the past year on the campaign trail, the Senator, now the Democratic Party nominee...

Hillary Tuesday, Wherein Denver becomes a Beltway Hollywood outpost.

Biden in the Hen House; Emily's List Tea For Hillary, Pelosi not so much; Media Elites munch on fatuousness and some pretty Good Salmon; Midday at the Oasis.

Michelle and Early Joe:

Tuesday morning early in Denver Michelle Obama...

DENVER -- Speaking at a luncheon hosted by the Denver Press Club at the Denver Athletic Club today, former California state legislator and '60s political activist Tom Hayden predicted that Barack Obama will lose the 2008 Election. "An African-American candidate talking about economics and a white war hero -- it's...

DENVER -- It's 4 PM in the Convention Center, and I've been churched, well churched, sitting through the first official event of the 2008 Democratic Convention, the two-hour "interfaith gathering." A lot of Democrats have passed on the opening event, for the Wells Fargo Theater in the center is only...

DENVER, Saturday, at the Press Tilt-A-Whirl -- Think of my reporting from Denver as an extra layer of froth on your daily latte, because much of the action here is just fun. Take the Saturday night party, hosted by the city of Denver and underwritten by Qwest, for 15,000 of...