For several years, New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer has examined facets of the Bush Administration’s war on terror in laser-like detail, from the CIA’s creation of secret “black site” prisons around the world, to its dramatic expansion of presidential powers.

Quicker than you can say ‘political has-been,’ Ron Paul, the onetime GOP presidential candidate, has moved from “Manifesto” to “Memoir.”

JibJab has news: “It’s Time for Some Campaign!” Borrowing the melody and the refrain of the Bob Dylan song, “The Times They are A Changin’,” JibJab has launched its first flash animation video of the non-primary, presidential season.

Muckety is shocked, shocked, to learn that a lobbyist is leading the effort to raise money to pay for the Democratic National Convention

Can an iconoclastic Republican billionaire do for the national debt what former Vice President Al Gore did for global warming?

The sweet scents of women’s cosmetics and the stench of politics are an unlikely blend. Yet few corporate boards are more politically active than that of Estee Lauder.

The same Phil Gramm who this week said the economy is not as bad as people think and that we’ve “become a nation of whiners” once tried to peddle so-called “death bonds” to the state of Texas and its teacher pension fund.

Thanks to a Facebook founding friend, Barack Obama now has well over one million Facebook supporters.

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild is one millionaire backer of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton who still hasn’t let go. For starters this week, she dissed the presumptive Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, on national TV.

After months of speaking on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Howard Wolfson, has joined the ranks of talking heads on Fox News. As many observers have noted, there was a time when Democrats ran from, not to, Fox News, but Wolfson says the network has changed.

John McCain rearranged his inner circle yesterday, putting political veteran Steve Schmidt in charge. Although Rick Davis will continue to hold the title of campaign manager, Schmidt will have near total control of day-to-day operations.

One of the odder developments of the 2008 presidential race is that a former conservative Republican who led the impeachment fight against former President Bill Clinton, is positioning himself to act as a Republican spoiler.

The balloons are a problem. Though billed as biodegradable, they’ve sat in a steaming compost heap in Denver with nary a sign of breaking down.

The richest man in the world is ramping up his involvement in the campaign to elect Barack Obama the next president.

The publisher that helped torpedo John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign with a book that elaborated on the Swift Boat attack ads against him plans to release a critical biography of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama this summer.