Slate Magazine - Today's Blogs

Bloggers on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial.

Michael Weiss — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 18:05:18 EST

Bloggers respond to Khalid Sheik Mohammed's request to be killed, and to suggestions—made most plangently by Geraldine Ferraro—that Barack Obama absorb Hillary Clinton's campaign debt.

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Bloggers on the idea of Vice President Hillary Clinton.

Michael Weiss — Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:20:18 EST

Bloggers assess the merits of a possible Clinton vice presidency and the Bush administration's plan for a strategic alliance with Iraq.

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Bloggers on Obama's victory and Hillary's nonconcession.

Michael Weiss — Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:55:29 EST

Barack Obama earned enough delegates Tuesday—both pledged and super—to become the Democratic nominee for president. His speech announcing the fact offered gracious praise of his former opponent Hillary Clinton. Except that Clinton's not ready to be the "former" opponent it: She's still in it until further notice. On a media day that saw the first African-American major-party nominee, Clinton is omnipresent.

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Bloggers wonder when and how Hillary Clinton will formally drop out.

Michael Weiss — Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:04:26 EST

It's Obama: The day began with an Associated Press report that Hillary Clinton would concede that Barack Obama had enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination. Then the Clinton camp responded that rumors of its effective demise were greatly exaggerated. Campaign chair Terry McAuliffe rejected the AP story as "100 percent incorrect," citing Obama's failure to nab the requisite 2,118 delegates. Now comes another AP story, this one with a mathematical tally "based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private commitments," saying Obama's got it all wrapped up. Bloggers speculated throughout the day on the hows, rather than the whens, of Clinton's bow-out.

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Bloggers on the DNC's vote on Florida and Michigan.

Morgan Smith — Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:07:28 EST

Bloggers react to the DNC's Florida and Michigan decision, Vanity Fair's critical profile of Bill Clinton, and the fire at Universal Studios.

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