You are browsing the archives of National Politics.

For only the second time in these soon-to-be-over aughts, America had two different presidents in one week, giving the Interweb twice the fodder for more-or-less political list-making. Parsing through our online colleagues’ output for our weekly catch-up listicle Weekly Wednesdays, we came across a sampling of the most obscure policy points, tangential pop cultural tie-ins, [...]

Amid the flury of Obamaguration-related posts, we came across a terrific entry from Gawker detailing the small yet rich body of related craigslist postings by people hoping, very naturally, to combine political and sexual bliss. With all the revelers flocking to D.C. – some of whom are planning an Orgy for Obama apparently – it’s [...]

If we’re looking at movies that might influence today’s new U.S. President Barack Obama, it’s rather worrisome to note that his favorite movie is The Godfather. Hoping that Obama doesn’t turn out like Don Vito Corleone, those tireless film archivists at Future of Classic have parsed their DVD libraries for movie presidents whose onscreen behavior [...]