Sen. Barack Obama has delivered at least four major addresses on the economy in the course of his presidential candidacy. Yet even his advisers conceded that voters might not have noticed until he spoke here on Tuesday as turmoil rippled through the financial markets. ...more

September 17, 2008

Rachel Lerman is the embodiment of melting-pot citizenry: Born in 1967 in Boston to a blonde, blue-eyed, Roman Catholic white woman and a black man from Nigeria, she was placed in foster care and shortly thereafter adopted by a white couple and raised Jewish. ...more

June 20, 2008

Tony D'Andrea of Dunedin says Hillary Clinton has betrayed her daughter and all women. ...more

January 29, 2008

When John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960, many Americans had serious reservations about electing a Roman Catholic to the presidency. ...more

December 14, 2007

Mitt Romney asked the nation on Thursday not to reject his presidential candidacy because of his religion, assuring evangelical Christians and other religious voters that his values matched theirs in a speech that used the word "Mormon" only once. ...more

December 7, 2007

Republican Rudy Giuliani distanced himself Friday from anti-gun positions he took when he was a moderate mayor of New York, and asked the National Rifle Association to support his presidential candidacy. ...more

September 22, 2007