The New Republic

Over the past half century, parenthood has undergone a change so simple yet so profound we are only beginning to grasp the enormity of its implications. It is that we have our children much later than we used to. This has come to seem perfectly unremarkable; indeed, we take note of it only when celebrities push it to extremes—when Tony Randall has his first child at 77; Larry King, his fifth child by his seventh wife at 66; Elizabeth Edwards, her last child at 50. READ MORE >>

It seemed odd to leave Charlotte without saying hello to the one person I sorta know here. Even odder to contemplate how much different this convention, not to mention election, might have been if one former presidential and vice-presidential candidate hadn’t met her five years ago. READ MORE >>

As a card-carrying member of the Betrayed by John Edwards Alumni Association, I’ll admit that my initial response to his federal indictment for violating campaign laws was skepticism. Yes, Edwards was an egocentric, lying, baby-denying cad who betrayed his dying wife. I doubted, however, that he had committed a crime. READ MORE >>

You know, I think she has a point here: Christine O'Donnell on Tuesday compared the "tragedy" of extending unemployment benefits to Pearl Harbor and the death of Elizabeth Edwards.  READ MORE >>

Elizabeth Edwards lost her long battle with cancer on Tuesday morning. She became a celebrity because of her status as a political spouse. But she leveraged that celebrity in order to advance the causes in which she believed. And no cause was as important to her as health care reform. READ MORE >>

As readers may have discerned, if only from the Harry Reid "Negro Dialect" furor the big whoop in Washington during the last few days has revolved around Game Change, a 2008 campaign chronicle by DC press veterans John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. READ MORE >>

Sunday's New York Times piece on John Edwards is fun reading, and includes some juicy details about the lengths to which Edwards' financial backers went to keep their candidate in the clear. Two other things were worth noting. First: READ MORE >>

. . . to the husband of a furniture-store owner. I'm not quite sure why, but this local TV news report on the opening of Elizabeth Edwards's new furniture store in Chapel Hill left me very depressed. READ MORE >>

In her interview with Larry King last night, Elizabeth Edwards had this to say about the National Enquirer, which, of course, broke the story of her husband's affaire with Rielle Hunter: KING: All right. When the story first appeared -- talking about "Resilience," when the story first appeared in the tabloids, a friend had to mention it to you, did you see this in the Enquirer? EDWARDS: Yes. KING: What did you say? READ MORE >>

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