What to Watch For in Tonight’s Debate: A More Forceful Obama

Before Barack Obama and Mitt Romney debated in Denver, some very smart political scientists tried to dampen the overheated expectations game with a dose of...

Police Locate Remains of 10-Year-Old Jessica Ridgeway

Police have positively identified the body of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway near her Westminster, Col., home one week after she went missing. Her body was found...

Goodbye, Mr. Scissorhands: Romney Recaptures Centrist Image

Mitt Romney won more than just a debate in Denver; he won an opportunity to take the presidency away from Barack Obama. If he plays his cards right, he can...

American Democracy and Some of Its Unique Discontents

TIME closed out day one of Chicago Ideas Week by hosting “Democracy–State Of Our Union,” a 90-minute panel discussion about presidential bromances, the...

What History Tells Us About Obama’s Chances Now

Even Richard Nixon‘s mother thought he was sick. After the first televised presidential debate in American history on Monday, Sept. 26, 1960 — a contest in which...

Debate Prep By Mark Halperin

If Mitt Romney is to mount a robust comeback, he'll need a strong series of debate performances, starting Wednesday in Denver...He's spent a lot of time sparring...

Dogs Getting High: Colorado Vets See Spike Since Marijuana Legalization

File under the strangest of unintended consequences. As states throughout the U.S. have slowly moved toward relaxing their marijuana laws, there has been a...

Liveblogging the First Presidential Debate

TIME’s politics team brings you up-to-the-minute Twitter commentary and coverage throughout the Denver debate.

Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama: Whose “Gangnam Style” Parody Video Is Better?

For the first time in the 2012 election, America will get to see its two Presidential candidates face off in a live debate. Before a live studio audience at the...

WATCH: Reporter Makes Kid Cry on Live Television

'Drew the Farm Kid' goes ballistic at KDVR's Dan Daru.

Obama’s Challenge: Defining “Forward” As More Than Just a Slogan

The President's convention speech is his one real chance to tell the American people what they are voting for, not just what they are voting against. And the...

The Art of Political Stagecraft

What is a stage built on? What’s behind it? What’s it built with? Stage design at national political conventions can set the tone for a candidate. In Denver in...

Accused Theater Shooter’s Psychiatrist Warned Colleagues of Possible Danger

The university psychiatrist who was examining accused movie theater shooter James Holmes found his behavior so erratic that she brought it to the attention of a...

Wounded Aurora Victim Who Lost 6-Year-Old Daughter Suffers Miscarriage

Ashley Moser, the mother of the youngest victim killed in the Dark Knight Rises movie theater shooting, has lost her unborn child in a miscarriage as a result of...

Portrait of a Suburb: Aurora Gets on the Map -- But Not the Way It Wanted

Aurora has always been a town with a chip on its shoulder -- something I say with love because it's my hometown. It's the biggest suburb in Colorado, but the...

Eyewitness Accounts of the Aurora ‘Batman’ Shooting

A midnight showing of the new film The Dark Knight Rises became a bloody massacre at a theater in suburban Denver early this morning. According to eyewitness...

Alleged Colorado Movie Theater Shooter Makes First Court Appearance

James Eagan Holmes, who is being held in a Colorado jail after allegedly fatally shooting 12 and wounding 58 others in a suburban Denver movie theater made his...

“We Sure As Hell Are Angry”: Bomb Squad Diffuses Holmes’ Apartment

The overwhelming breath-holding of the day was concentrated around the so-called “booby-trapped” apartment belonging to the alleged shooter, James Holmes. After...

Who Is James Holmes, the Aurora Shooting Suspect?

After news broke overnight that at least 12 people were killed and 50 injured in a shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., during a midnight showing of The...

Jessica Ghawi, Colorado Victim, Was Nearly Killed in June Toronto Shooting

It’s hard to envision a more chilling coincidence. Jessica Ghawi, who was shot and killed in Friday’s Dark Knight Rises massacre at a Colorado movie theater,...