Clare Morgana Gillis, a freelance journalist held in Libya along with GlobalPost contributor James Foley and another Western reporter, called her parents Thursday from a detention facility in Tripoli. It was the first contact any of them made with the…

Despite the fact that the first primary voters will not cast a ballot for another seven months, the bulk of the unparalleled presidential campaign coverage has focused on the so-called "horse race" stories, rather than the issues.