Is Chris Christie a viable Presidential candidate for the G.O.P.? John Cassidy looks at the issues he would need to resolve before 2016: http://nyr.kr/SrRMfx

Photograph by Ida Mae Astute/ABC/Getty.

In today’s Daily Comment, Steve Coll looks at two keynote speeches: why Obama succeeded, and Chris Christie failed: http://nyr.kr/OucYQ2

Photograph of Obama at the 2004 Democratic National Convention by Lucian Perkins/TWP/Getty Images.

TAMPA (The Borowitz Report)—A mentally unhinged man slipped past security at the Republican National Convention last night and delivered a keynote address before he was subdued: http://nyr.kr/OJRRtI

From the ‘Light Switch of Leadership’ to the ‘Halogen Headlamps of Hope’ to the ‘Gazebo of Gay Marriage,’ Jamie Malanowski details all the necessary tools for political living: http://nyr.kr/OMfNcE