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With the emergence of Sarah Palin , this is officially the year of personal narrative in national politics--no more Bush or Clinton dynastie...

As they hold their private summit in Washington tonight, the question that hangs in the air, whether she is on Obama's ticket or not, i...

Only the most churlish opponents of the war would want to minimize the low Iraq casualty figures for May or even argue over the Washington ...

Congress keeps turning Bluer with the Mississippi victory yesterday of Democrat Travis Childers despite Dick Cheney's stumping for his o...

Whatever happened to the Melting Pot? Now we learn that "Barack Obama is faring better than might be expected among Jewish voters, beat...

Barack Obama had only words today, but it would take a heart of stone and a closed mind to deny their power at this moment in American histo...

Two stories hogged the attention of Americans in 2007 with "reverse trajectories," at first the war in Iraq, which declined in int...

The man who plagued the White House from JFK on won't be around for the next occupant, although the turmoil of his succession may be mor...

Tall, handsome Jim Himes looks a little like James Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and, at a meeting with supporters in ...

After the uproar over Bush Administration surveillance of American citizens, the news from Bloomberg country today is unnerving. During his ...

If the Presidential election were held today, it might end up in a worse muddle than Bush-Gore in 2000. Gallup tells us Hillary Clinton can...

"I veto, therefore I am" is the new theme of the Bush Administration. In 1948, Harry Truman got to stay in the White House by rail...

The party that could win the White House and extend its majorities in both houses of Congress next year is in disarray. In confronting a Pre...

There is jubilation among Hillary Clinton supporters as her campaign manager exults in an e-mail, "This is the moment when your dedicat...

Too-muchness is beginning to catch up with America's Mayor. Initially propelled by TV images of those terrible days in 2001, the Giulian...

That noted connoisseur of children’s stories, George Bush, has gone on from “The Pet Goat” to rewriting a classic for 2008. In his version o...

While George Bush tells Old America his new plans for the plantation tonight, the Democrats will be engaging New America in cyberspace on th...

Gov. Arnold, who knows about these things, is advising his party on how to get the grosses up next year. He told a Republican convention th...

So this is how the war starts to end, not with a bang but a whimper, as the Hollow Men in Washington quibble, equivocate and compromise over...

In Iowa this week, Michelle Obama gave voters a new reason to consider her husband for President. “First ladies were once more or less aver...