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Sarah Palin and Mark Sanford, who won't stop talking about the conjunction of their political and personal problems, are taking us into ...

"People," Gail Collins asks in today's New York Times , "what is going on with governors in this country? Are we doomed ...

As the Obamas hobnob with royalty overseas, their former rivals, the Palins, are making news in Alaska. The matriarch of the clan, Gov. Sar...

State by state, the Recovery Scoreboard is lighting up with projects to be funded by some of the $787 billion Congress passed last month to ...

Tonight's spotlight on Bobby Jindal to rebut Obama's speech to Congress shows Republican reverting to the finest traditions of show...

We are back to the days when movie actors posed and pranced for the cameras without uttering a word in the new media strategy of the Republ...

Years from now, at show-and-tell in school, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston will be able to bring in pictures of his grandmothers from the ye...

After being overshadowed by another spunky statehouse figure, Alaska's Governor finally gets some attention this weekend as Colin Powell...

It's not every day you get to write a sentence like this: As Keith Olbermann was making a pumpkin pie with Martha Stewart yesterday, the...

In that alternate reality Up North, Gov. Sarah Palin is back home with her new fame and wardrobe, while Ted Stevens seems to have won reele...

As new polling shows her costing him more votes than she might win, John McCain's running mate is, in her own way, doing a number of se...

Andrew Sullivan cites her for commentary "that knocks your socks off," but with the restraint more seemly for age, I just tip my ...

The presidential campaign peaked on prime-time TV with Barack Obama's 30-minute, $5 million valentine to the American middle class, fol...

After Election Day, Alaska may have the Vice President-Elect (or not) and a convicted felon who has just won another term in the Senate (or...

As Barack Obama was promising voters "We're not going to let George Bush pass the torch to John McCain," the GOP candidate hi...

Never overburdened with ideas to start, the Republican race has degenerated into a series of loony-tune stereotypes of Barack Obama--as a s...

Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama today underscores how clearly and irreparably John McCain has split open the fault line in t...

Sarah Palin, who has yet to Meet the Press or Face the Nation, showed up on Saturday Night Live tonight minutes before Oliver Stone rose fr...

Her non-stop savaging of Barack Obama's choice of friends may have to be put on hold as Sarah Palin explains herself and her spouse. The...

Last night's debate showed a contrast between two men of different generations, speaking styles and body language. Tonight the TV screen...