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Pakistan is looking like Cuba in the 1950s and Iran in the '70s as armed zealots start to take over a country without the will to resist...

The Lincolnesque concept is meeting with iffy success on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Hillary Clinton goes to Asia reaching out for t...

George W Bush is on his way home, but some of the Lone Star nastiness he brought to Washington lingers on as the state's junior senator ...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State by 16 to 1 with only Sen. David Vitter opposing t...

At her confirmation yesterday, Hillary Clinton invoked the concept of " smart power " as a guide to American diplomacy. In his hea...

News that she is interested in being appointed to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat is coming as a surprise to those who have always seen C...

With the imminent naming of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, the retention of Robert Gates at Defense will raise questions about exac...

In the wreckage of this week's news, it's encouraging to watch the Obama Administration taking shape with an emphasis on extreme com...

Today's transition hot topic is the rumor that the President-Elect is considering Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State and that the t...

Obama passed on her as vice president but can still put Hillary Clinton on the team by backing her for Senate Majority Leader. In that role...

After eight years of obstinate stupidity in the White House, the change voters should want most is a combination of common sense and common...

Sarah Palin's arrival has sent the sexism debate into a cuckooland where Pat Buchanan is defending her womanhood and Gloria Steinem is ...

The booing of Sarah Palin yesterday for lauding Hillary Clinton's presidential primary achievement is a dandy metaphor for the sexual s...

Cancel the conventions, call off the debates and go straight to the Election Night scoreboard to see how large McCain's margin of victor...

Lilly Ledbetter is the latest addition to the list of speakers at the Democratic convention next week, and her appearance may possibly do Ba...

The process is unfolding like one of those country-house melodramas in which likely suspects disappear one by one. The latest departure from...

The Issue That Dared Not Speak Its Name is now on everybody's lips , including John McCain's and Barack Obama's own. Is this goo...

The first test of his decision-making is at hand. The short list is down to "about twenty current top government officials, former top...

Hillary Clinton was truly remarkable today, making the most difficult speech of her life and finding her voice as a national leader over an...

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...