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The President is finally getting bipartisanship, not on health care, but against a war that has morphed into Iraq II as George Will , no ble...

Bush's Scrooge is making some final appearances and, true to his nature, giving us "Bah, humbug" to the very end. Almost six ...

After months of boring billion-dollar bailouts, the Change in Washington will usher in an exciting new time of the trillion for the incoming...

Advance word of a new National Intelligence Estimate casts doubt on the idea of "victory" in Iraq, creating problems for both Joh...

The Vice President has never been a gushy kind of guy, but his innate modesty and shyness will have to give way to a court order today to p...

Virginia Sen. Jim Webb hates the word but uses it, "not pejoratively," to describe himself and the kind of poor white people who...

There was an anti-war rally in Pittsburgh yesterday. Three protesters showed up. Meanwhile , in Iraq, suicide bombers are killing people in...

The race and gender issues that haunt this year's campaigns were embodied by one person who ran for the Democratic Presidential nominat...

When Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker left Washington last week, they took the war with them, at least as far as the news media are conc...

If he had not been sidetracked in 2000 by the Bush-Rove smear machine , John McCain might have attracted enough Independents and so-called R...

Milestones are news--the fifth anniversary, the 4000th death--and news shield us, as any drug does, from the pain of reality. We swallow som...

After the torrent of words over the arrogance of America's self-selected, unelected Vice President, a former Republican colleague and f...

William Kristol, the Neo-Con water carrier, finds inspiration today in the poet of empire, Rudyard Kipling, via George Orwell, a literary c...

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

Now that Mitt Romney has packed up his money and gone , those who oppose the bloodshed in Iraq know what they have to do between now and Nov...

In attacking Barack Obama, the ex-President has gone past embarrassing into his own kind of seductive swiftboating. Is there any difference...

To go all the way to the nomination, Mike Huckabee will have to reconcile his party's tension between those who worship God and those wh...

Iraq is fading from the minds of the American public, and politicians, pollsters and pundits are trying to figure out how it happened. Altho...

Iraqis are going home in Baghdad, and veterans of the war are starting to live on the streets back here. Another day of weird news dramatize...

In 1966, during his first political campaign, Ronald Reagan was asked what kind of governor he would be. "I don't know," he sa...