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The etiquette of celebrity death brings the usual talking heads--calculating Orrin Hatch on PBS, loathsome Joe Lieberman on Larry King--with...

The state of the economy, it's safe to say, is iffy at best but, less than six months after its passage, the market for badmouthing the ...

By my count, Barack Obama kissed at least two dozen women on his way in and out of the House last night, but the affectionate post-speech hi...

If an Obama Administration is anything like the campaign, Americans may have an efficient government again. Behind the candidate's chari...

The trickle of newspaper endorsements is reaching flood stage this weekend, with the New York Times expected to join other major newspaper...

By dominating media coverage, Sarah Palin is giving Joe Biden a pass to do what he does best, talk straight to voters without the glare of b...

To restore America in a time of economic crisis and partisan hatred, a hairline victory will not be enough. True, George W. Bush turned a de...

Behind the blather about William Ayers by Republicans and the resurrection of the Keating Five by Democrats, the start of the Supreme Court...

On the scoreboard, both Sarah Palin and Joe Biden met their challenges tonight, but there was a great disparity in what they won. Palin pro...

Joe Biden will be debating the wind, if the experience of someone who faced off with Sarah Palin more than two dozen times is any indication...

After seven years of Musharraf's shell game, the stakes are getting serious as American Special Ops forces are carrying out ground assau...

Has it only been a week? The "My Fair Lady" metaphor, footwear and all, comes full circle with Maureen Dowd's column today: ...

In the Democratic debates, Joe Biden famously dismissed Rudy Giuliani with: “There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and...

Joe Biden's slip in his first vice-presidential peroration today (“the next president of the United States--Barack America!”) may be a ...

As the selection of Joe Biden becomes clear , the only remaining mystery is how political observers could have possibly doubted that Obama ...

If Barack Obama was not already inclined toward him as a running mate, John McCain and Vladimir Putin in the past week should have helped ma...

As Sunday talk shows are flooded with possible VPs for both tickets, political junkies start the next round of speculation--about the best ...

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

As the short list dwindles down and Republican attacks heat up, the arguments for Joe Biden as Barack Obama's running mate strengthen. ...

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