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In northern New York State, they are staging a 21st century version of an American classic, old-time hardball without the Iowa corn. "...

Say what you will about the post-Bush decline of the GOP, its current shenanigans make Democrats look like the Partridge family. Compared to...

Charges of racism against Sonia Sotomayor are being reduced to exceeding the speed limit for empathy as Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions instruct...

Grownups are just children who owe money, said a character in the 1992 movie "Peter's Friends" and now, with the economic cris...

Heartbreaking news for Antonin Scalia ( irony alert ): His reputation as the warmest, fuzziest Justice may be endangered by Barack Obama...

Some Democrats are still gun-shy about health care reform, dating back to the Clintons' fiasco in the early 1990s, according to House Ma...

Under the oddest byline ever, an unlikely trio tells New York Times OpEd readers today how to fix American health care --by applying the ex...

After pulling an all-nighter , the low-approval gang in Washington this morning will give us their new, improved version of the $700 billio...

Soon after he moved into the White House, Bill Clinton was tagged by Maureen Dowd as the first president who was still social-climbing. Afte...

The reason is simple: The job isn't big enough. Newt Gingrich’s decision not to pursue the presidency was announced today by a spokesma...

The Bush Administration keeps recalling the cliché about the kid who kills his parents and pleads for mercy because he’s an orphan. Now Repu...

The former Speaker of the House wants to stop the war. "Why,” he asks, “are the August vacations for the president and the Congress mor...

If Newt Gingrich got $4.5 million and Clarence Thomas $1 million, what will Rupert Murdoch pay for Karl Rove’s memoirs? In announcing his d...

The Energizer Bunny of American politics has too much on his plate to campaign for the White House. "The presidency is a minor post on ...

On the eve of another Rupert Murdoch mongoose act, this time swallowing the Wall Street Journal , he gets a review from the New York Times ...