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If his widow had run for Ted Kennedy's seat, would she have won yesterday's election ? Although Victoria Reggie Kennedy had spent ...

If passion, eloquence and moral gravity were the main currency of American politics, Barack Obama would have changed the course of the healt...

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

At the age of twelve, he pestered his family to let him contribute to a memorial volume about his oldest brother, Joe, who had been lost in ...

Six months of scrambling on all fronts--bank bailouts, economic stimulus, climate change--have brought the President lower approval ratings ...

Forty years ago this weekend, two events marked the end of the Kennedy era--Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon , as JFK had promised, and h...

The House proposal to raise taxes on the very rich to help cover health insurance for all brings into focus what has been a hidden issue in...

The Obama White House is waffling on the public option and making piecemeal deals with providers, as hospitals now agree to sacrifice $155 ...

The table is set for the Senate to cut the heart out of health care reform, with an ailing Ted Kennedy pitted against Max Baucus , recipien...

Today's joint statement by Sens. Max Baucus and Ted Kennedy promising to “seek common ground on health reform legislation” is, in essen...

For the coming political battle, the last Kennedy of his generation is sounding the trumpet for health care reform . "Over the last y...

He turns 77 tomorrow in a life much longer than those of his brothers Joe, Jack and Bobby, who died young and violently before he had reach...

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

As Tom Daschle was explaining his goals as the new "health czar" at a Senate confirmation hearing, one metaphor for the failed sy...

The convention tonight spanned half a century from the possible Last Hurrah from a generation of privileged Kennedys who devoted themselves ...

His dramatic return this week to cast the deciding vote for a crucial Medicare bill brought tears and cheers in the US Senate, even as some...

As we near the fortieth anniversary of Robert Kennedy's assassination this week, Ted Kennedy will be fighting for his life today in six ...

Unlike his brothers, Ted Kennedy won't leave behind any soaring rhetoric for the history books, but colleagues in both parties this week...

For my generation, the sadness over Ted Kennedy's diagnosis today goes deeper than the sudden awareness of one man's mortality. He ...

Now that the question is coming front and center, Barack Obama may want to turn to his backer Ted Sorensen for advice about putting Hillary ...