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In 1992, Bill Clinton made history as the first Presidential candidate to appear on MTV, play the sax and answer questions about his underwe...

Donald Rumsfeld is out of office, Paul Wolfowitz is in disgrace and Scooter Libby is on his way to jail. But the criminal who played them li...

Steven Spielberg has spoken. The Hillary Clinton campaign announced today that he “has chosen to endorse Clinton because of her experience ...

Gallant as always, the Bushies have apparently thrown a couple of women to Congressional investigators by letting subpoenas be served on Ha...

In my prehistoric newspaper days, the “silly season” was late summer when the real world was on vacation, and editors filled space with offb...

After rehearsing with Jay Leno last night, Fred Thompson is ready for his Fourth of July closeup, Mr. DeMille. As an actor Thompson has alw...

If there is still a line somewhere between journalism and vitriolic jawboning, Dennis Miller doesn’t know where it is. As a Fox News “politi...

Today’s New York Times reports a “closed-door meeting” that its reporter was allowed to put on the record: “In a Sunday afternoon discussi...

Rapidly depleting the good-will balance in his Journalism Hall of Fame account, Dan Rather had a few words yesterday for Katie Couric, who ...

Among the pleasures of “The Sopranos” has been the feeling you get when the world discovers someone or something you’ve appreciated for a lo...

It takes a certain kind of brilliance for Senate Democrats to make a big effort to get a non-binding vote on the popularity of Alberto Gonza...

Disillusion is always saddening and, in the case of Robert Novak, it’s positively heart-breaking. His column in today’s Washington Post is...

She’s in jail, he’s gone, the weekend’s over, but the war in Iraq goes on and people keep dying. In dry, actuarial terms, this week’s Time ...

With neither a bang nor a whimper, David Chase just pulls the plug. OK, as in other season enders, the family is having dinner, this time in...

A useful word that has fallen into disfavor, “punk” should be revived for the current political discourse over Iran. The loose-lipped Irania...

The “ gay bomb ” would never have worked. Al Quaeda and the Shiite militias would have countered with “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and the end r...

Despite stiff-necked media harrumphing about the President at the Vatican this weekend, it can reliably be reported that His Holiness, Bene...

Joe Scarborough, a clean-cut former Republican Congressman turned broadcaster, took a lot of flak last week for an allegedly salacious remar...

At the pitch meeting, it must have looked foolproof: Remake “Wag the Dog” with “Westworld” action set in Graustark with singing and dancing...

Two families have kept us in suspense since this century started. We won’t have all the answers about the Bushes until the end of next year,...