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Mark Penn, the chief strategist who did more than anyone to kill Hillary Clinton's campaign, is copping a plea. In today's New York ...

The Republican nominee disclosed his heart's desire today. "I am intrigued by a man on Mars and I think that it would excite the im...

Hillary Clinton was truly remarkable today, making the most difficult speech of her life and finding her voice as a national leader over an...

Gloria Steinem thinks Barack Obama should make the same kind of speech about gender that he did about race and, according to the New York T...

If he decides against Hillary Clinton as a running mate, the Democratic nominee might consider Dianne Feinstein, who played Jewish mother la...

A duped Bush Administration lied us into Iraq and, with the help of comparable Middle East con men, has been drumming up a war with Iran, ...

As they hold their private summit in Washington tonight, the question that hangs in the air, whether she is on Obama's ticket or not, i...

Of all the contrasts between the two presidential candidates--political philosophy, age, race--the most glaring, as we saw this week, may be...

Forty years ago tonight, hours before Robert Kennedy was killed, I was campaigning as a Eugene McCarthy delegate to the 1968 Democratic conv...

While America's attention is riveted on politicians' hunger for power, the rest of the world is grappling with the threat of real st...

No one expected they would go quietly, but the Clintons may be maneuvering the former First Lady off the Democratic ticket by continuing to ...

The sight of Barack Obama actually being named presumptive Democratic candidate for President, no matter how expected. is astonishing to ey...

Those who believe human intelligence and sensitivity are disappearing from the planet will find confirmation in a Washington Post report ab...

When the candidates face off this fall in the political version of reality TV's survivor shows, what are we likely to see? The scripts a...

One thing you have to say about our lame-duck vice president: He's been a barrel of laughs, and he got off a real knee-slapper at the N...

Behind the media popcorn of Scott McClellan's revelations, relatively unnoticed is a new book by the former American commander in Iraq t...

What would Monday mornings be these days without some fresh William Kristol absurdity on the New York Times OpEd page? Today the accident-p...

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

The former President has "helped save the lives of 1,300,000 people in his post-presidency." Anyone who doubts that can check with...

Only the most churlish opponents of the war would want to minimize the low Iraq casualty figures for May or even argue over the Washington ...