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Forget all the rhetoric about four more years of Bush, Old Politics vs. New Politics and all that jazz. Absent any plausible reason for a la...

What's left of the real Barack Obama and John McCain after all this nonstop being seen and heard? If Obama wins the prize Tuesday, it m...

Do-gooders around the world have been working overtime to prevent the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases by stimulating the us...

As polls show pushy Palinism hurting McCain's chances, the struggle for the Republican future is reflected by two traditional conservat...

Today's economics lecture from Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman is deeply disquieting. The bad news , in a nutshell, is that American con...

With an estimated one out of three Americans casting ballots before Election Day this year, it may be time to rethink the tradition of havin...

Andrew Sullivan cites her for commentary "that knocks your socks off," but with the restraint more seemly for age, I just tip my ...

There was a moment last night when Barack Obama was saying the McCain campaign was calling him a Socialist because he had once shared a pean...

The presidential campaign peaked on prime-time TV with Barack Obama's 30-minute, $5 million valentine to the American middle class, fol...

For Americans, after almost two years of electioneering, the prospect of going cold turkey in less than a week is producing symptoms of anxi...

In this final week, the former Navy flier is piloting his campaign with the navigational skills of Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, ...

TCM is showing Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole" tonight, my favorite among all journalism movies over "The Front Page,...

The humiliation of Alan Greenspan last week in publicly admitting his fallible perception of the housing bubble prompts David Brooks to see...

With a week to go, more than a million ballots have been cast in each of three swing states--Georgia, North Carolina and Florida--foreshadow...

After Election Day, Alaska may have the Vice President-Elect (or not) and a convicted felon who has just won another term in the Senate (or...

With only a week to go, Republicans have been busy trying to use computer errors to make voters disappear in swing states such as Georgia, ...

The 4th District of Connecticut, where I live, is represented in the House by the region's only surviving Republican of the Bush years, ...

In this desperate week of fighting to hold onto Washington power, the GOP will play its last card--to arouse voter fear of what one-party ru...

As Barack Obama was promising voters "We're not going to let George Bush pass the torch to John McCain," the GOP candidate hi...

Attack dogs can get carried away and turn on their handlers, the Republican campaign now seems to be learning, as open warfare breaks out i...