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Yesterday's beer at the White House for Prof. Gates and Sgt. Crowley was complimentary, along with milk-of-human-kindness chasers, but ...

While the nation suffers a political migraine over health care reform, today's news spotlights an overlooked aspect of the mess--that th...

While the President serves beer to Henry Louis Gates and James Crowley in the White House today, Lucia Whalen will be at work in Cambridge,...

In a defining moment for the politics of Change, the President is facing a fight-or-flight choice against a coalition led by a powerful memb...

After a week of hearings and a fortnight of soul-searching, Republican Judiciary Committee members will vote today against confirming Sonia...

Politics' loss is society's gain as Sarah Palin stepped into her new career yesterday with "some straight talk" about the...

As she steps down today as governor of Alaska, where is the Mouth That Roared headed? Political obscurity is a possible destination but, b...

This month, for the first time in decades, a payment I sent did not reach its intended recipient. This rare mishap was a reminder that good ...

Nobody ever accused the President of being a slow learner. "President Obama tried Friday," says the New York Times , "to defu...

In saying a policeman acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr., President Obama has uncharacteristically inflamed a mi...

Six months and counting, Obama's Era of Change has reached a crucial point where the push against "politics as usual" has foun...

The debate is heading for rock bottom. "If you like your plan," Barack Obama promises for the umpteenth time in the Rose Garden ...

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

For the oldest of us, the Evening News died yesterday, the "most trusted man in America" who came into our living rooms every week...

Juggling money is still America's biggest growth industry, according to the new earnings boom for Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JP Morgan C...

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...

In Washington's two debates this week, health care reform and the Sotomayor nomination , you could turn off the TV sound and miss little...

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...

As the Sotomayor Show drones on , Democrats and Republicans are pushing dueling plot lines--an American dream of minority upward mobility vs...

Last year's debate over whether the Vice President was part of the executive or legislative arm of government is being mooted by revelat...