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Two days after his 90th birthday, Edward Brooke was at the Capitol yesterday to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from President Obama an...

Yes, yes, to fight the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. But eight years later, American blood and treasure are still being poured into a ...

At the opening of the World Series tonight, there will be a moment of convergence for American culture's defining elements--politics, wa...

"I won’t risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary," the President said yesterday at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. ...

As Congress stumbles toward a final deal , the process is a reminder of the disheartening political climate in which we live today. No one w...

The journalism gods turned prankish Friday. As Chesley Sullenberger was taping a PBS News Hour interview about how he how saved 155 lives b...

At 83, Hugh Hefner in his Mansion is looking more like the faded silent-movie star of "Sunset Boulevard" than the host of the mos...

Campaign attacks on Barack Obama and his crew as latte-drinking elitists are finally coming into play in their war of words with Rupert Mur...

Life irritates art as leading musicians join a Freedom of Information suit to discover how loud rock was used as an instrument of torture a...

A movement is stirring both here and in Britain to roll back commercial banks to the post-Depression era, when they were barred from gamblin...

If Barack Obama had been president in 2002, he says he would have stayed out of Iraq and pursued al Qaeda in Afghanistan. But that simple ...

The medical specialists most likely to benefit from the health care debate are optometrists as the Senate Finance Committee releases its 150...

The knock on Barack Obama from the start was his unwillingness to go head to head--"mix it up a little," as Maureen Dowd urged him...

If there is an emergency room for lobbyists, the gunslingers for America's health insurance giants need treatment for shooting themselve...

You can trace his pilgrim's progress in images that used to be a preoccupation of my working life, magazine covers. In the " Cover ...

The news that Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town is on the brink of bankruptcy stirs memories of the world in which it became the home of retu...

Symbolism comes with a heavy hand these days as Stock Exchange traders cheer at the Dow hitting 10,000 while the national employment rate h...

The assembly line in the Congressional sausage factory is ready to roll, to stuff what Max Baucus' butchers have hacked up into a casin...

Olympia Snowe may not be out of a Frank Capra movie but, as an independent-minded Republican in an era of hard-line party politics, she is c...

Al Sharpton has his knickers in a twist over news that Rush Limbaugh is trying to acquire the National Football League franchise in St. Lou...