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As Harry Reid pressures holiday-homebound Democrats to vote for a start of the Senate health care debate, Republican resisters have found a...

Now that she has smooched you-know-who this week, the talented Ms. Winfrey is ready to end the talk show that made her a billionaire and st...

Tomorrow, he turns 92 after passing another milestone yesterday as the longest-serving member of Congress in history, almost 57 years. Wi...

Now that John McCain has finally spoken out to defend his campaign staff and Andrew Sullivan has gone dark to analyze "Going Rogue,...

The more we learn about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the thinner the line stretches between ideology and mental illness, and the more troubling i...

Four decades after being tortured in a North Vietnamese prison camp, John McCain is trapped in a slow drip of accusations from Sarah Palin a...

A long-time Congressman offers a lesson today about how politics and the media collude to distort rational discussion. In an Op Ed , Rep. Ea...

The attacks brought Americans together briefly, but the aftermath is still sowing division--as the decision of Attorney General Eric Holder...

In 2006, conservative columnist David Brooks fell in love politically with a young senator and wrote a column, " Run Barack Run ."...

Barack Obama is doing what George W. Bush failed to do in Iraq--looking for " where the off-ramps are ," according to a White Hous...

CNN has struck a blow for journalism on cable TV by forcing Lou Dobbs to take his "advocacy" elsewhere. Somewhere between the rig...

As Decision Day nears and the President considers four options for Afghanistan, a question hovers over his agonizing: Is it a war or an end...

In his Ft. Hood eulogy today, the President eloquently honored "men and women answering an extraordinary call--the call to serve their...

In the battle over health care, the Republican Right, after months of saying no to every Obama initiative from stimulus to bailouts, has gon...

In moments of crisis, Gail Collins wrote in the New York Times yesterday, "I generally recommend looking to see where Joe Lieberman i...

When Arizona Republican John Shadegg used a seven-month-old baby as a prop during yesterday's debate on health care, his symbolism was ...

As the nation was reeling from the Ft. Hood horror yesterday, a pathetic loner killed one man and wounded five other people in an Orlando o...

The TV screen today looks like the vision of a demented performance artist. You can click from images of wildly cheering crowds in a Manhatt...

Less than three years after the Virginia campus massacre, another mass murderer strikes at the American heart, this time at a military base ...

At Yankee Stadium last night, a young man born in Japan decades after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought joy to, am...