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Reelecting Barack Obama this year won’t be enough. Unless Democrats retake Congress, gridlock in Washington won’t end. Now, a Democratic s...

No GOP slugfests for the next three weeks —-how will we get through the month? Yesterday Gingrich gave us some venom to go, in the parking...

A Gail Collins admirer has to tell her she has been taken in by Republican plagiarism of Michelle Obama. In her column , she writes about ...

After months of trying to ameliorate a disease ravaging the GOP, Jon Huntsman Jr. has moved into fighting cancers that afflict human beings...

Ghosts of GOP past are rising from political tombs to sound alarms about Newt in the White House even as the last Florida debate has him on...

For a while the other day, my life turned upside down—-literally. My computer screen inverted itself and would not return to normal no what ...

...is the GOP Congress as the President does a deft job of trying to reboot his final year with small unilateral steps to get around the pa...

In the wake of a relatively brisk, civilized debate, ringmaster Gingrich is complaining about losing his rabble-rousing rights. Reacting t...

Now that future Presidents Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have had their say, a person named Barack Obama, who claims to hold the office, wil...

During the 1960 campaign, JFK said he felt sorry for Nixon: “It must be hard getting up every morning and having to decide who you’re going ...

In South Carolina , Prof. Gingrich has combined theology with science: When a snake, i.e. the media, drops a bitten apple on you, deflect it...

The tone of last night’s GOP séance was set in the first minute, not by the candidates or moderator, but whooping and applause of hand-picke...

Is Mel Brooks directing this movie? Tonight’s final South Carolina debate will no doubt start as usual with the gang sitting under the pal...

Apology is overdue to George W. Romney for my remembering him only as an unsophisticated man whose remarks about being “brainwashed” in Vie...

The First Lady turns 48 today. I know because an e-mail from the President last week reminded me with two links to a fund-raising site: “T...

After pious Denver quarterback Tim Tebow is humiliated on the gridiron, there comes unsettling news for evangelicals who days ago met and d...

Five years ago, in another political world when Barack Obama was getting ready to run for president, I wrote this: West Side residents of ...

The PBS series is becoming the “West Wing” and “Sopranos” of the century’s second decade, mirroring Americans’ longing for escape from the O...

The GOP debates could make a profit on Pay TV if they let Stephen Colbert join the panel. How much would it be worth to see him match wits w...

As Mitt Romney tries to seal the deal in the Palmetto state and falls in the polls , memories come back of a culture clash when I was in ba...