News & Election Videos
Authors Listing
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
Recent Articles
- Polishing the Palin Mettle - November 19, 2009
- Sarah Palin arouses venom from the left like Hillary Clinton from the right. On the day after her Oprah interview, Richard Cohen in The Washington Post said it was time...
- Deaf Ears, Dumb Voters - November 12, 2009
- If a photograph is worth a thousand words, a sharp newspaper cartoon is often worth the book. One Israeli cartoonist depicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the...
- A Fallen Wall for Fallen Men - November 5, 2009
- Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. If Humpty Dumpty had been sitting on top of it, not Soviet soldiers, nor Stasi spies could put Humpty together...
- Home Economics Reduced to Economics - October 29, 2009
- Maria Shriver is no "wife of," even though she's married to the governor of California. She's no "niece of," although her uncle was president of the United States. She...
- An Inconvenient Rebuttal - October 22, 2009
- Ann McElhinney's low-budget documentary refuting the global warming hype and hysteria arrives in Washington just in time to break Al Gore's crystal ball. "Not Evil Just...
- The Nobler Nobels - October 15, 2009
- Enough already. Barack Obama got the Nobel Prize for Hope and Hype, and now the rest is up to him. But there are more important Nobels, and this year women won three of...
- Sense and Sexuality - October 8, 2009
- Not so long ago, rape was a capital offense, right up there with murder. When death was not decreed, convicted rapists could count on a long prison sentence. No one took...
- A Revolution Too Far - October 1, 2009
- Austin, age 13, is touching and familiar. With his helmet of short brown hair, biggish ears and sensitive eyes, he's typical of a tender age almost on the cusp of...
- When Defenses Go Down - September 24, 2009
- Autumn in Washington is often cruel. The heat and the humidity have lifted, and Congress returns more or less refreshed from summer vacation, but the pressure cooker...
- It's Multicultural, Stupid - September 17, 2009
- The attack on America on Sept. 11 set off alarms everywhere. We were shocked to discover that few Foreign Service officers were fluent in Arabic or Farsi, the dominant...
- Learning is No Picnic, Buster - September 10, 2009
- Conservatives and other parents won their point. President Obama dropped his lesson plan for the schoolchildren of America. He didn't ask what they can do for him, as he...
- No Requiem for a Twitching Corpse - September 3, 2009
- All but hidden in the fulsome eulogies for Ted Kennedy lurk a few serious ideas worthy of more than romancing history or waxing sentimental over a death in a famous...
- Obama's Bummer of a Summer - August 27, 2009
- This is everybody's bummer of a season, particularly these rough weeks for Barack Obama. You could call this a summer of discontent, but there's nothing poetic about it....
- Cheating the Least Among Us - August 20, 2009
- WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Colonial Williamsburg is proud of its tradesmen. You can see the carpenters walking out of the history books and down the cobblestone streets, ready...
- Reverie Beyond the Beltway - August 13, 2009
- The shorter days of late summer ushers in the melancholy prospect of autumn, the thoughts of returning to school, work and reality. Such anticipation makes the last...
- Keeping Big Brother Out of End-of-Life Decisions - August 7, 2009
- When my mother was in her late 80s, I took her to a lawyer's office one sunny day to sign her "living will." We read over the questions and her answers, and she signed...
- The Public Isn't Buying Obama's Smooth Talk - July 30, 2009
- Barack Obama was a rock star on the campaign trail and his aura went undimmed in his first few months of office. But then he began taking too many curtain calls. The...
- The Legacy of the Jewish Mother - July 23, 2009
- Before there was multiculturalism, there was assimilation. Before assimilation, there was ethnic pride. Before ethnic pride, there was fear and frustration in the old...
- When a Tweet is Not Enough - July 16, 2009
- WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- All politics may not be loco, as one famous pundit (Michael Barone) puts it, but the ancient maxim that all politics is local is demonstrably true....
- Palin Juggles Two Parties - July 9, 2009
- You took a fine time to leave us, Sarah. Can't you imagine Kenny Rogers singing about it? We've had some bad times/ Lived through some sad times/ But this time your...
- Lessons From a Past Protest - June 25, 2009
- BERLIN -- The righteous rage in the streets of Tehran is familiar to Berliners. They recall their own demonstrations that doomed the hated Berlin Wall two decades ago....
- Glass Ceilings Aren't Glass Slippers - June 18, 2009
- You don't have to be from Venus or Mars to notice that Sonia Sotomayor was appreciated more for her Hispanic roots than for female gifts. That's how President Obama...
- A Bad Week for Old Blighty - June 11, 2009
- LONDON -- This is not Britain's finest hour. The expense-account scandal has exposed rot at the core of the Parliament, where greedy members abused their perks to use...
- No Slouching Toward Confirmation - June 4, 2009
- Nothing so polarizes the nation as a nomination to the Supreme Court. Advise and consent is often more like divide and confront, rarely eliciting our best debates....
- An Appeal to Survival Ethics - May 28, 2009
- Washington is a company town, and what the company makes best is politics and policy. Sometimes the politics is "unprecedented," as certain historians called the duel...
- A Courtship for Bibi and Obama - May 21, 2009
- Diplomacy is like courtship, with its rituals to keep passions in check. Both diplomacy and courtship pose tests to see whether a meeting of the minds can turn into a...
- When Shame Yields to Resilience - May 14, 2009
- John Edwards wears the scarlet letter on his tailored Armani suits. The bold letter "A" is not embroidered with fine needlework such as Hester Prynne sewed for herself....
- Souter, Specter and a Soft Shoe - May 7, 2009
- Souter & Specter sounds like a vaudeville song and dance team, stuck in Cleveland and still dreaming of playing the Palace. You can almost hear their Peoria humor...
- The Banality of Preening From Liberals - April 30, 2009
- Hannah Arendt was wrong. Evil is never banal. Evil is fascinating, provocative and mind-focusing. Adolph Eichmann was probably a bore at a Nazi dinner party, a dull...
- Honor Thy Veterans - April 23, 2009
- A guest at a cocktail party in Cleveland Park, the fashionable Washington neighborhood of middle-class liberals ("progressives," they want to be called this year), tells...
- Calling Shots Requires Precision - April 16, 2009
- Language matters. President Barack Obama learned that in time to give the command to slay Somali pirates when they threatened imminent death for Capt. Richard Phillips,...
- Mom in Chief as Marie Antoinette - April 9, 2009
- When she and the president catch up on what they missed in Washington, they should read the latest performance evaluation of the Opportunity Scholarship...
- Cultivating Her Own Garden - April 2, 2009
- Michelle has planted vegetables on the south lawn of the White House, just like Eleanor Roosevelt's World War II victory garden -- and unlike Eleanor, she...
- Obama's Indelicate Exposure - March 26, 2009
- Obama goes out of his way to seek a celebrity's attention, and he's still in his first hundred days. When he makes an off-hand jest about his bowling score...
- Red Meat for Dinner - March 19, 2009
- This was not the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity crowd; there would be no knock 'em, sock 'em, beat 'em rhetoric. The audience expected something "thoughty," a...
- Women's Work Is Never Done - March 12, 2009
- In America, she represents the swiftly changing roles of women. Barbie's fun to tease, but she's as American as miniskirts and pantsuits in her flexible identities and...
- Slings and Arrows on the Way - March 5, 2009
- The new quarterback is calling the signals, and he'll have to face the consequences of the execution of the game plan -- if not now, soon. The tanking stock market is...
- Royalty Ain't What It Used to Be - February 26, 2009
- But choosing homecoming queens has never been an exercise in equity. Life is not always fair on campus, either. Many a queen was chosen because she was the...
- Obama Meets the Real Hamilton - February 19, 2009
- He's a founding father who might have been president even though he was foreign born -- "the bastard brat of a Scotch pedlar," in the derisive description of...
- Waking from the Dream - February 12, 2009
- His kind words for Republicans have become the scolding of an affronted president, the offered hand a partisan fist. He had picked Republicans for his...