Never missing a chance to rough up a Democrat, the News played my piece across the bottom of Page One. So, that year Frankie gave the money to St. Mary's Hospital and...
There was a wonderful example of that written by Hector Tobar, a Los Angeles Times correspondent returning home after seven years covering and living in Latin America....
I concluded then that: "My own feeling is that only a strong president with a mandate for governing through a universal crisis -- a necessary war or devastating climate...
Or, as Mort Kondracke, the executive editor of Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, put it:"How can the Republican Party rebound? The first step would be to quit...
The quote is from the introduction of a new book by a remarkable historian (and former political operative), Harold Holzer, who has written more than 30 books on...
In Amar's reading, history was changed and the United States was headed in new directions by the elections of 1800, 1860, 1932 and either 1968 or 1980, depending on...
Of course, we are in burst-bubble trouble, so there is not enough work for singing carpenters and masons. And things are tough for Joe the Plumber, too. Dare I say that...
It has been a strange and wild and wonderful campaign. It began, back in 2007, with a compressed primary campaign that most of us thought would produce both Republican...
Watching her at what many said was her best, I was embarrassed. As a candidate for national office, Sarah Palin is an embarrassment to the nation. She is an...
2. "The legislative process is sometimes not very pretty." This came in his 60-second appearance outside the White House on Friday. Neither, sir, are you. This week has...
So, this is the sum of what I think is my knowledge, most of it political:In real capitalism, like the game of Monopoly, one person would eventually end up with all the...
I hate to break bad news, but we are not winning in Iraq. We are, hopefully and thankfully, doing a little better, relatively. But if you go back a year, or two years,...
Romney was a hoot. My favorite. He must hate the media more than most of those who were in St. Paul, because he spoke as if he has not read or noticed anything for...
The Kennedy book was published during the presidency of Bill Clinton, so now 43 men know. Obama, as I said, is obviously not one of them. But in praise of his acceptance...
Not bad. But "elitism": bad. The "ism" word has evolved over centuries to mean, according to the same dictionary: "The belief that certain persons or members of certain...
Obama: "You've got to refresh yourself ... I am going to take a week in August. But I agree with you that somebody, somebody who had worked in the White House who -- not...
"OBAMANIA: From Berlin to the suburbs of Lyon, the Democratic candidate who fascinates the world shows the making of a president."I could go on in many languages, if I...
In Europe, Obama will be greeted as if he were already president of the United States -- or as if he were a Beatle. Polls in both France and Germany -- by Le Figaro and...
I was greatly impressed by an essay in the current edition of Time by Peter Beinart, a senior fellow (though only 37 years old) at the Council on Foreign Relations, that...