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- Pride of the Yankees - February 7, 2009
- But he is, or soon will be, the secretary of commerce. President Barack Obama selected him last week -- the third Republican in his Cabinet -- and in choosing the senior...
- Portrait of a President - January 31, 2009
- But before long Obama is likely going to want to make some changes in the most famous office in the world. Indeed, a top White House official said in an e-mail exchange...
- The Eloquence is in the Moment - January 20, 2009
- For yesterday the nation paused -- not in grief but in remembrance, not in celebration but in solemnity, not in raucous joy but in quiet fulfillment -- a fulfillment not...
- The Tyranny of History - January 16, 2009
- This slogan from one of the nation's most storied military units, the Seabees, has a special meaning for this season of hope and renewal in American civic life. The new...
- The Obama Era - January 12, 2009
- Which is why the boasts of the trumpet's call to arms in American inaugurations are almost always accompanied with the whisper of humility, a word that actually appears...
- The Men Who Go to Lunch - January 3, 2009
- They are coming together in the house whose heritage they share at the invitation of George W. Bush to honor, warn, counsel and commiserate with Barack Obama. The...
- Hope Chest - December 27, 2008
- Not to darken the mood, but I feel obliged to remind that there is a Bad Luck Mountain in Hampden, Mass., and to note that every political writer of a certain age...
- The Years the Locusts Ate - December 19, 2008
- In the 10 years since Clinton was impeached, the economy has tumbled twice, four planes were hijacked over American airspace with the intention of using them as lethal...
- In Trouble, In Perspective - December 13, 2008
- Sometimes columnists start out their weekly work with a general idea of the topic and then let the facts at hand steer the course. (It's an honest way to explore your...
- Stop -- In The Name of History - December 6, 2008
- These pages from the frayed American scrapbook seem more vivid than ever in times like these, when we have the sense -- the conviction -- that we are living through...
- The Facebook Revolution - November 29, 2008
- She spent about $50 on Facebook, mobilized students at Plymouth State College and Dartmouth, upset an incumbent with decades of political experience -- and, far more...
- The GOP's Wilderness Years - November 22, 2008
- It is almost too terrible to watch. And yet no party can avoid the agony that the Republicans must endure as they try to regroup for a future in a landscape they could...
- History Will Judge - November 15, 2008
- The fact that the president was all but invisible at Republican congressional and senatorial rallies and barely appeared at John McCain's side this fall is a potent...
- The Burden Of Office: Obama Has Much to Prove - November 8, 2008
- When Sen. Obama becomes President Obama he will face four challenges, each one big enough to daunt a president of uncertain faith. There is the economy, which helped...
- Winning By 'Losing' - October 25, 2008
- So this is an argument to turn all known election strategy on its head. In fact, it's a plea for each nominee to run the final sprint as if he knows he is going to lose,...
- It's All About the Ground Game Now - October 18, 2008
- No one expects turnout to reach those levels in 2008. But it is true that how an election turns out depends in large measure on who turns out.That said, beware the...
- The Importance of Being President - October 11, 2008
- "Young man, I have lived in this house many years and seen the occupants of that White House come and go, and nothing that you minor officials or the occupant of that...
- Confidence Game - October 4, 2008
- But we ought not to mistake what we are witnessing: a multi-dimensional revolt with elements of 1987, 1994 -- and maybe 1976. It affects the financial markets and the...
- Let the Debates Begin - September 20, 2008
- Today, for example, nobody remembers anything about Quemoy and Matsu, particularly which candidate (Nixon) charged the other (Kennedy) with reluctance to defend these...
- Palin's Nomination Puts New Spin on the Election - September 13, 2008
- In some ways this election is wide open: no incumbent seeking another term (as in 2004, 1996, 1992, 1984, 1980), no vice president seeking to move up (2000, 1988), no...
- Presidents Through the Ages - September 6, 2008
- The actual question was posed in 1960 by Harry S Truman nine days before the opening of the Democratic National Convention, and it was pointedly addressed to Sen. John...
- Each Generation's New Technology Changes Poltical Landscape - August 23, 2008
- Some columns are about facts, some about opinions. This one's about a theory. It is proffered by Morley Winograd, who was a senior policy adviser to Vice President Al...
- Bipartisan Cabinet Gains Increasing Support - August 16, 2008
- That's not a good answer for anything in the first decade of a new century, and if it were, all your daughters would be spending the summer being taught to mend and tend...
- New Hampshire's Politics Matter, Even After the Primary - August 9, 2008
- The reason: a peculiar combination of personalities and politics that is transforming a state that is usually ignored in general-election campaigns into a serious...
- Nixon's Mastery of Change Explains His Durability - August 2, 2008
- Today the lemon and orange groves are gone, replaced by a multimillion-dollar shrine and library devoted to the 37th president, but his footprints remain.He went from...
- Another Vacation Slips Through Our Fingers - July 26, 2008
- But for a few days more -- and then, I know, it will be for a few hours more -- I am here, where, as the painter Thomas Cole, who hiked through the White Mountains 180...
- Humphrey Gave Greatest Convention Speech You've Never Heard - July 18, 2008
- "The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges," Kennedy said. "It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but...
- Al Franken Has Become More Serious Guy Than Wiseguy - July 5, 2008
- Now he is running for the Senate and, suddenly, with the one-time funny guy in possession of the Democratic endorsement for the seat held by Sen. Norm Coleman, his...
- VP Choice Isn't Always About Balance - Pitt Post-Gazette - June 20, 2008
- Can '68 Can Teach Us About '08? - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - June 7, 2008
- Is Vietnam No Longer Relevant? - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - May 24, 2008
- Whose Portrait Will Hang in White House? - Pitt P-G - April 18, 2008
- Dem Race: Preparation vs. Inspiration - Pittsburgh PG - April 11, 2008
- To Have Been in the Room When - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - April 4, 2008
- What Can McCain Do Now? - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - March 21, 2008
- Infighting Risks Dems' Key Voters - Pitt Post-Gazette - March 14, 2008