WASHINGTON — In the days following Barack Obama's address on race the other day in Philadelphia, there was broad agreement among politicians and journalists that "A More...
I would be a lot more worked up about getting Michigan and Florida delegates seated at the Democratic National Convention this summer if we were hearing a coherent econo...
WASHINGTON — For the third time since World War II, Americans are picking a new president amid sharp national divisions over a bloody, financially draining war in Asia.
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Marriage licenses. Divorce decrees. Death certificates.
The average adult American likely will have reason to request a copy of at least one of these in the course of a ...
WASHINGTON — The beauty of a speech is that you don't just give the answers, you provide your own questions. "Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered c...
Barack Obama is a magician.
He could tell me it's raining on a sunny day, and I'd grab an umbrella. He could tell me the moon is the sun, and I'd reach for my shades.
He...
Any realistic scenario in which Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the Democratic presidential nomination assumes that the party bosses will have both the will and the pow...
WASHINGTON — It was sheer coincidence that David M. Walker spent his last day Wednesday as comptroller general of the United States at the same time that the House and S...
WASHINGTON — Elections can be about policy, personality or identity. The race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is surely not about policy. The differences betwee...
WASHINGTON — The swift fall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer for patronizing a high-priced prostitution ring of the sort he once won fame for prosecuting leaves him unique...
