So for all that cash (billions) spent to fund all that campaigning (relentless) and all those ads (millions), what do we get? The same president, the same party running ...
WASHINGTON — It’s still about jobs. What will determine the core success of President Obama’s second term is progress — or the lack thereof — in reducing long-term unemp...
Second terms have rarely been kind to American presidents.
Our last two-term leader, George W. Bush, ended his tenure with a financial crash so disastrous that his own p...
No one should be surprised that the presidential election has been so close. For weeks, opinion polls have told us it would be.
Now that Election Day is done, there is n...
If you’re in Beijing this week, there are some things that you may not find. Balloons or ping-pong balls, CNN on the TV in your hotel workout room, taxi windows that rol...
Even as Sandy underwent its bizarre metamorphosis from hurricane to winter storm, the question arose in many inquiring minds (at least those not beholden to a solemn oat...
For this voter, it’s been a discouraging campaign.
The trouble we’re in is big, but the candidates both seem small to me, though in different ways.
Do you recognize thes...
Truth took a holiday this election season as the candidates plumped themselves up and tried to stick a needle in their opponents. Nothing new there, of course. But the h...
Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney say their candidacies in Tuesday’s election reject the past to provide a brighter future.
More specifically, Romney rejects the course ...
WASHINGTON — As America votes, what can be said about this nasty campaign is that it was dangerously disconnected from the actual problems the victor will face. The text...
