WASHINGTON — The combination of an over-rehearsed witness and opposition senators fighting without much ammunition robbed the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings of th...
It's easy to see why health-care reform is so hard.
Despite getting financial concessions from the hospital and pharmaceutical industries, the Obama administration spent...
WASHINGTON — Doubtless thousands of other women's ears perked up when Sen. Charles Schumer, introducing Sonia Sotomayor at Monday's confirmation hearing, mentioned the L...
WASHINGTON — President Obama's welcome home from his latest successful overseas trip is clouded by the growing doubts about his most important domestic initiative, the o...
The more federal court documents you read, the less optimistic you become about Rep. John Murtha's future in politics.
Murtha, D-Pa., is the powerful chairman of the Hou...
Congress and the president enacted a $787 billion fiscal stimulus package in February. Yet here it is July, and the desired effect on the economy has yet to be seen. Eve...
WASHINGTON — Economic policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of th...
Wars bookended — and, in the end, defined — the life of Robert Strange McNamara. His first memory was of the last day of World War I, the War to End All Wars. And his ro...
WASHINGTON — The sad tale of Michael Jackson will be retold a few thousand times more as autopsy reports and estate details emerge.
Meanwhile, the presumed verdict is th...
WASHINGTON — The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingeria...
