WASHINGTON — The celebration of Barack Obama's victory was genuine and heartfelt, as it should have been. No one who has lived in this country and knows its history can ...
We almost had a really interesting conversation about taxes in the waning days of the election. Almost.
To the surprise of few, it was discovered that Barack Obama favor...
After he had been president for nearly two years, John F. Kennedy sat down in his Oval Office rocking chair one December day and answered questions on all three of the b...
The biggest loser in this 2008 election is obvious even before the first vote has been counted: conventional wisdom. Remember last year when Hillary Rodham Clinton was c...
Even though Democrats have a doomsday mentality ("how are we gonna lose this time?"), many are now daring to believe that Barack Obama might actually win Tuesday. And th...
The end of oil is imagined as a time of tightening — of air travel only for the rich and no more cheap bananas from Ecuador. An Ecotopia life with windmills and electric...
When it has come to Iraq and the presidential campaign, the debate has swirled mostly around withdrawal.
But a funny thing has happened as the current economic tempest h...
WASHINGTON — It is hard to imagine that "undecideds," like restless phantoms with unfinished business, still haunt these final hours.
What can they be waiting for? An ep...
WASHINGTON — Last week I made the open-and-shut case for John McCain: In a dangerous world entering an era of uncontrolled nuclear proliferation, the choice between the ...
WASHINGTON — Women, not men, will save the world.
First lady Laura Bush didn't say those precise words, but her remarks Monday to a small gathering of biographers, histo...
