The biggest surprise of the debate was the shared diffidence on the topic du jour — the Wall Street bailout plan. Neither candidate would give moderator Jim Lehrer a str...
Seven years ago this month, we watched two New York City skyscrapers disintegrate before our very eyes.
An enemy, using commercial jetliners as missiles, had attacked us...
John McCain is still keeping running mate Sarah Palin far away from reporters and their pesky questions. In New York last week, Palin hobnobbed with foreign leaders and ...
WASHINGTON — If at one time women were considered heretical for swimming upstream against feminist orthodoxy, they now face condemnation for swimming downstream — away f...
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson went to Capitol Hill seeking $700 billion. He got an earful. Now, $700 billion is a serious sum, and Congress has the fiduc...
For weeks, Barack Obama's campaign has been trumpeting the fact that John McCain has agreed with President Bush 90 percent of the time.
There is a commercial that shows ...
The campaign trail seemed a universe away from Southern Methodist University's John Tower Center last week, where Andy Card and Mack McLarty held forth for more than an ...
I understood the Bush administration's decision to promise up to $30 billion to facilitate the fire sale of Bear Stearns. I got the administration's decision to spend as...
WASHINGTON — Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Ob...
Enough about Sarah Palin. What about John McCain? What does McCain think of Palin?
There's no question that the Alaska governor has been a huge energizing asset to McCai...
