What a shame.
Congress last week missed one of those rare chances to change how we think about the way the world works. It happened when the House and Senate passed a fi...
America, long bifurcated into the red and the blue, is increasingly variegated. We have Oregon greenies and Kentucky coal miners, white-collar Obama elites and Clinton's...
WASHINGTON — Not since the day almost 45 years ago, when word reached Washington that his brother John had been cut down in Dallas, has there been news about an individu...
Chivalry is still charming, as Barack Obama proved when he recently warned Tennessee Republicans to leave his wife alone.
He was commenting on a GOP Web ad that highligh...
With food prices soaring, it takes some gall to force Americans to pay billions of dollars to millionaire agribusinesses. Yet that's what the latest farm bill would do.
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Barack Obama is like a shot of Botox. Support him, and you take 10 years off your face. You join the cool crowd. You become one with idealistic kids and Hollywood glitte...
WASHINGTON — One way of measuring the current miserable state of the Republican Party is to note that in the past 10 weeks, 55 years of Republican seniority in the House...
What will it take to pierce the thick-as-cornhusk shield of the farm lobby?
Farmers are enjoying record-high prices for crops. Farm income has risen 56 percent over the ...
WASHINGTON — Well, at least they didn't kiss.
I was bracing myself for the lip lock Wednesday when John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nom...
BILOXI, Miss. — Ten years ago, when I was in college, the United States had a glorious economy, gas was pretty cheap, and because the American dollar stomped the Canadia...
