This is more than you really need to know about me, but I haven't been sleeping well lately--jet lag, the economy, the heat, the world, not to mention the various quotidian irritations of my own little life. In the wide-awake wee hours of the morning, I've discovered reruns of The...

The most fascinating marriage in the history of the world has got to be James Carville and Mary Matalin. I'm mildly interested in the governor and first lady of California too, but the Shriver/Schwarzenegger alliance seems less unholy, with a modicum of common ground, while Carville and Matalin take the...

Last weekend I went to Allentown, Pennsylvania, to register new voters and talk about the Obama/Biden ticket with people who'd been identified as undecided in this election. The four other campaign volunteers in my carpool from New Jersey all seemed emblematic of the difficult times so many people are experiencing:...