The Democratic Leadership Council, a nonprofit "idea center" founded during the Reagan years that now counts most of the high-profile Democratic Party leaders among its members, has worked for decades to move the party to the center of the political spectrum, succeeding during the presidency of Bill Clinton, who...

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Americans dropped a few baton handoffs in races they were expected to win. Today, the Clintons made sure that Obama got the handoff. Putting their considerable skills behind the newly minted Obama/Biden twofer, they slowly unfurled their acquiescence on their own terms,...

When last we saw Captain Clinton, she was traversing rough waters. Her crew was in full mutiny mode. Her First mate was on the bow, railing at the fickle seas and the cruel fates that had buffeted their ship of state for many a moon. The body politic...

The stars strode beneath a massive prop resembling the "mothership" from Close Encounters of the Third Kind for the first scene of the 2008 Democratic Convention. Then, with a strong R&B beat in the background, they made their way to stand in front of a tightly scripted teleprompter. As they...

DENVER -- Thunderheads roiled the Rockies surrounding D'Town. Surging through the 16th Street mall came the massed and masked desperadoes, demanding an end to the war and the empire. Closely watched and nervously corralled by every conceivable form of police and paramilitary squad on the alert for reported low-tech weapons...