Watching Republicans in the House of Representatives misuse Congressional hearings in their partisan campaign to attack former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign, it looks as though Republicans believe that happy days are here again. What is equally shameful is that many in the major...

House Republicans are misusing taxpayer money and abusing House committee rules to promote a partisan vendetta against President Obama and the woman who has earned the stature of being the most admired political leader in America, and a stateswoman who is widely admired around the world: former Secretary of State...

In my last column I warned Republicans that their intense antipathy toward President Obama is destroying the legacy of Lincoln and the GOP brand while hurting America.

Now here comes National Review, pumping a potential 2016 presidential candidacy of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and attacking the immigration bill,...

What did Hispanics do to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to deserve such punitive treatment from him on immigration? What did Texans do to Cruz and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to deserve their deliberately keeping federal judgeship posts in Texas vacant for partisan reasons, as I stated in my...

I wish the entire Bush family well and am pleased that the former presidents are sharing the opening of the Bush presidential library.

But, as I wrote in my last column for The Hill calling for confirmation of all judicial nominations, it was President Bush and Karl Rove...

I am a Democrat in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy.

Democrats have won so many recent national elections in part because we were viewed as protecting Medicare and Social Security, while Republicans lost those elections in part because they were viewed as threatening these programs. One reason...

In my last column I suggested there is a convergence of interest between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Democrats in Congress.

Today I suggest that pay equity for women could influence the political future of America. This includes turning Texas blue, especially because the entire Texas Republican...

There is a powerful and profound convergence of interest between Team Obama, Team Clinton and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate.

The prime directive for the leadership strata of Democrats in Washington and the Democratic base nationally is clear and well understood by most national political players, if not...

Hillary Clinton has taken a commanding position in national politics, and as I wrote in my latest column, it would be spectacular if Bill and Hillary Clinton would work with the Clinton Global Initiative to devise major new jobs proposals.

Meanwhile, both parties should be embarrassed by the...

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was having dinner with friends and offered a bet that he could write a story of six words that would make people cry. His friends reportedly put their money on the table and Hemingway wrote down his story, which was:

"For sale, baby shoes,...

Today in Washington a great battle is unfolding between Republicans preparing to filibuster the nomination of Richard Cordray to lead the new consumer protection agency and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who is battling to save the agency from these Republican attacks.

In my latest column in The Hill...

The ubiquitous opiner Justice Antonin Scalia now insults Hispanics and blacks, as he recently insulted gays while voting rights and gay rights are pending before the court. Then the ubiquitous Dick Morris, sounding like Fredo Corleone, offers a plan to "take down" President Obama. Has Morris read the Ryan budget?...

Nothing is more important to "equal justice under law" than an unelected, life-tenured judiciary respecting the fact and appearance of impartiality in a system of separation of powers, checks and balances, and one person, one vote. With important electoral decisions involving repeat offenders against fair elections in Alabama and Texas...

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy recently made an important and wise comment when he said that with gridlock plaguing our political system, "A democracy should not be dependent for its major decisions on what nine unelected people from a narrow legal background have to say." Considering the controversial...

With the jobless rate at nearly 8 percent and the real jobless rate nearly double that; with our national GDP between zero percent and 2 percent over the last two quarters; with Europe continuing its painful recession while continuing on a grotesquely ill-advised austerity push; with child homelessness and poverty...

I agree with George Will about as often as the Boston Red Sox agree with the New York Yankees, but as the law of broken clocks suggests, we must both be right at least twice a day. Will has recently suggested that conservatives should consider joining the effort to "break...

On the matters of quality television, Al Gore and Current TV, I think of the great movie line from Marlon Brando: "I could have been a contender." Gore could have been. In the end, he was not.

We now learn that Gore and Co. sold Current TV to Al Jazeera....

The latest endorsement received by former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense comes from four former national security advisers: Brent Scowcroft, James L. Jones, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Frank Carlucci. This quartet of national security leaders has served presidents of both parties, including Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and...

My last column, "The NRA and the USA," was an olive branch I, for one, extended with respect and hope that the National Rifle Association would follow through on its promise to help protect the children of America from more mass murders as our outraged nation witnessed in...

Let's do this for the beautiful girls and boys of Newtown, whose happy smiles, wide eyes, caring hearts, and loving souls will never again warmly hug the families that love them or joyously open the presents that await them, as the nation that mourns them and loves them begins heartfelt...