Did the Democrats invite Sophocles to the party in Denver? The scene wouldn't be complete without an ancient Greek dramatist in the house to capture the catharsis.

His Antigone is one grand gal, but has nothing on Hillary Clinton as a "game-changer." Silver-haired, sulky Bill Clinton, who presided over...

Lest we forget, George W. Bush is still president, the eldest son born to power and privilege by primogeniture.

We the people have exactly seven more months of his reign and believe me, he won't miss a day of making the republic a little more miserable. He is, after...

Hey, Hillary Clinton, there you were above the fold on the front page of the Sunday New York Times with Big Brown, your equine equivalent, also pictured on the page in color. And you looked like a winner, Senator.

Both Clinton and Big Brown were beautifully groomed and considered...

The June day that Robert F. Kennedy died, Barack Obama and I were six going on seven. In other words, we were children in the 1960s, not children of the 1960s. There is a vast world of difference.

Now 40 years after that cruel day in California,...

If Sen. Hillary Clinton calls up her foremothers in delivering her presidential campaign's last hurrah in New York tonight, she'll find inspiration in a stunning speech made by a Northeastern woman senator -- the only woman in the U.S. Senate on June 1, 1950.

That was when the cold...

It's a rare, riveting sight to see in Washington, one senator weeping for another on the august floor of the U.S. Senate. For me, it was even more extraordinary because the two, Sens. Robert C. Byrd and Edward Kennedy, are my two favorites out of one hundred.

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Simple truths are powerful. Here's one: the two presidents who mired us in unwinnable wars in modern times both hail from the same state of Texas. The Lone Star state has a lot to answer for.

Is it any accident that Lyndon B. Johnson and George W. Bush are...

Oh, do we remember the White House days when Hillary Clinton was first lady and changed her hairdo constantly -- you never knew what face of Hillary you were going to see on a given day.

On the 2008 presidential campaign trail, the stakes are much higher, but it's...

For Hillary Clinton, running for president means never having to say you're sorry.

We the people of this nation first got a hard look at this trait when it came to her vote authorizing the president to use force in the run-up to the Iraq invasion five...

A Sunday afternoon symphony concert in Baltimore seemed to set the table for Super Tuesday -- indeed, for the auspicious 2008 presidential election. It seemed the gang was all there, just when I thought I'd gone where they couldn't follow.

First there was Hillary Clinton running the show.

All the Capitol's a stage tonight, for the annual State of the Union speech, and all the congressmen and women are merely players. They know their cues, and how to clap for the president of the United States when he is royally announced as if the pageant was happening in...

Gender, race, age. In all the fuss this week about defining differences between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton as frontrunners in the Democratic presidential primary, age has got lost in the mix.

Age is a sleeper issue in the campaign, but it might get a wake-up call....

Two excellent German words nicely capture the New Hampshire night music when it came to the man the media loved to see up vs. the woman they love to see down.

When Sen. Hillary Clinton won the Democratic presidential primary contest over Sen. Barack Obama, the astonishment of the...

2008 looks like the year of the senator in the presidential election and thank goodness for that. Senators have the job skills needed now at the White House.

Who would have thought it? That cuts against the received Washington wisdom in the other Post, where pundits have solemnly stated...

She's prose, he's poetry. That's the real character issue at stake.

Political differences between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama seem small next to a starker contrast: the way they "use their words."

The Democratic frontrunners for the presidential nomination are both compelling communicators. Close political outcomes...