Right after September 11th, with New York and the country reeling under the destruction of the Twin Towers and the loss of three thousand lives, Rudy Giuliani suggested that the election to choose the next mayor be postponed so he could stay in office and continue to run the city.

A central part of Machiavelli's teaching, and a leading principal of current political commentary, is the notion that we need to take men - and not just men, but women, too - not as we wish them to be, but as they really are. It is important to keep this...

In 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held seven debates in Illinois to help determine which of them would be elected to the United States Senate. Each debate lasted three hours. The one who went first spoke for an hour, the other one for an hour and a half,...

Borders, which started out as single store in Ann Arbor selling books to students and other serious readers and became an international chain selling whatever the market would bear, has experienced a nine percent decline in sales and is looking for someone to buy it. Whatever satisfaction independent bookstores might...

Americans have always had a certain fondness for the likeable scoundrel, the good-natured swindler, the one who cheats at cards, but only if you are not playing for too much; the one who would sleep with your wife, but only if your marriage was already over or he was certain...

Her voice dripping with sarcasm, her eyes full of anger and contempt, Hillary Clinton attacked Barack Obama in Ohio for thinking that he could unite the country and that this would lead to anything good: "The skies will clear, the sun will shine, a celestial chorus will be heard...