This isn't my first election, but still I woke up this morning with the kind of nerve-wracked excitement you get from a first day of school, a first marathon, a first date. As I will be a poll watcher later today, I had to wake up even earlier than I...

There is a lot of history to be talked about during this Democratic Convention. Senator Clinton ran the most successful campaign for president a woman has ever run. Senator Obama became the first African American to be nominated by a major party for the office of president. Tomorrow night,...

If I had a nickel every time Senator John McCain became even more of a hypocrite, I'd own more than one pair of $520 Ferragamo loafers.

"Congress should come back into session," Senator McCain said yesterday, trying to look tough while chivvying Senator Barack Obama to come...

When I read that the White House is protesting NBC's edits of an interview with President Bush, I unconsciously started to hum Alanis Morisette's iconic hit, "Ironic." The White House is accusing NBC of editing footage to give the impression that President Bush agreed to the supposition that his...

When the writer's strike was coming to a close, I (like most of America) was overjoyed by the idea of new episodes of Scrubs, 30 Rock and Grey's Anatomy. Moreover I relished the return of political satire (the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, SNL) that is an amalgamation of two...

As a society we put a lot of emphasis on first words. "When, in the course of human events" is an oft-cited line. "One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind," is another. And for you Charles Schulz fans - "It was a dark and stormy night." Parents...

The role willful ignorance has played in this campaign just reached critical mass.

It was bad enough when Senator Clinton said that she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia, but "fake it til you make it" is a risky strategy that has paid off in the past. It was worse...

I'm by no means a presidential historian, but even I know that President Truman is the one who popularized the term, "the buck stops here." It's something I've always respected about Truman, that he understood that as the chief (executive, commander-in) of the United States of America, he was the...