Mary Ann Akers

Even though he still eats ham sandwiches and prays to Jesus, it looks like Sen. George Allen will be reaching for a Hebrew National hot dog (after sundown, of course) this Monday, on Yom Kippur.

Allen has postponed a long scheduled hearing for Monday, all because he's "newly Jewish," as...

The exceedingly intense rivalry between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Charles Schumer (N.Y.) embroiled just about everybody in the Senate Democratic leadership Tuesday, including Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and his spokeswoman.

Apparently, Clinton and her staff felt snubbed when party leaders organized a news conference in which they...

Like father like son, young Euan Blair, the British prime minister's eldest boy, seems more comfortable with Republicans than Democrats these days. The 22-year-old Blair completed his internship on Capitol Hill for GOP Rep. David Dreier but bailed out early on California Democratic Rep. Jane Harman. Democrats are calling the...

From the author's Roll Call column, Heard on the Hill.

In the irony-on-steroids category, guess who was defending his graduate thesis on Congressional ethics Monday? Cover your eyes and guess, then sit down for the answer.

It was Michael Scanlon. Yes, that Michael Scanlon, the one who has pleaded...

Forget about the White House shakeup, Karl Rove testifying before a grand jury, the administration's firing of a CIA agent for allegedly leaking classified information or the fight over hideously high gas prices. The real story this week was about the Bush twins, damnit! And this time, they weren't even...