John Edwards' sudden announcement of withdrawal from the presidential race is a huge surprise, with broad implications for the race, advocacy organizations and voters. Unlike Rudy Giuliani's Oceanic Airlines campaign crash-landing into the Gulf off the Florida Keys, John Edwards managed to struggle with the controls long enough to...

The hip trend for Presidential coverage these days is to hearken back to the citizen awareness around electoral politics that was prevalent during agrarian days -- citizen-farmers discussing the gold standard over their split-rail fences. Granted, a majority of the population wasn't allowed to vote, but still. Halcyon is halcyon....

Wednesday night, America's best and brightest Republicans put on their cleanest red underwear and strolled onto a St. Petersburg, Florida, stage, facing videotaped questions from normal Americans, like Grover Norquist. The debate was hosted by CNN's (extremely) fair-haired boy, Anderson Cooper.

One of the highest profile contests of...

Fox has developed a solid way to capitalize on the unparalleled journalistic respect it has earned: debuting a reality program about the hiring of a completely unqualified former WWE Diva and "Price is Right" model to anchor a news program in rural Texas.

Let me repeat that. Fox has extended...

At the pinnacle of my liberal, bleeding-hearted community conscientiousness, I helped to start a neighborhood association in a fairly affluent area of San Jose, California. Empower the citizenry! Dumpster days! That sort of thing.

After the first year of its existence, during which we had some fair semblance of success...

Californians are agog with discussion about term limits. Namely, Californians who have been elected to state office. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez is leading the charge to revise the term limit system. Mr. Nunez certainly doesn't have the same appreciation for term limits that I do.

Clearly, term limits have...

I must respectfully disagree with Ms. Huffington.

The fundamental mistake that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made is that he breached the core criterion of political life: maintaining loyalty. In politics, loyalty is paramount. Without loyalty, without the bond of trust that political partnerships engender, an elected official is...

There exists a stereotype about people who work in politics and who are not on the West Wing - that they are either hideous trolls that prey on the souls of the righteous, or that they are second-tier Abercrombie models whose sense of political history is shaped by Ivy League...