In June 2000, then-presidential candidate George W. Bush told reporters, according to CNN, that Al Gore was responsible for spiking oil prices. Gore, said the GOP man, "writes in a book that he thinks we ought to have higher fuel prices, and now that he's running for president and...

The received wisdom in the upcoming primary season is that the move toward early primaries and caucuses will mean the campaign's over after one or two days of voting. I'm not sure I buy it.

Yes, if Iowa, New Hampshire, the new early voting states of Nevada and South Carolina,...

Listening to NPR this morning, I heard a section on the ongoing fight between President Bush and the Congress about expanding SCHIP and providing health care coverage to more low-income kids.

There's something insane about the fact that a president who vetoed almost no spending bills in...

I've spent the past several days stunned by the size of the wildfires consuming much of California. I lived in San Diego during the last bout with disaster, in October 2003, and remember vividly the fear and claustrophobia one senses as the sky turns purple, ash rains down and the...

In January Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr. was sentenced by a military court in Fort Hood, Texas, to ten years behind bars. His crimes: assault, conspiracy, dereliction of duty and committing indecent acts.

Nearly a year after the infamous photographs of US military personnel abusing and...