One of the most talked about concepts for the American foreign policy community lately is the notion that the United States should organize a concert of democracies or "League of Democracies" to help reorder the world. This idea has been put forth both by Democrats, including such figures as...

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Here we go again. Stomp on Hillary for winning.

Last night Hillary Clinton picked up the sixth big state out of the seven the Democrats need to win the fall presidential contest. Obama has only...

It has come to this -- even the acidic Maureen Dowd is showing a sneaking admiration for Hillary Clinton. In a column in Wednesday's New York Times, Dowd recognizes for the first time the tenacity and indominability of Hillary Clinton in this year's presidential race. Calling her a "scrappy...

Senator Hillary Clinton adroitly reinforced her foreign policy credentials on Monday with a speech at George Washington University in which she outlined how she would end the Iraq war and withdraw US troops. Her address provided the most comprehensive, reality-based and practical-minded set of steps that so far anybody in...

There is no rule in the politics of Democratic Party conventions that says that the contender with the largest number of pledged delegates short of the total required for nomination should automatically, by dint of that achievement, be handed the party's designation. This argument is now being put forth by...

What was astonishing about last night's debate was that the very bias which the Clinton campaign has frequently complained about against her candidacy and in favor of Obama's campaign was once again plainly and unashamedly in evidence. It was embodied in the way Tim Russert, an angry scowl on his...

In the remaining Democratic presidential primaries, voters are blessed with two candidates who are smart, energetic and forward-looking. Nonetheless the residents of states like Wisconsin, Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania still have to decide between the two of them who will be the most qualified starting on the first day in...

We are a day away from Super Tuesday. If you are thinking about voting for Barack Obama, consider whether he is the best candidate to go toe to toe with John McCain in the Fall election. Let's look at the attack line that McCain would undoubtedly use...

The media constantly berates the presidential candidates for not telling us enough of where they stand on the crucial issues of the day. Well, in yesterday's Democratic Presidential debate in Los Angeles (1/31/08), Hillary Clinton brought up once again one of her most important pieces of legislation currently in Congress...

It is interesting to read the op-ed piece in Tuesday's Los Angeles Times (Jan 29, 2008) written by three of Robert Kennedy's children -- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Kerry Kennedy, endorsing the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. The match-up of RFK's offspring with Hillary Clinton is,...

This week's Nation magazine is running a piece by the head of its intern program, Max Fraser, in which he suggests that the economic advisors who are assisting Senator Obama's campaign are helping him stake out a position on the subprime lending crisis 'to the right of not only...

What Hillary Clinton's victories in New Hampshire and Nevada have demonstrated beyond any doubt is that her husband has been a helpmate not a hindrance to her campaign. Despite media criticism that the former president was acting too angry or too petulant during his campaigning in both states for Hillary,...

Yesterday Hillary Clinton announced a proposal to deal with the increasing economic frailty of our country. She advocated a $70 billion emergency spending package and a back-up of a $40 billion tax rebate if economic conditions worsened. Her proposal was serious, substantive and measured. It was a direct attempt to...

There are a number of weaknesses in the Obama candidacy that make his effort seem both inadequate and even perilous for the Democratic Party and ultimately for the country.

First is the effort by the candidate to portray himself foremost as a conciliator. What Democrats want today is a...

My brother Andrew and I edited the journals of our father, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., covering the years from 1952-2000 which were published in October by Penguin under the title, Journals. My father's intimate recollections of those times and of its larger-than-life American political personalities earned extraordinary praise. The New...

Barack Obama is a likeable, thoughtful and intelligent young man and is a solid liberal voice in the US Senate. However, as his campaign proceeds, it is increasingly evident that he is not yet ready for promotion to the presidency. He has run his race on the basis of being...

The Friday, November 16th editorial page of the New York Times demonstrates why this newspaper these days remains the most important organ of opinion in the country. In three hard-hitting editorials, the paper gave expression, in unvarnished, well-argued, and concisely-honed paragraphs, to outrage over the shameful behavior of the Bush...

At the United Nations last Tuesday, after six years in office, Bush was saying hello when everybody else was saying goodbye. With sixteen months to go in his tenure, he delivered a speech in which he suddenly called the UN "this great institution". He said, "The United States is...

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has a well-honed arsenal of tricks he uses during his campaigns -- but especially in his encounters with Hillary Clinton. For example, in the midst of his aborted senatorial race against Ms. Clinton in 2000, the mayor attacked the Brooklyn Museum of Art for...

It seems to me that the Iraqi situation is a relatively straightforward repeat of our Vietnam dilemma -- namely, just the way our soldiers served as the only security upholding a series of corrupt South Vietnamese regimes over a decade, our troops in Iraq have been the only force propping...