For those alive in 1963 this month casts a shadow of sadness as we recall where we were on November 22 when we heard about the president's assassination.

In the escalating political climate of ugliness, division, disregard for educational opportunity, and religious unrest and confusion, a new book has ...

Thanksgiving week is a milestone for Barack Obama, but not one that many are likely to commemorate. The president who seemed poised to inherit John F....

We can read about the carnage of war in A Farewell to Arms, and the power of great aspirations in For Whom the Bell Tolls, and consider what each of us can do in our times by remembering what Ernest Hemingway and so many others did in theirs.

President Obama is the most Kennedyesque president we've had since John F. Kennedy. Once upon a time, this was a great asset. That no longer looks to be the case.

Why, 50 years after the fact, did official Washington celebrate the inauguration of a most imperfect man who served less than one term as president, a...

Phase III: Obama Strikes Back. The Republicans are still leaderless and teabaggers have hung up their Lipton for the winter. Meanwhile, two-thirds of Americans still want health care reform.

With the beautiful Kennedy brothers now all at rest, the high principles, steady hand and well-earned sweat of their life's work will never be lost and never will die.

Against his family history Senator Ted Kennedy never wavered from his profound commitment to public service, of his consuming desire to serve America and the public interest.

I live in France where we already have a people-izing of government with the President marrying an ex-model just three months after his divorce and li...

It's time for reporters covering this story to dispense with the navel gazing and to get started vetting Ms. Kennedy's ideas and positions.

I covered the Kennedy for President campaign in 1980 and the convention in New York that year. The parallels to this year's Democratic campaign are striking.