F. Scott Fitzgerald famously uttered "there are no second acts in American lives" but bless his heart, the besotted scribe seems blissfully unaware of the loophole large enough to taxi a C- 130 through that exists for American politicians.
Washington intern Chandra Levy disappeared in May 2001, launching an investigation that gripped the nation -- especially when Chandra's father alleged...
New information has surfaced in the murder case of a 24-year-old former congressional intern, who disappeared in 2001 amid reports that she had been h...
WASHINGTON -- Chad Condit, the son and chief public defender of a former high-profile California congressman once tarnished in a media frenzy, has now...
Although political scandals date to the country's earliest days, attention to sex-related wrongdoing in Congress began in earnest in the 1970s. Here a...
A decade after the slaying of Capitol Hill intern Chandra Levy, the public's fascination with her murder endures. The case, which shocked the nation a...
The guilty verdict and 60 year sentence to Chandra Levy's killer this month brought a measure of closure and justice not only to Levys family and former representative Gary Condit, but also local journalism in the nation's capitol.
My apologies to anyone tuning in who was expecting to see the 150th "Friday Talking Points" column, since it will be pre-empted for two weeks here. B...
In a law office in an upscale section of Los Angeles, an unfinished yet potentially explosive book manuscript by a controversial figure, former U.S. R...
In 2001, when 24 year-old Chandra Levy disappeared from her home in Washington, D.C., the media went into a frenzy about whether congressman Gary Cond...
For a country desperate for good news, the now-deflated "balloon boy" spectacle would seem to be the perfect tonic. As Wolf Blitzer of CNN summed up t...
As 2009 ends, the Huffington Post is taking a look back at one of the recurring themes of the past decade -- embarrassing political sex scandals. Whic...
Perhaps not. Jackson's early passing is a perfect globalized mass media storm, as it combines Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll with a healthy dose of those two basic staples of the American story: Race & Money.
A suspect finally was arrested in the Chandra Levy murder - and it wasn't Gary Condit.
But don't look for any expressions of celebration or vindicati...
What depresses me about Law & Order is not that they expeditiously solve crimes every week through meticulous sleuthing. It's that real law enforcement, crime labs, and investigatory agencies virtually never get things right.