There are few fields in which the increasingly sophisticated science of simplexity -- the study of the way simple things can be improbably complex, and complex things can be brilliantly simple -- applies more powerfully than in politics.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
I regret never having met Robert Hartmann, the close aide to Gerald Ford who died last week -- he was one of the classic, colorful characters in White...
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
It was a classic gaffe that, if caught, would have turned last Tuesday's debate and maybe would have pushed Obama into a downward spiral from which he...
Steve Clemons | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics
Assessing the greatest and worst presidents is a process fraught with problems and subjective bias.
Peter Smith | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
Deciding who gets pardons and who gets left twisting in the wind should be a job for a team of tough, seasoned experts.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
If you're going to be a true vice president, after all, you ought to have some vice to show for it.
Dan Agin | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
In politics, we don't remember enough. We forget how much of American political history is a history of con-men selling us "snake oil."
New York Daily News | TRACY CONNOR | Posted 10.28.2007 | Politics
Gerald Ford was disturbed by Bill Clinton's skirt-chasing ways - and thought he should check into a sex addiction clinic. A new book on the late 38th...
Martin Lewis | Posted 10.28.2007 | Politics
We can be sympathetic that Reagan suffered from a terrible disease, impressed with his courage facing it and respectful of his family's bravery in dealing with it -- and STILL be honest.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
We asked political observers -- including Nora Ephron, Peggy Noonan, Harry Shearer, Conrad Black, Richard Belzer, David Frum, Paul Slansky, and Joe and Jerry Long -- to weigh in on the question: Who was our most comical president?
Newsweek | Posted 09.15.2007 | Home
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Jeffrey Kluger | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media