Swine flu politics is back. It helped claim the career of a president more than 30 years ago.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
What is striking is how often the media gets it wrong when measuring up new presidents. Journalists should approach judging a president's first 100 days with some humility.
Jim Selman | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
What should be done about the despicable and unjustified actions of people who, in the name of National Security and following directions from higher authorities, committed these acts?
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.09.2009 | Style
Happy 91st birthday, Betty Ford! Known for her ardent work in drug addiction and eponymous rehab facility, Ford's tenure as first lady lasted from 1...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics
We have yet to hear a single realistic scenario from a top Republican that would outline how and when the country could move forward from its current meltdown.
Michael DeJong | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
Presidents come in various shapes and sizes, ages, disciplines and principles. But what many of them seem to have in common is their unwavering obsession with cleanliness...literally or figuratively.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Until today, I had only known two kinds of presidents, those who I really didn't like and those who I tolerated. Obama is something different, a president who I actually believe in.
Jill Brooke | Posted 02.16.2009 | Living
As a child of divorce, Obama is more likely to be sensitive to policies that protect children and more likely to make family health care coverage a priority, since many divorced women lose their coverage.
Geri Spieler | Posted 02.04.2009 | Politics
The woman was Sara Jane Moore. There were two significant Secret-Service-related reasons that she was free to stand on that sidewalk that afternoon, gun in hand.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics
"I feel very good about a lot of the things we've done in this administration," Cheney told Chris Wallace in a Fox News interview this past weekend.
Brian Ross | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics
For all of his attempts to be a major force in history, it would not be Nixon's meetings with the Russians that would put his imprint on the office, but his dirty tricks and criminal activity.
Jeff Madrick | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
Eisenhower: 2 recessions; Nixon and Ford: 2 recessions; Reagan: 1 recession; George H.W. Bush: 1 recession; George W. Bush: 2 recessions; Democrats: 1 recession. Eight to one, you decide.
Steve Clemons | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
There is a strong chance that Lawrence Summers is going to be returned to the post of Secretary of the Treasury. Larry will have to prove to us that he is different and not the harbinger of Clinton Term III.
Lynne Glasner | Posted 12.06.2008 | Home
Obama's victory ends the nightmare of the last eight years of the Bush Era, during which time the rule of law has taken a back seat to self-interest and aggrandizement of power.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
The current charges against ACORN are frivolous distractions from what is a massive and threatening GOP campaign to distort the popular vote in key battleground states.
David Lucht | Posted 11.20.2008 | Home
There may be good reasons to vote the Republican ticket, but the hope that John McCain will bring change to Washington cannot be counted as one of them.
Lance Simmens | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
We have become a wistful electorate, intoxicated by the elixir of irresponsibility that I can only guess traces back to the gee-whiz, by golly folksiness of Gerry Ford.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
By Stephen C. Rose Presidents defy categorization by their decisions. Which renders exceedingly silly the idea that it makes a real difference whic...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
If McCain can create enough doubt about who's really to blame, and convince voters that he can reverse the economic free fall as well as Obama, the election again may not be about the economy.
John Lundberg | Posted 10.01.2008 | Living
Presidential nomination acceptance speeches surely aim to create great quotes, not to repeat them. So I should have figured that when I went digging ...
Jackson Williams | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
Let's strip Bush and Cheney of our hard-earned tax dollars, without gloat or bloodlust, then quickly move on. It's the least we can do. They've more than earned it.
Jeffrey Kluger | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media
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.
New York Daily News | TRACY CONNOR | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
Newsweek | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Nixon: "A member of the Clinton administration once was accusing Nixon of anti-Semitism, and I said, 'You don't understand. He wasn't exclusively anti...
Craig Crawford | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics