Janet Napolitano and I hadn't planned to spend New Year's Eve together. But there we were on this soggy Thursday, sitting in her office on the out...
At our long-ago dinner, Limbaugh credited his success with being "one-dimensional." "I'm totally concerned with me," he said. And that was way before...
At a joint press conference Tuesday at the presidential palace in Kabul, Hamid Karzai surprised the usually unflappable Gates when he knocked down Pre...
William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.
Is it possible for women today to be independent, ambitious, successful career women and at the same time still be taken care of and "protected" by a partner?
It's Toxic Tom DeLay, aka The Exterminator, the unctuous little weasel now making a fool of himself (again) on ABC's dismal enterprise called Dancing With The Stars.
On issues of race, Obama will forever be either the man who healed the septic wound that runs across the back of this nation, or the man who turned away from the mirror to solve more "practical" issues.
The color of the President's skin does not matter to the lunatics dictating the direction of the Republican Party. I mean, it matters in that it's icing on the cake -- but they were baking regardless of all that.
The majority of people have never changed policy for good or ill. History proves this repeatedly, again and again throughout the centuries, in country after country. So, will history repeat itself yet again for ill?
Osama bin Laden, if that was him (doesn't matter if it was just a garden-variety US-hater), pointed out that the president is vulnerable. What did he mean?
On CNN Sunday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he didn't think the protests against the president are racially motivated. Host John Kin...
I tended to agree with some Obama advisers that Democratic presidents typically have provoked a frothing response from paranoids -- from Father Coughl...
Mischa Barton says she wound up in the loony bin because her teeth hurt, Dick Cheney says Obama is -- get this -- politicizing the Justice Department, and Maureen Dowd says bloggers can be so mean.
Women and girls need men and boys who are willing to articulate the injustice they see toward their mothers, sisters, daughters and wives.
Mr. CHENEY: Fear is our strongest political currency. I think of the wires connected to my heart, and the cold metal case in my chest keeping me alive. How can we make people afraid?
I'm not sure the man who popped off and tweeted that Sonia Sotomayor was a "Latina woman racist" is the best Henry Higgins for the Eliza Doolittle of...
Hillary can't win when in the Congo in a tizzy, she has to prove that she is busy... Running the affairs of State, and not the ex-pres who's her mate...
What makes Limbaugh's or Palin's call to right-wing shock troops any more cynical than the emails I get almost every morning from team Obama? Is cynicism merely in the eye of the beholder?
Ms. Clinton demonstrates that the new mode of leadership is just as much about generosity, and gifting a fellow player with a moment in the spotlight, as it is about seizing it for oneself.
Maureen Dowd phoned into the third day of "Way Too Early With Willie Geist" at 5:45 am on Wednesday. Dowd talked to Geist about her Palin column an...
The film exposes the depths of homophobia, transcending basic shock humor to capture the face of hatred.
You can't judge a judge by her cover. Despite the best efforts of Republicans to root out any sign that Sonia Sotomayor has emotions that color her...
Stay focused, ladies. Here is The Practical Guide to Help Spurned Political Wives Survive Old Problems in the Era of New Technology. 1. Skip the pres...
All they have to do, to win over millions, is keep doing the things that they're already doing only really embrace them. Voila! It's their "new brand!"
As in all great affairs, Mark Sanford fell in love simultaneously with a woman and himself -- with the dashing new version of himself he saw in her m...
