Monica Lewinsky

So here I am this afternoon paging through my soon-to-be-published Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House, for a reading I'm giving tonight.

And I find a quote that I forgot was in the book because it went to press before the Reverend Wright controversy erupted...

The morning after last Wednesday's ABC Clinton/Obama debate, Don Imus called Obama "almost a bigger pussy than she [Hillary] is."

Imus is not alone in seeming to want to give Obama, who indeed looked like a seething wimp, a shot of testosterone. The brother of...

The angry tone of this year's primary season reminds us of the deep partisan differences dividing the nation. Whether its Iraq or the economy, the two parties are far apart and show no signs of compromise. The moderate middle has disappeared.

There was a brief moment,...

It never occurred to me that the Monica Lewinsky Affair would be a part of this Presidential campaign, and I certainly never thought it would be brought up by Hillary Clinton. I was wrong. Without using Lewinsky's name, Senator Clinton alluded to the pain she went through because of Bill's...

As campaign politics in America lurches, zombie-like, deeper and deeper into the muck, with Hillary Clinton desperately flogging the Reverend Wright "scandal" in all its idiotic glory, it's time to study the true masters of smear-ology -- the supermarket tabloids. Here, in the sick, teeming id of America, tales of...

No one in American political history has squandered his reputation so wantonly, so publicly, and so quickly -- and in the pursuit of so little -- as Bill Clinton. As he desperately chases the impossible dream of a thousand more nights in a White House bed, he has laid bare...

Under pressure to reveal her precise contributions to the Clinton presidency, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky released her official White House schedule today.

Ms. Lewinsky hoped that in releasing the schedule she would put to rest nagging questions about her role in the Northern Ireland peace talks and the...

Barack Obama's church-related quandary is just the latest example of American politicians' perilous dance with religion. In a presidential campaign infused like never before with the candidates' efforts to sell their religious beliefs as best-fitting an illusory mainstream, Obama hasn't quite pulled it off, although he is in a far...

We begin not with Eliot Spitzer, but with a small history lesson. From the Civil War, two otherwise unremarkable Union Generals (militarily, both are known for their spectacular defeats) who obviously detested each other: Ambrose Burnside and Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker. Here is Burnside on Hooker, who served under him:...

The other night, my dear friend L. wrote:

Beth / You just have to begin reading Andrew Sullivan's blog regularly. He is obsessed by Hillary, having started, like you, as a Clinton fan. He writes brilliantly, and he is so angry! L.

Sullivan's current piece...

Much has been written recently about Hillary Clinton's ability to manage a crisis and she and her surrogates regularly tout her vast experience in this area. These bona fides were recently questioned in a Chicago Tribune piece. Here's what I learned when I read it: Yes, she was peripherally...

Hillary Clinton refuses to release her tax returns (which the Obamas have done long ago) and when the Obama campaign brought this fact up the Clinton campaign compared Obama's legitimate request that she release her returns to Kenneth Starr's inquest into the Clintons of the 1990s. The Clinton campaign brought...

John McCain's repeated flat denials of any romantic or otherwise improper involvement with lobbyist Vicki Iseman have sent the stakes of this scandal soaring. No longer does he have to have just been faithful to his wife. In order for his integrity to hold, he's also got to be vindicated...

It is so easy to do and so many do. I'm referring to the Clinton opponents, as well as commentator critics who invariably lapse into snarky remarks about Bill and Hillary's marital past. When all else fails, make some sly reference to the shenanigans and melodrama that dominated the headlines...

Sisterhood's a bitch, isn't it? A friend e-mailed me recently as we wrestled with the vexing feminist question in the race for the Democratic nomination. She asked "am I a bad feminist if I don't vote for Hillary?" I shot back an estrogen-powered fusillade of arguments that began "No! SHE'S...