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Americans will soon vote in one of the most important elections in the nation's history. And it will not involve Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or John McCain.

This is the reality of American "exceptionalism," a unique form of divided powers in which a president is the nation's "head of...

Donald Trump take note: apparently John McCain is running for Miss America.

In a big speech in Columbus, McCain tells us that he hopes that all our troops will be coming home in 2013. A currently non-existent League of Democracies will be handling Darfur and Al Qaeda will be...

Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and...

Previously, on "18 Questions From Congressional Republicans":

--"For some reason I happen to be on the mailing list of the National Republican Congressional Committee."
--"18...questions they just sent me..."
--"'our nation's position on marriage...'"
--"'victory...in passing a law banning partial-birth abortions...'"
--"'...moral, family,...

"We're going to give you the change you deserve" --

That's not a threat; it's a promise -- from the Republican congressional leaders. Really. Led by perpetually tanned House leader John Boehner, Republicans have suddenly discovered that the country wants change -- and they have...

George Bush's approval rating among Democrats is 1%. Among Republicans it's 67%. And among Independents it's 14%, according to the American Research Group poll last April. Every other poll shows substantially the same partisan disparity. News outlets talk about Bush's approval levels approaching "Nixonian" levels, but they shy away...

The winds of change have brought Democrats a big advantage in the races for the White House, U.S. House and Senate in 2008. The opportunity for the emergence of a governing Democratic majority is unprecedented.

Democrats have the Republicans to thank for this historic opening in 2008. The...

Now that the general election battle lines are being clarified, I have a tip for the Democratic candidate: TALK MORE ABOUT EDUCATION.

The struggling economy may be the issue that voters say is most on their minds, but speaking truth about education never fails to stimulate a sea of emphatic...

Anyone who has read my many pro-Obama essays on the Huffington Post knows that I believe that Senator Obama will make a great president. They also know that I've been less than kind to Senator Clinton. Clinton's supporters have responded with their comments.

Those of us who voted for Obama...

The Republican Party, as every schoolchild knows, has by now degenerated from a quasi-aristocratic affinity group of Rotarian strivers and upper-crust coupon-clippers, into a wild-eyed cult, fully marinating in denial and mendacity, in which the very rich exploit the very credulous for the purposes of promoting corporate dominance in the...

Yesterday's headlines and news teasers swore that the Indiana and North Carolina set of primaries could truly change the game for the Democratic presidential nomination, but alas, it looks like the battle continues.

Forget the superdelegates, says actor John Leguizamo. There's a quicker and less painful solution to choosing the...

Especially at a time when the recent release of photographs of Hiroshima's aftermath by an unknown Japanese photographer reminds us that nuclear weapons are not intended for use on armed forces, but civilians.

"'Everywhere you turn, you hear it,' said Savannah businessman Ed Feiler."

What, that Clinton will...

As a life-long Republican--recently re-registered as an independent--and as a former sidekick to my late evangelical right wing father Francis Schaeffer, until I dropped out of the fundamentalist ghetto in the mid 80s and started writing fundamentalist-baiting funny (to me anyway) novels such as "Portofino," and as someone who once...

If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news?

So do I. Any event of this magnitude would be the lead story on every evening news broadcast in the nation....

In his new ad about his Bush-style no care health care "plan", John McCain identifies himself on screen as "President McCain". I guess we just decided to call off the election and have George Bush designate his successor just like that?

It's a paradox: the political center has clearly shifted; what used to be considered "left wing" positions have now become part of the mainstream, and the views of the Right are now at odds with the majority of the American public -- and with reality.

Yet, despite this seismic...

Were Hillary Clinton the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have had this thing wrapped up in, say, Iowa, or a couple of weeks after that. Her inability to dispatch a presidential neophyte such as Barack Obama in a Democratic primary is precisely because, after...