Dec. '09 Obama Poll Watch -- Below Fifty, But Stabilizing
It's time once again for Obama Poll Watch -- our monthly look back at Obama's approval ratings for the previous month.
It's time once again for Obama Poll Watch -- our monthly look back at Obama's approval ratings for the previous month.
Charles H. Green | Posted 12.21.2009 | Business
A sex scandal? To be sure. A public relations debacle? You betcha. But what does it tell us about trust?
AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The National Archives is bringing together investigators to search for scribbled secrets from the first days of the Watergate scand...
Judith M. Bardwick | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
I'm not on anyone's list to receive emails or blogs or even solicitations for money from extremely right wing, politically conservative organizations ...
Carol Orsborn | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
In light of the deteriorating Consumer Confidence Index, Wall Street should worry less about Boomers' level of consumer confidence and more about our degree of consumer denial.
Murray Fromson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media
On March 7, 1965, Jack and I met for the first time, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, Alabama, he reporting for the Times and I for CBS News.
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Some have said that the two party system is what makes us strong. They say it helps create a balance of power with one side keeping tabs on the other...
Ann Beeson | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York
Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean discuss the Pentagon Papers 30 years later, Eric Holder, torture prosecutions, and whether public opinion matters.
Washington Post | Eugene Robinson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Anyone who watched Wednesday night as President Obama explained his health-care reform proposals to Congress saw a chief executive making what sounded...
Byron Williams | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Van Jones' transition from outside activist to inside political player wasn't as easy as it may appear. As an activist, the First Amendment protects Jones, but inside-the-Beltway politics is played by different rules.
Washington Independent | Daphne Eviatar | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on "Face the Nation" Sunday that -- like most Republicans and even some Democrats, including some in the president's c...
Beth Arnold | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
I discovered that I'd misjudged Ted Kennedy. I hope that now I would have the wisdom to confer more compassion on any and all in tragic circumstances.
Tom Hayden | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
The president will miss Ted Kennedy's wisdom amidst all the current preening and chattering in the newest ranks of the best and the brightest.
Jim Selman | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
Is there still time to recover and restore American Democracy to its bare essentials -- a government "of the people, by the people and for the people"? I don't know. Today we are on the brink.
William Bradley | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
The "Manchurian Candidate" fantasy is alive and well in Republican ranks. And is it a long-term problem that they are largely opposed to the first black president and first brown Supreme Court justice?...You bet.
Jim Selman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living
We somehow looked beyond color, religion, education, class, income and all the other things we've used to separate us from each other.
Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
What was said during the 18 1/2-minute gap in Nixon's Watergate tapes?
Mother Jones | —Adam Matthews | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
ON JUNE 20, 1972, President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, met in Nixon's hideaway office at the Old Executive Office Buil...
Karen Ocamb | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
Cronkite was so important because he was about the only person in this intensely divided America that both sides could trust. He was our no-frills common bond.
AP | Posted 08.16.2009 | Style
WASHINGTON — The Watergate Hotel made famous by a presidential scandal is expected to be on the auction block next week. Alex Cooper Auctioneer...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living
It is much easier to believe a simplistic and often appealing narrative. People are gullible. The world of advertising is built around that truism.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
Too bad Richard Nixon didn't have a mistress in Argentina, but he would have had to invade it first. In fact, anything outside his liquor cabinet was ...
AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
MIAMI — Watergate break-in planner E. Howard Hunt sought a presidential pardon by saying he thought the infamous burglary had "executive authori...
Editor & Publisher | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media
Watergate legend Bob Woodward says Monday's revelation by The New York Times that two of its journalists had a tip on the Watergate scandal that he an...
New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 06.24.2009 | Media
The Watergate break-in eventually forced a presidential resignation and turned two Washington Post reporters into pop-culture heroes. But almost 37 ye...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics