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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 09.14.2009 | 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...
AP | LAURI NEFF | Posted 06.14.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Ali Wentworth is practically Washington royalty. Her father was a Washington Post reporter, her mom was Nancy's Reagan's White House...
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
The mess Nixon left Ford -- inflation and recession, a war winding down -- didn't preclude pursuing the larger Watergate affair, and the regime that gave rise to it. What makes waterboarding different?
Lea Lane | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics
The best of us must now show "all conviction" to hold hearings to prosecute those who authorized torture.
Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
Congress needs to immediately begin an impeachment proceeding against Bybee for his criminal behavior. If torture is not a high crime and misbehavior, nothing is.
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Carol Orsborn | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living