William Fulbright

I don't know how it happened. Or even, really, what happened. Or what it means. Someone in the U.S. government who specializes in finding terrorists seems to have found me and laid a heavy hand on my bank account.

Amid the constant fracas of daily political life, it is often hard to see the big picture of power in America (and, for that matter, the world.) In re...

Every living senator voted Wednesday to approve Gen. David Petraeus as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Call it the unanimity of lemmings -- except the senators and their families aren't the ones who'll keep plunging into the sea.

There was a time in America when policies war were to be judged by Generals and politicians, not the men and women who were on the ground, fighting. John Kerry changed the game forever.