Germond, who died this week at age 85, was definitely of the “old school.” He knew how to change a typewriter ribbon and I’ll bet he once...

As Sarah Kliff wrote recently in the Washington Post “nobody knew whether the new program would provide benefits to millions or fail...

Trouble comes in threes and in the case of the stumbling start to Barack Obama’s second term trouble is spelled three ways –...

One appointee, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, (that’s him with Gen. George Marshall) had actually served as Secretary of State in the...

In 1963 when the young black activist, John Lewis, who later became the distinguished Congressman from Georgia, was nearly beaten to...

The Obama campaign and its Super PAC allies spent all summer, as the favorite catch phrase of politics now holds, advancing that...

The San Francisco Giants (happily for we Giants fans) clearly have what George H.W. Bush once called “The Big Mo.” The dejected St. Louis...

The astute political analyst Charlie Cook nailed the essence of Mitt Romney months ago when he said the GOP nominee is “unencumbered by...

Yet, amid the dismal economic news, Roosevelt had succeeded in his first term in passing tough new banking regulations, massive public...

FOX News contributor Juan Williams, hardly an apologist for national Democrats, noted in a opinion column in The Hill today that the flat...

Former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson has one message in his post-Senate life as a truth teller about the nation’s fiscal health. Simpson...

Yesterday I received, I’ve lost count honestly, what must be my 13th or 14th piece of mail from Mitt. On the same day I got a letter with...

allegedly involving sex and an animal – against a political opponent. His staff pushed back arguing that the allegation was untrue, but...

David Maraniss, an Associate Editor of The Washington Post, is just out with a completely sourced, deeply researched reporting job called...

If Barack Obama holds off a determined and extraordinarily well-financed challenge from Mitt Romney and wins a second term in November it...

The (Almost) Case for Unilateral Action In September 1940, just in front of the election that would make Franklin Roosevelt the first and...

Skillful politicians, it is often said, make their own luck. They have – or develop – the instincts to act, speak or hold their tongue at...

Mark Twain is reported to have said, “It isn’t so astonishing the things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that...

Google “Mitt Romney” today and the first thing that appears is “Mitt Romney bullying,” which says a lot about a lot of things. It may...

One of the great strategies in politics is to take your opponent’s greatest strength and turn that advantage  into a liability. It’s not...