The media’s favorite academic pundit, Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, has slightly jumped the gun on the traditional Labor...

Gen. Stanley McCrystal, the fellow Barack Obama fired earlier this year as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is lecturing at Yale...

By now, I suspect, everyone in the country – except perhaps that escaped prisoner caught late last week in Arizona with his accomplice...

I’ve long been a believer that the best defense against what is often referred to as “the nefarious influence of money in politics” is...

The news that the longest serving member of Congress in the nation’s history, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, had died got me to thinking...

My old boss, Cece Andrus, was about as good at speaking off the cuff as any politician I’ve ever seen. He had a plain spoken, even blunt...

Jim Leach, the current chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a former 15-term Republican Congressman from Iowa, has...

Richard Blumenthal’s problems prove one of my cardinal rules of politics – there is no such thing as a coincidence. You look deeply...

Big ol’ Dale has become, thanks to the Internet, the most famous man ever to run for State Agriculture Commissioner. If you’re a...

While most of the national attention today will be focused on Specter and Sestak in Pennsylvania, Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas and whether...

I think the wonderful line is attributable to former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson. At least I’ll give him credit. It sounds like...

You have to wonder why Jerry Brown would want the job. California, among the biggest economies in the world, is flat broke; $20 billion –...

Anyone who says they know with any degree of certainty the short and/or long-term political impacts of the health care/insurance reform...

Al Simpson, the former Republican Senator from Cody, Wyoming, is one of an increasingly rare breed in American public life. He actually...

What we now think of as the modern White House staff dates back to the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before FDR – Woodrow Wilson,...

Elliot Richardson was the Attorney General of the United States when he resigned in 1973 rather than carry out an order he couldn’t agree...

Will Rogers famously said he belonged to no organized political party. He was a Democrat. The cowboy philosopher would find himself right...

Great piece in the Boston Globe today on why Massachusetts’ voters made the decisions they made recently; putting a Republican, Scott...

My father had a marvelous sense of humor and he would often joke about the little town where he grew up in western Nebraska. Dad would...

In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt’s chief political operative and campaign manager, Postmaster General James A. Farley, commissioned a public...