First the admissions: Democrats – thank Nancy Pelosi as well as the president for this – completely lost control of any coherent message...

The intersection of money and politics, both at the fringes and at the center of our democracy, has often led to full-blown scandal....

Tesla, in challenging the long-established American way of selling new cars, is (big surprise) hitting decades-old speed bumps as it...

Brewer, an often erratic politician who once championed most causes of the far right of her party, took her time in doing it, but she...

In Federalist 78, Hamilton, writing as Publius, discussed several issues related to the judicial branch of the government that had been...

The New York Post – as ridiculous as a newspaper in those days as it remains today – offered the headline: “Dangerous Minstrel Nabbed...

There is a truism in politics that the worst wounds are those that are self inflicted. The next most damaging wounds are those that are...

That standoff helped precipitate the recent change in Senate rules that eliminates the filibuster as a tool of the minority to thwart a...

Washington Sen. Patty Murray and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the chairs of the Congressional budget committees, continue talking in an...

Put a man on the moon in the decade of the 1960’s and return him safely to Earth – no problem. Create a Peace Corps and send idealistic...

The remarkable political turn of fortune for the same sex marriage issue has been stunning, particularly when you consider that as...

One of my Long favorites: “The Democratic Party and the Republican Party were just like the old patent medicine drummer that used to come...

Tom Foley’s death this week at 84 reminds us that the leader of the House of Representatives was once a courtly, civil, decent guy who,...

The president might start by remembering that there are three things in politics that can be enormously powerful, but are almost always...

“If there is that degree of disruption, that lack of certainty, that lack of trust in the US signature, it would mean massive disruption...

“It was the sweetness in his timbre, the meekness of his posture,” Bruni wrote that was truly remarkable. “It was the revelation that a...

The great theme in all the coverage leading up to the actual anniversary of the March and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s remarkable “I...

In an Op-Ed piece – it’s always an Op-Ed piece, isn’t it, where news is made these days – Frank allowed as how the hit show House of...

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...

Lots of Republicans, particularly the Tea Party wing of the party, love the Club for Growth and its mouthpiece former Rep. Chris Chocola...