Thomas E. Dewey, the one-time mob busting New York City prosecutor and later governor of New York, made three different runs at the White...

One particularly chilling scene in the outstanding new film Margin Call takes place when the CEO of a big banking house, played with cool...

At its birthing the Super Committee seemed to have it all – bi-partisan endorsement from both houses of Congress, senior and generally...

You thought perhaps that Thanksgiving was all about Grandma’s cranberry relish, Aunt Mae’s pumpkin pie and a nap on the sofa while a...

I have always thought it was a statement of the character, decency and political astuteness of Harry Truman that he developed a genuine...

At pivotal moments in American history it has often been the case that the right leader somehow emerged from the chaos of the moment and...

Amid the tenth anniversary reflections over the terror attacks on New York and Washington there is much to ponder, remember and regret,...

When Its Lost Can it be Found Again? I’ve had a good deal of fun over the last few weeks teaching a college-level political science...

I don’t normally pay a great deal of attention to the political opinions of Hollywood personalities. So I confess I missed the initial...

I’d argue that ever modern American presidential election comes down to one fundamental question: do we change or do we continue? In...

Let the Ordeal Begin Britain has plenty of problems, as the recent and shocking riots in London, Manchester and elsewhere painfully...

On Wall Street and the NCAA The nation’s political chattering classes have had plenty to chatter about over the last couple of weeks –...

Not Likely to See His Kind Again I’ve always thought of Mark Hatfield, the Oregon Republican who died on Sunday, as looking and acting...

It is not really true, as is often said, that history repeats. No historical analogy is ever 100 percent correct. What history does...

I predicted a week ago that the “sensible center” would ultimately behave like adults and avoid a federal government default, but by last...

It is often said in politics that “what goes around comes around.” This is such a story. In the 1940’s and 1950’s Arthur Dean was a...

The late, great Senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was asked back in 1993, when Congress was debating an earlier federal...

The thing that may be the most maddening about the current deficit reduction/debt ceiling kabuki dance in Washington, D.C. is that every...

Nothing, ever – nothing – is certain in politics. A candidate or officeholder can literally go from hero to zero in the length of time it...

As St. John’s University law professor Michael Perino explains in his superb book on the 1933 congressional investigation into the stock...