Memo to CNN: in future debates don’t put candidates for president of the United States at little desks that look like they belong in a...

Should you desire to get caught up on your political reading, here are several “must reads” to start the week: Walter Shapiro has a tough...

There are few enduring truths in politics. Money usually wins would be one truism. Optimism beats gloom would be another. The truism that...

For 20 of the last 31 years a Republican president has occupied the Oval Office. Two of those presidents – the first and second George...

If Mitt Romney wins the Florida primary Tuesday, as now seems likely, the media scrum following his every move will no doubt credit his...

It is rare – very rare – that a state Supreme Court rises up on its hind legs and says to the United States Supreme Court we think you...

With two wins in a row in the hip pocket of his blue jeans, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney heads to South Carolina today to...

Republicans and many conservative legal authorities are outraged by President Obama’s recent recess appointments to install Richard...

So many things we associate with the modern American presidency, including its imperial nature, where created by Franklin D. Roosevelt...

The abbreviated presidency and unfinished life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is, 48 years after his murder in Dallas, one enduring subject...

At least since 1933, when Franklin D. Roosevelt actually suggested in his first inaugural address that he might need to ask Congress for...

Elections and the Court When the Obama Justice Department announced last week that it had asked the United States Supreme Court for an...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

“The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.” – William Butler Yeats When Barack Obama stood before a...