Both Barack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt began their presidency by inheriting a country in economic meltdown. Both were Washington, D.C....

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

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

If you need any proof that the confirmation process for high officials of the United States government works about as well as Toyota’s...

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

Under either scenario, the buzz will dissipate quickly with the pundits and cable bloviators moving on to something else by about...

Dallek’s op-ed piece this week in the Wall Street Journal is a fitting wrap-up of this year in presidential politics and a must read....

His latest effort, the speech to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, was a moment on the world stage that was ripe with irony. The prize for...

I have a clear memory of an old basketball coach from high school who preached a simple strategy. Coach would say when someone was trying...

News today that President Obama is set to announce his Afghanistan strategy next week. He certainly has been getting a lot of advice and...

Barack Obama got off a wonderful line last week when he spoke to more than 500 of the nation’s tribal leaders at a major conference in...

The great American writer John Updike never won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He should have. When Updike came to Idaho a few years...

Candidate Obama got into one of those pointless (but totally consuming, made for the media) debates with Hillary Clinton last year when...

I’ve often thought that if the occasional Michael Jackson funeral or Mark Sanford hike on the Appalachian Trail didn’t materialize to...

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that ain’t so.” – Mark Twain OK, I admit it. I...