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

Still it’s fascinating to see the broad and deep bipartisan out pouring of respect for a man that the Reagan Administration contended in...

The Idaho Legislature has devoted considerable time and money over the last few months to an analysis of how the state might take over...

In other words – short. Very short. For a few moments earlier this fall we were consumed by the news of a humanitarian crisis and...

Nigella? Really? Generally, I expect that the biggest news to break during this, my favorite holiday, is the by now...

It was 1966 and three-term incumbent Republican Robert E. Smylie, pictured here dressed like he might have been trying out for The Sons...

Tom Wicker was a southern liberal, born and educated in North Carolina and passionate about civil rights and civil liberties. He also...

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...

Anyone alive then – I was ten years old – holds their own searing memories of that fateful Friday in November and the awful days that...

Among the raft of Executive Orders signed by Roosevelt, and permitted under the Emergency Act, was the creation of the Rural...

Here’s a prediction. When the history of the Obama Administration is written, the admittedly monumental screw ups with the health...

For baseball fans who have been glued to the tube during this remarkably engaging World Series, I should mention that Castiglione is one...

The president was making his way to the Oval Office after his daily swim that Saturday when he was told by an aide of the unwelcome news...

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...

So, no George on the trip to Varenna and Bellagio – the one on the big lake in Italy, not on The Strip in Nevada. I remember lovely...

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