I admit that I wrote off Newt Gingrich months ago. I thought the Tiffany line of credit, the lack of attention to actually doing the hard...

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

Calvin Trillin has covered the civil rights movement, produced some of the best long form journalism in recent times for The New Yorker,...

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...

I am a sucker for old, historic hotels and among the many I love is the Algonquin in New York City. Not because the rooms are great –...

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

The Year the Johnson’s Integrated Thanksgiving Note: Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I’m re-posting a Thanksgiving piece from several...

The Year the Johnson’s Integrated Thanksgiving Note: Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I’m re-posting a Thanksgiving piece from several...

It can be difficult – maybe even impossible – to think worried thoughts about the failure of the Super Committee, the Greek debt crisis...

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

There is an old story about the very last in a long, long list of speakers at one of those interminable political dinners that go on and...

What to make of the “occupy” protests? Is it the fad of the moment; the “trust fund” demographic playing at protest against the consumer...

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...

The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case that has it all for we separation of powers fans. The briefing in the...

The World Series winning manager was on David Letterman’s show last night – he’s earned a victory lap – talking about his unlikely last...

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

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

Herman Cain is rising in the polls faster than a double crust pepperoni in a hot oven. Add some extra cheese. This guy has the Big Mo....

While Herman Cain talks about his “9-9-9” plan to restore the economy and Mitt Romney touts a 59 point plan to do the same, while...

I didn’t know Pat Murphy well. I wish I had known him better. What I did know and observe firsthand about the former Arizona Republic...