Bring on the Sour Cream Let’s get this out of the way right off the top: there is no better potato in the world than the Idaho potato....

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

Bob Uecker – “Mr. Baseball” – best known now as a broadcaster, movie star and funny guy, wasn’t much of a major league ball player....

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...

Growing up and loving baseball, I remember having near complete admiration for the daring exploits of the Big Red Machine and...

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

Edward R. Murrow famously said of Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy that he had not created the fear of Communism that swept the nation...

I’m thinking as I read about each new revelation in the widening Rupert Murdoch/tabloid/police/political scandal in Britain that we...

Douglas Haig – that’s him done up to his bemedalled best – has become the most controversial general of the Great War. His career,...

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

You could not look at a website or pick up a paper over the weekend without seeing the nearly minute-by-minute coverage of the latest...

I went looking for a photo of Carl Burke, the great Idaho attorney and the only campaign manager Frank Church ever had, and, of course,...

Idaho’s Battle Over Education Reform There was never a real chance that supporters of a recall of Idaho’s Superintendent of Public...

One of the sweetest scenes in Woody Allen’s charming new film “Midnight in Paris,” involves the main character, played by Owen Wilson,...

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...

Hugh Billingsly (aka Ward Cleaver) must be smiling that knowing smile somewhere this weekend. He learned a lot as Wally and the Beav were...

I woke up this morning thinking of writing something about the GOP debate last night in New Hampshire. But that encounter, featuring...

The Chronicle of Higher Education is out with fascinating new research about the educational attainment of all of the country’s 7,000...

Bill Neukom, now the managing general partner and CEO of my beloved San Francisco Giants, seems like one of those guys who has led ten...