Mitt Romney is a dangerous man
Some 25 years ago, when I was young and stupid, I was swept off my feet by Jonathan Schell's book "The Fate of the Earth.'' Schell's argument consisted of three…
One-word debates
Almost four decades ago, when the environmentalist movement was just being birthed, The Washington Post's editorial page icon Meg Greenfield put it into perspective by observing that in her formative…
The bizarre ritual called Iowa
The Iowa presidential caucuses have become such an accepted part of the political calendar it's easy to forget what bizarre rituals they are. But on 6:30 Thursday, if turnout is as…
Trouble in Hillary’s paradise
Democratic Presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton plans a “campaign-wide house cleaning” if she loses the opening primary season races in Iowa and New Hampshire,” sources within here beleaguered organization tell…
Did Bush send Bhutto to her death?
The Bush Administration "condemned former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to death" by ignoring warnings from that she would "almost certainly be assassinated" if she returned to her native country,…
Obama leads latest Iowa poll
Presidential contenders rang in the 2008 election year with near-constant campaigning on Monday as a poll showed Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee leading their rivals with three days…
For Pelosi, a year marked by failure
Nancy Pelosi crashed through a glass ceiling when she became the first female House speaker a year ago. That turned out to be the easy part. The reality of leading a…
One political stunt too many?
Mike Huckabee may have finally gone too far. After running an unconventional, surprisingly strong and sometimes strange race to the top tier of the Republican presidential campaign, the former Arkansas governor…
