The last senator to go directly from Capitol Hill to the White House, John F. Kennedy, exclaimed, “People, people, people. I don’t know any people; I only know voters.” The president-elect was worrying about how to fill the top jobs …

Revisionists who wish to argue for a more positive long-term assessment of President Bush’s legacy have their work cut out for them. That hasn’t stopped them from trying, though it needs to be said that their efforts thus far have …

Nelson Rising, chairman of Tom Bradley’s 1982 campaign for California governor, still remembers the phone call. Bradley called him shortly after 4 a.m. on a long Election Night, when it was clear Bradley had lost to Republican George Deukmejian. …

Along with the excited good wishes of his supporters, advice will be the most plentiful commodity the new president receives. And in no area will suggestions be more plentiful than in foreign policy.

Few people understand economics, and therefore …

The liberal "community organizing" group ACORN became a campaign issue last month after Nevada’s Democratic attorney general and its Democratic secretary of state teamed up to conduct a highly visible raid of the group’s Las Vegas offices. They seized files …

We don’t know yet who will win or by what margin, but we know one thing for certain: this election represents the repudiation of Karl Rove and his play-to-the-base strategy.

There was always something dicey about stoking the …

Last Monday, former Bush White House aide Peter Wehner made a startling statement in an op-ed in The Washington Post. He said that while “The GOP is in bad shape; conservatism is not.”

Nothing could be further from …

Perhaps no geography in America is as misunderstood as the nation’s small towns and rural areas. The home to no more than one in five Americans, these areas barely register with the national media except for occasional reports about their …

At a rally in Ohio last week, Sen. John McCain — harried by crumbling poll numbers, hopscotching from state to state — announced that "I’m an American, and I choose to fight." But for those of us keeping hope alive …

In early July, the McCain presidential campaign released an ad titled “Love.” The spot juxtaposes John McCain’s wartime heroics against a montage of images from the counterculture of late-’60s America: Freewheeling hippies walk city streets dressed outrageously, while a couple …