“I’m voting for McCain … but I gotta tell ya, I really like Obama.” So laughs Peter Markle, the director of the 2005 movie “Faith of My Fathers,” based on John McCain’s best-selling memoir. Markle, who has voted for Democrats …

Robert Primus has a pet peeve he is reminded of between May and September.

“I actually have a problem with how most offices dress or how they allow their offices to dress,” said Primus, chief of staff for Rep. Michael E. …

Rep. Mike Honda held court Tuesday night at Cafe Japone, a Dupont Circle restaurant and karaoke bar.

With a pink lei around his neck, the California Democrat raised his arm and hooted in support of a young staffer as she struggled …

Making its debut at the Los Angeles Film Festival this week, “Boogie Man” tells the life story of Lee Atwater, the late, legendary GOP operative who changed the course of modern political campaigning by emphasizing attack ads, wedge issues and, …

Who says Americans aren’t optimistic?

A massive new study of religious attitudes in the country found that 74 percent of respondents believed in heaven, while only 59 percent of people believed in hell.

Belief in hell …

“The history of Juneteenth celebrations has its ups and downs,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said in a statement commemorating the day in June when Texas slaves learned that the Civil War was over.

The holiday, which is …

Apparently, the housing crunch is nonpartisan. Washington insiders such as Ted Koppel, Ethel Kennedy and Ken Mehlman have priced to sell in a market that’s taken a noticeable downward swing.

“Prices have come down in general,” said Diana …

NBC’s Tom Brokaw began Wednesday’s tribute to Tim Russert by telling the elite crowd of friends, media colleagues and politicians from the outset, “This is a celebration.”

Determined to mark Russert’s passing “Irish-style,” Brokaw promised “some laughs, some …

Time magazine may call 2008 “the year of the youth vote,” but can the year take a three-month summer break? Many young voters — those under 30 — are college or graduate students.

And with those students away from many campuses …

Powerful Hollywood women may be despondent over Hillary Rodham Clinton’s departure from this year’s presidential race, but they’re not ready to throw in the towel — not by a long shot. Indeed, Clinton and Barack Obama supporters in Hollywood are …