Articles: Politics
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Can the Dems Keep Putting Up with Joe Lieberman?
The Democratic Party is trying to grin and bear the roguish independent Joe Lieberman in their caucus (they do need his vote on health care), but it is getting harder and harder
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Why Did the Iraq Surge Work?
There's no guarantee that counterinsurgency tactics will succeed in Afghanistan
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The Senate's Turn: Can Democrats Close the Health Care Deal?
Now that the House has passed its health care bill with a vote of 220 to 215, Democrats on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue feel an even greater sense of urgency
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The State of Hillary: A Mixed Record on the Job
She is the star of the Obama Cabinet and an international celebrity — and after nine months of staying out of the limelight, Hillary Clinton has arrived on the global stage. An intimate portrait of the diplomat and her world
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After the House, Can Health Reform Survive the Senate?
Democrats on Capitol Hill are congratulating themselves on their historic achievement of passing a health care-reform bill, but they know as well as anyone that it is too early to really celebrate
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The Rogue Returns: On the Road with Sarah Palin
GOP heartthrob Sarah Palin is back in the spotlight, this time as an author. Is she running for office -- or just the best-seller list?
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Financial Regulation: Way Easier Than Health Care
What reform could dramatically remake America and become law by Christmas? Not health-care
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The Rebirth of the Republican Middle
Conservatives get the most attention as the GOP revives. But moderates in the Republican Party are rising too
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Republican Wins Show Dems They Are on Their Own
The GOP gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia may not have been a referendum on Obama, but they did show that the President's popularity cannot so easily be transferred
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Gay-Marriage Activists Look Ahead After Maine Defeat
Maine's vote against gay marriage, much like all of the states before it, including California's Prop 8 a year ago, will do little to slow the fight over it
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Dems Weigh Dropping Medicare Expansion
The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from historic health care legislation Monday in hopes of assuring Christmas-week passage of the bill to extend coverage to tens of millions
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Supreme Court Rejects Redskins Name Case
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