While writing Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House on Bill Clinton's post presidency, I interviewed 167 people. None of them seemed as passionately committed--in love with, really--Hillary Clinton as Susie Tompkins Buell, the ultra-wealthy San Franciscan who cofounded Esprit with her ex-husband. She has since remarried...

The First Lady in the USA is a position of peculiar significance. Among the major Western countries, the only remote equivalent can be found in France with its Première Dame. One need only glance at the lyrics on the delectable Madame Carla Bruni Sarkozy's recent pop album to know that...

Of course Hillary Clinton's speech last night at the Democratic National Convention was emphatic and inspiring - as she urged all her supporters to get behind Barack Obama. But Hillary has made this plea before, and the more important speech at "healing the rift" will happen tonight when ex-President Bill...

What a speech. It was warm and persuasive and smart, and only a troll like Dick Morris could have failed to be moved when she talked about her commitment to the working folks of America. And yes, while Hillary gave a killer speech -- and thank god, maybe now those...

If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11.

On September 10, 2001, Senator Biden, then (as now) chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, prophetically warned of the new...

The John McCain derogatory hit squad is at it again. All they know how to do is to sling mud, falsify records and go negative -- no matter how ridiculous the charge.

They are reduced to such absurd tactics because they know that for Jewish voters the issues that matter...

I'm sorry, but the theories elsewhere on this site that Hillary Clinton showed "exemplary grit and class" or that "it is no longer up to her" are preposterous.

Hillary managed to make voting for Obama sound like taking Cod Liver Oil rather than like following the most inspirational...

I've been working in Democratic politics on the local and national level a since the Olde Days when Middle School was called Jr. High, and the Age of Aquarius was a hope and not a song. I worked, mostly, for decent, inspiring and losing politicians. I now support Barack Obama,...

WASHINGTON - President-General Pervez Musharraf's resignation last week was the most commendable act of his nine-year dictatorship. One of America's most important foreign allies leaves in his wake a Pakistan plunged into political uncertainty and gripped by rising internal violence.

While Pakistanis danced with joy in...

DENVER -- When the by-then-no-longer-presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama takes the stage at Invesco Field on Thursday, most of the campaign volunteers staffing the event will be less than twenty-five years old. This fact suggests that Barack Obama has already brought about some of the open-ended change he has now...

Tuesday night, we heard how great Hillary was, how much she's struggled for women, we heard how important health care is and how important breaking barriers is. But we didn't hear anything about what kind of person Barack Obama is and what kind of president (or Commander in Chief) he...

"Words, words, words." Hamlet appreciated and loved them.

We do as well. Or at least, we should since we're getting bombarded with words during the back-to-back political conventions.

Hamlet's creator, William Shakespeare, used words with more finesse than anyone in history. Plus, he had the greatest...

As the presidential campaign enters a particularly combative phase, John McCain is turning to his trump card at every turn: his famous stay at the Hanoi Hilton.

Liberal commentators like Maureen Dowd, Rachel Maddow, and HuffPost's Sam Stein have pointed out the ridiculousness of McCain overuse of the...

The Democratic Party paid homage at its convention Monday night to a Kennedy scion whose family values demand public service and who believed it was his duty as a senator to speak for the voiceless, not champion the causes of the already powerful.

The film clip...

Lyndon Baines Johnson was born 100 years ago today. After Franklin Roosevelt, his record as a progressive Democrat was unsurpassed. Thanks to his leadership and passion, Congress enacted Medicare, Medicaid, federal aid to education, Headstart, the Job Corps, legal services for the poor, and countless other pocketbook measures that helped...

As the democrats have gathered in Denver to unite and rally all supporters behind Obama, they are causing a lot of excitement about the prospect of America getting passed the tipping point and addressing many of the challenges we have been facing for decades. However, Obama continues to show signs...

From The Nation.

No, we're not done talking about her.

Sen. Hillary Clinton's official moment in Denver is over. Her Tuesday night unity performance drew rapturous applause from Democratic delegates and supportive analysis from the punditocracy. The most consequential Clinton question, however, is whether any of it matters....

All the blue and white "Unity" signs didn't make nearly as vivid an impression as did the Lady in Gold on Night Number Two in Denver. Hillary Clinton Night at the Democratic Convention was actually the first night we've seen any real red meat served up in prime time. And...