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Thursday, May 08, 2008 09:34:37 PM
 "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on" than Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton has told USA TODAY. Tuesday, May 06, 2008 07:47:43 PM
Is war with Iran inevitable, even imminent? Or is peace at hand? Friday, May 02, 2008 09:00:00 AM
"This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper," wrote T.S. Eliot in the closing couplet of "The Hollow Men." Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:00:00 AM
If John McCain wins the presidency, his comeback -- after the bankrupt debacle his campaign had become in the summer of 2007 with his backing of the amnesty bill -- will be the stuff of legend. Friday, April 25, 2008 02:00:00 PM
As one looks at the polls, the issues and the candidates, the election of 2008 resembles what poker players call a "lay-down hand." Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:00:00 AM
Last week, the Supreme Court held, 7 to 2, that Kentucky's method of lethal injection remains a constitutional way of executing the rapist of a child. Justice John Paul Stevens concurred. Friday, April 18, 2008 10:00:00 AM
Iran is conducting a proxy war against the United States in Iraq, declared Ambassador Ryan Crocker last week. Monday, April 14, 2008 11:00:00 PM
It was said behind closed doors to the chablis-and-brie set of San Francisco, in response to a question as to why he was not doing better in that benighted and barbarous land they call Pennsylvania. Friday, April 11, 2008 10:00:59 AM
The neocons may yet get their war on Iran. Ever since President Nouri al-Maliki ordered the attacks in Basra on the Mahdi Army, Gen. David Petraeus has been laying the predicate for U.S. air strikes on Iran and a wider war in the Middle East. Tuesday, December 04, 2007 09:31:45 AM
On the Great Seal of the United States, first suggested by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, there was to be emblazoned a new motto: "E Pluribus Unum" -- "Out of many, one." Tuesday, January 23, 2007 08:12:46 AM
After a weekend in which 29 Americans died and the 82nd Airborne deployed in Baghdad, what the Iraq war will mean to the politics of 2008 becomes clear. Friday, January 19, 2007 07:04:23 AM
No sooner had Sens. Hagel and Biden announced their resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Bush surge of 21,500 troops to Iraq was not in the national interest than the stampede was on. By day's end, Sens. Dodd, Clinton, Bayh, Levin and Obama and ex-Sen. John Edwards had all made or issued statements calling for reversing course or getting out. Tuesday, January 16, 2007 09:55:28 PM
America is four years into a bloody debacle in Iraq not merely because Bush and Cheney marched us in, or simply because neocon propagandists lied about Saddam's nuclear program and WMDs, and Iraqi ties to al-Qaida, anthrax attacks and 9-11. Friday, January 12, 2007 08:14:19 AM
Wednesday night, George Bush seemed to play his last card in the Iraq war. It was not impressive. Consider. Tuesday, January 09, 2007 07:59:31 AM
As George Bush reflects on his legacy, an urgent question must be pressing in upon him each day. Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:03:56 AM
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan, said a rueful John F. Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs. George W. Bush knows today whereof his predecessor spoke. Monday, January 01, 2007 08:35:03 AM
If there was a defining moment in 2006, it was the public firing of Donald Rumsfeld, just hours after the Republican rout of Nov. 7. Friday, December 29, 2006 06:15:03 AM
Gerald R. Ford was a good man who served his country well in an evil time. Friday, December 22, 2006 08:27:59 AM
"I grew up in the Episcopal church. I hope I don't cry when I talk about this. But the issue is: Are we going to follow Scripture?" Wednesday, December 20, 2006 08:34:34 AM
The insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have thus far cost fewer U.S. lives than the Filipino insurgency of 1899-1902. Yet Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker warned Congress last week the U.S. Army "will break" without more troops. Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:14:53 AM
Since 1927, the year Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in his single-engine Spirit of St. Louis, Time has devoted its final cover of the year to the Man of the Year. The Lone Eagle was first. Friday, December 15, 2006 07:12:43 AM
Gov. Mitt Romney, leaving office, has just taken a modest step to protect the people of Massachusetts. Tuesday, December 12, 2006 07:32:03 AM
"I believe this is a recipe that will lead to our defeat ... in Iraq," said John McCain. He has a point. Friday, December 08, 2006 07:30:20 AM
"The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating," declares the Iraq Study Group in the lead sentence of its long-awaited report. Tuesday, December 05, 2006 07:01:41 AM
During last summer's Israeli-Hezbollah war, Condi Rice assured us that we were witnessing the "birth pangs of a new Middle East." Friday, December 01, 2006 07:22:39 AM
A few days back, the "Today" show, speaking for NBC News, declared Iraq a "civil war," and said the network and CNBC and MSNBC would henceforth use that term to describe it. Tuesday, November 28, 2006 07:30:49 AM
PARIS -- Whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko had two goals: a long and lingering death for the KGB defector and pointing a finger of accusation for his killing right in the face of Vladimir Putin. Tuesday, November 21, 2006 09:56:26 PM
"For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" On reading the Washington Post story by Robin Wright, "Bush Initiates Iraq Policy Review Separate from Baker's Group," about a new internal review of U.S. war policy, St. Paul's words return to mind. Thursday, November 16, 2006 01:45:03 PM
With the resignation of Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman, President Bush intends to fill the post with Florida's Mel Martinez, a Hispanic who led the battle in the U.S. Senate for amnesty for illegal aliens. Tuesday, November 14, 2006 05:55:07 AM
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