The president has a personal connection to his HHS secretary. Besides, he doesn't like chastising cabinet members—and probably couldn't replace her anyway.
Washington, now booming, is no longer "Chocolate City." Could a white mayor in a gentrifying town escalate racial tensions?
No question: Republicans use and abuse of the filibuster is unprecedented. But they got the idea from the Senate Democratic leader.
After the shooting in Newtown that left 20 elementary school students dead, the National Rifle Association responded with a proposal for what it called National School Shield program. The Navy Yard shooting exposes a fallacy in that argument.
Voter-ID laws have the left apoplectic, are usually unnecessary, and can hurt some voters. But not all laws are the same, and the risk has been exaggerated.
Living up to the great milestones of the past is often difficult, but the week of festivities was marked by the many, poignant missed opportunities.
He's selling himself as the anti-Bloomberg in New York City's mayoral race, and it's working.
Presenting three theories: the Liberal Hangover Problem, the Zimmerman Problem, and the Predictable Primetime Problem
The network has shifted from politics to the Zimmerman trial as it falls behind CNN and Fox News.
Given how little we know about the NSA leaker, committing to any clear position on his actions doesn't make sense yet.
He was a Reagan-appointed judge and a Clinton-appointed prosecutor respected by both sides. Then it all fell apart.
The only way journalists will be protected is if prosecutors stop being so quick to go after them.
The two leaders were fast friends, but Thatcher faced a more dire challenge -- and she addressed it without Reagan's aw-shucks charm.
Backers were once convinced that the Equal Rights Amendment was unstoppable, too. But 90 years after it was introduced, the ERA is going nowhere fast.
From big government to gay rights, America's fastest-growing demographic bloc aligns with Democrats.
From border security to H1-B visas, much needs to be answered in the looming immigration debate.
It's mostly the latter.
The Vatican doesn't loom as large as it once did in Washington, but the curious history of presidents and pontiffs offers augury for the White House.
It's not unusual for people's views to transform, but the playwright's Newsweek cover shows he could learn a lot from a late nuclear negotiator.