You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly ….

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever su….

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominate….

Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the ….

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in hi….

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate..

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators..

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante.

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so….

The dirty little secret is Donald Trump's views are not all that different from the rest of the Republicans in the field. Nobody in the Republican fi….

But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't have a nice ring to it. We call it 'vo….

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the roo….

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others t….

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history..

You could say that Trump is the 21st century version of Pat Buchanan. Protectionist, anti-immigrant..

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth..

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live..

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician..

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down..

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum..

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world..