Now Trump is like Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, without the Southern charm.
Lightly smiling, McCain tapped in Morse code on the elegant lunch table, to show how he communicated with other prisoners of war in the Hanoi Hilton. I couldn't get over his cheer.
Simply, she's the best of times, the spring sun. He's the worst of times, the darkness before the dawn.
Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., showed his press secretary and me how he communicated with other prisoners of war in the Hanoi Hilton: Morse code. And he smiled impishly.
I'm getting dressed in blue rags to go to the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. It's the annual April spring thing. Black tie in a ballroom. Usually the president sits at the head table and ...
America is living a Greek tragedy, because of a freakishly tall man who thinks he carries the weight of the world on his shoulders. His name is James Comey; his brand-new book title is "A ...
In certain circles in Washington and Hollywood, you hear a lot about the virtues of Joe Biden running for president in 2020. Chris Matthews, the MSNBC pundit, and Donna Brazile, the former Democratic National Committee ...
President Donald Trump's America desperately depends upon passage of radical tax code change. Much is at stake, namely, the fundamental fairness in the taxation system President Clinton put in place in 1993. But a massive ...
John F. Kennedy was the American president on a bright morning in Texas. He was murdered at midday in Dallas, in 1963. The world's heart stood still before it broke. Beyond our borders, Berlin and ...
Go down, Harvey Weinstein, down to Alabama and campaign for cowboy Roy Moore, the Republican rocking Washington the way you roiled Hollywood. The dirty river of sexual harassment finally rose to claim and name each ...
Forgive my blue gloom. Clinton was for all seasons — first lady, senator, secretary of state. She deserved better: a fair chance, not to be run down in the mud of her opponent's misogyny. Her ...
Primed and ready, Pence is acting presidential, learning his lines, much like the senior statesman he never was. Donald Trump's reign, volatile and fragile, has left an opening for mild-mannered but ambitious Pence, 58, to ...
As the days passed this bleak week, Kelly kept a silence, hardened into ice. He failed to apologize to a Democratic congresswoman of color for speaking poorly and falsely of her in a national media ...
The free-fall from movie pharaoh to industry pariah brought a breeze of vindication. Weinstein's life crumbled in such cinematic style that a plot point was born: a flood named #MeToo. The hashtag sprang up for ...
Now we live in a time when the 45th president insults and threatens the press as his daily bread. The press has taken his verbal abuse on the chin. On Donald Trump's first full day ...