Dick Polman

What is it with second-term presidents, anyway? Nixon supposedly knew nothing about Watergate, Reagan professed to know nothing about Ira ...

  Robert Costa, the best journalist in Washington during the Republican shutdown, is rightly bemused about his soaring celebr ...

  Who could possibly oppose the idea of protecting gay people from workplace discrimination? But you already know the ...

  On TV today, Chris Christie got the requisite question about his future, and he gave the requisite response: “You nev ...

Kennedy mania has resurfaced yet again, this time to mark the impending half-century anniversary of JFK’s assassination, and you ...

Oh man, what a mess: A botched design, squabbling contractors, lousy administration oversight, computer glitches and delays, taxpayer mon ...

  Let’s revisit Richard Hofstadter, the noted historian who, half a century ago, ...

  The buzz du jour decrees that the GOP, by dint of its wanton behavior, will cough up control of the U. S. House in ...

It was eerie yesterday, watching President Obama play pitchman-in-chief for Obamacare. Yes, he said, the government website launch has be ...

On TV yesterday, Mitch McConnell fashioned a noose for his own neck when he ...

Cory Booker is only the fourth African American ever to be elected to the U. S. Senate, and he’ll soon be the sole elected black in ...

  Well, that was fun. Fifteen days of needless national misery – reduced corporate earnings, uninspected foods, mass fu ...