Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton made clear last night that they are on the same page when it comes to turning out their voters for the Democratic ticket in November’s general election. Obama, cel...

My mother’s birthday was March 4. She turned 100, becoming a centenarian. My friends stop for a moment trying to do that calculation in their heads because the arithmetic doesn’t work automatically—...

In a story widely picked up in the U.S. media, Lord David Trimble—once an Ulster Unionist Partyleader, now a member of the Conservative Party—while speaking to The Daily Telegraph this weekend, dism...

Hillary Clinton reassembled much of her core constituency to win three of four contests Tuesday for the Democratic presidential nomination, including the big prizes of Ohio and Texas. Barack Obama w...

It was perhaps surprising to hear a presidential candidate reference the irreverent comedy workhorse, Saturday Night Live, in a nationally televised debate—but for those who’ve been tracking Hillary...

Hillary Clinton finds herself in a Catch 22 as she approaches the make-or-break Texas and Ohio primaries. Normally, a politician trying to check an opponent’s surge will go negative to alert voters...

Barack Obama not only scored convincing victories in the Potomac Primaries Tuesday, he ate into Hillary Clinton’s core constituencies of women, older voters and Latinos. That raises questions abou...

“Goodbye To All That” was Robin Morgan's (in)famous 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of accommodation especially affecting women. During her decades in civil-rights, anti-war, and contemporary women’s movements, she's avoided writing another specific “Goodbye . . .” But not since the suffrage struggle have two communities—joint conscience-keepers of this country—been so set in competition, as the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) and Barack Obama (BO) unfurls. So...