Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... Fanning myself after reading the story of the gate crashers at the White House, Michaele and Tareq Salahi. What narcissistic jerks! Sorry, but I'm humorless on this. It's an issue of presidential security and you don't monkey...

[My story in today's paper.] President George W. Bush once boasted, "I'm not a textbook player, I'm a gut player." The new tenant of the Oval Office takes a strikingly different approach. President Obama is almost defiantly deliberative, methodical and...

[Bulletin, just fyi: Washington Post closing all national bureaus. I remember when we had Booth in Miami, Maraniss in Austin, gobs of people in New York, someone in Chicago, Denver, and three people in Los Angeles, including a Style writer.] Last week,...

This morning I overhead someone talk about "the best thing since sliced bread." But I missed hearing about the thing that was the object of her superlative. I felt my innards congeal with curiosity, and when it didn't pass, I realized I needed to think...