"We have one president at a time," Mr. Obama is careful to say. True, but the sitting president, a lame duck despised by voters and shunned by his own party's candidates, now has all the gravitas of Mr. Cellophane in "Chicago." The...

As compared to Cheney, this NYT Mag photo of a distant and unplugged Biden besides a lonely and indistinct Iraq map makes the dour-looking Joe, and the Administration by association, look mostly missionless and emasculated. ...

There's just something about that party and this bird. Happy Thanksgiving from The BAG! The rest of the LIFE's presidential turkey slideshow. (photo: John Dominis/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images via art.com, January 1, 1954)

I'm really curious about your take on these two shots (from Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg), especially the second one which really freaks me out. (And why is this woman allowed anywhere close to America's military installations with this PR...

(The photos combined are about 2K pixels wide. Click for full detail.) In the last 13 days, the White House has posted only three photos to its Flickr stream. Two of the three feature the closely-watched meeting between Obama and his national...

    by contributor Pete Brook Under the Freedom of Information Act, CNN recently got hold of 23 hours of interrogation tapes that detail the actions and motives of US marines that killed three Iraqis in March 2007, dumping their bodies in a...