RCP’s Jay Cost has an interesting post today about the nature of candidates within the political system, endeavoring to explain why President Obama can’t stop “renegade” Democrats from defying his wishes in Senate primaries in...

Last night, in an address to the nation from the US Military Academy at West Point, NY, the President of the United States finally disclosed his long-suffering decision on General Stanley McChrystal’s proposed troop surge for Afghanistan. The...

So he came in as a great recruiter, a great builder, a new innovator, already with the rings on his finger, the prizes around his neck, and he was going to make everything better — but then he started losing people, right and left, and the team he...

In a remarkable development, wire services are reporting that Fritz Henderson will resign as CEO of General Motors Corporation. Word has it that he will be replaced on an interim basis by chairman Ed Whitacre. The news is surprising, even though it...

“How we loved you then,” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of Albert Camus during their acrimonious split in 1952. This simple but deeply sad phrase sprang to mind the other day when I was informed of Andrew Sullivan’s latest descent into unreason. The occasion...

What if a future President wants to go to war or ship more troops overseas to protect American interests, but can’t because China won’t let him? Could this actually happen? We’ll discuss the dangerous foreign policy ramifications of America’s current...