T. Boone Pickens has his own way of saying things. Over the clink of silver on china in a Mayflower Hotel ballroom yesterday, the oil billionaire greeted a crowd of energy executives with an account of a speech he gave a year ago in which he realized after a few minutes that his clip-on microphone w...

Apparently John McCain was operating under a 120-day cooling-off period. In the four months since the presidential race, the former Republican nominee has been, for the most part, a graceful loser, returning to the Senate to lead the loyal opposition with dignity. But yesterday, he exploded. "I hope...

It takes a certain amount of nerve to have an event at the National Press Club and then ban the press from covering it. It takes another level of chutzpah entirely to admit members of the general public to your event at the National Press Club, recruit a news organization as the co-sponsor and then ...

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It's hard at this point to look ahead to the presidential election and its aftermath without looking back at the wreckage. And so, in the continued avalanche of newspaper endorsements of Democrat Barack Obama, a successful presidency is frequently being defined as the precise opposite of the current...

WASHINGTON -- In a candid moment during his speech this week at the National Council of La Raza's annual convention, John McCain acknowledged he was addressing a largely skeptical audience. "I know many of you are Democrats, and many of you would usually vote for the presidential candidate of that p...

REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT, UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: Over the next few days, prominent scholars of the African-American religious tradition from several different disciplines -- theologians, church historians, ethicists, professors of the Hebrew bible, homiletics, hermeneutics, and historians of religi......

As the Bush presidency staggers to an end, it's hard to say who has less to brag about: the president or the journalists who cover him. So it's fitting that the last White House Correspondents' Association dinner of the Bush era -- the ultimate celebration of chumminess between the most powerful peo...