Yes, but is it good for the Jews? That's the punch line of a long-running joke among those of us who grew up among Jewish parents and grandparents whose first reaction to almost any event would be to calculate how it would affect the tribe. Looking at life through such a parochial lens is hardly ......

The arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) on bribery charges relating to the appointment of a senator to replace Barack Obama turns what was already a difficult situation into one fraught with political peril....

President-elect Barack Obama announced yesterday that he will resign his Senate seat effective Sunday, leaving Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) to choose from among a host of willing successors for the final two years of the Democrat's term....

President Barack Obama.   Just say it and feel the endorphins rush in. And Rahm Emanuel is Chief of Staff.   Jan Schakowsky's name has been floated to replace Obama in the senate.    It is all very Chicago centric, and so nice and liberal.  And sur...

Two days after his damaging defeat in Pennsylvania last month, Barack Obama gathered his wife and senior campaign staff around the dining room table of his Chicago home....

"We can never understand [a House member’s] Washington activity without also understating his perception of his various constituencies and the home style he uses to cultivate their support…" states Richard Fenno in Home Style: House Members in Their Districts . Fenno understands that the work...