Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Who could forget "shock and awe" or "the Bush Doctrine" or, for that matter, "Mission Accomplished"? Who could forget, but then again, who would want to remember? Chris Matthews, one of the true superstars of cable, makes a good case for remembering tonight with a special edition of his "Hardball" s...

About the only takeaway from this piece is that Sean Wilentz's hold on the title of Greatest Wanker in the American Historical Profession remains secure for another quarter. The article itself is quite awful in its own right. Its thesis is little more than a secularized version of "The One" ad that ...

Meet George W. Bush, time traveler. He's in Poland in 1939 as Nazi tanks advance on Warsaw, then flying with his Navy-pilot father to battle imperial Japan. He's alongside Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, William McKinley on his deathbed and Franklin D. Roosevelt on D-Day. He lingers with Ha......

Meet George W. Bush, time traveler. He's in Poland in 1939 as Nazi tanks advance on Warsaw, then flying with his Navy-pilot father to battle imperial Japan. He's alongside Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, William McKinley on his deathbed and Franklin D. Roosevelt on D-Day. He lingers with Ha......

It's hard not to feel a little bad for Paul Krugman and Sean Wilentz, Princeton's two Big Time academics who seem hell-bent on going down with the Good Ship Clinton when the real party's somewhere else. Wilentz, a famous American historian, has moved on from spitting at Obama for playing the race ca...