Because Richard Nixon was the first President for whom I could have voted for - I didn't - he has long held a special role in my life and my heart. In the day, it was nothing but anger and revulsion; since then, a more nuanced view. At the time, I thought he was destined to be one of the United Stat...

If you were to do a word count on Fox News or talk radio over the last two days, "socialism" would show up more often than Limbaugh's Chicken Wing and Oxycontin delivery service.   Here's the dependably nutty Glenn Beck going for a two-fer. We're on the road to socialism. So if we're going down...

Say hello, good evening and welcome to one of the greatest political movies ever. That bit of glorious hyperbole doesn't come from me, of course, but from the British tabloid The Sun. My sentiment would be, this was a pretty darn entertaining flick, but I really wish I could have seen the play. The ...

When Ron Howard met Richard Nixon, the former was in the middle of a brilliant career, the latter in the depths of nation-shaming personal ignominy. It was their only meeting. "It was in the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles in 1982," recalls Howard, now a 54-year-old, balding, bearded grandfather who ot...

A federal judge yesterday rejected the claim by a coalition of historians and nonprofit groups that Vice President Cheney intended to illegally discard some of his official records, and instead accepted the pledge of a senior White House aide that key Cheney documents and other materials will be......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

Look, I get that it is historic, but it has become pornographic. All the reporters come back from breaks flushed and breathing heavy. Good grief. The other night on Hannity, when Sean pointed out that Barack Obama had been on the cover of Time magazine 14 times, Lanny Davis rebutted that Nixon had b...