USC parents packed into the Forum at Tutor Campus Center on Thursday to hear two long-time rivals from opposite sides of the ...

If you're not yet convinced that the United States of America is the most tolerant, broad-minded and forgiving nation on Earth, then you probably haven't been paying enough attention to the amazing ...

At an August 1 campaign stop in Taylor, Michigan, Sen. John Kerry made what in retrospect appears to have been the most self-destructive of his many sports-related electioneering errors: He dissed his ...

Boston TONIGHT JOHN KERRY will deliver the most important speech of his 30-year-long political career. And Terry Edmonds wants you to know the senator wrote the speech himself. Edmonds, 54, is the ...

The ubiquitous and talented Ryan Lizza shows up in the most recent issues of both The Atlantic and The New Republic, and he’s talking Shrum. Bob Shrum, that is — Kerry’s senior advisor is having his ...

There is a history of political consultants leaving Washington after a tour of duty and heading west, to try their hand at California politics or even Hollywood screenwriting. Two prominent examples ...

What nominee would bet on the proposition that the presidential debates don’t matter and then choose not to prepare? Jimmy Carter’s desultory prep in 1980, combined with Ronald Reagan’s reassuring and ...

On Monday, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews hosted a panel discussion on the Republican members of Congress who have been vocally critical of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) for her citing a report that claimed ...

There may be three Democrats in the "top tier" of presidential candidates, but on gay issues we now have a clear frontrunner. Judging by the position papers put out by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ...

Movin' On Up: Just over a year ago, Democratic strategist Bob Shrum and his wife, Marylouise Oates, paid $1.2 million for a 13-room home on Cleveland Avenue in Northwest Washington. They put out a ...