Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who is Israel’s most decorated soldier but was also the Prime Minister who once offered Yasser Arafat 98% of Jerusalem, announced his resignation Monday. Barak said he wants to spend more time with his family.
In the fall of 1997, I joined Harvard’s environmental science and public policy program. In the introductory class, co-taught with the Kennedy School of Government, we were encouraged to think of politics as a process of social learning, in which
On the stump, President Barack Obama often insinuated to black voters that Republicans would take them back to the pre-Civil Rights era of Jim Crow, but his economy has wiped out nearly all the gains the black middle class has
Entertainment mogul David Geffen gets the “This Is Your Life” treatment this week courtesy of PBS. PBS’ “American Masters: Inventing David Geffen” covers Geffen’s rise to the top of the Hollywood heap. The documentary also reveals why Geffen, who is
It has been said that Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and Bill Clinton’s lies about his affair with Monica Lewinsky respectively started and accelerated the distrust Americans have for both political parties, elected officials, its institutions, and the federal government. But
As though it was a natural part of his name, CNN’s Carol Costello just referred to former-CIA Chief David Petraeus as “disgraced David Petraeus.” No one’s excusing the fact that Petraeus betrayed his wife, but isn’t that a little harsh?
In response to revelations of the extramarital affair that now former CIA Chief David Petraeus admitted to over the weekend, liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin scoffed at the idea of holding highly placed public figures to account for their personal behavior.
When the Swift Boat scandal first emerged in 2004, Bill Clinton reportedly called John Kerry, telling him that he better figure out a way to make it disappear. “If you are the issue in a campaign,” Clinton told Kerry, “you’ll
The Romney landslide I predicted back on May 30th, and in the media virtually every day since then, is materializing. The signs are everywhere that Obama is enjoying his farewell tour. These are the last days of his political career.
When your opening act is an accused rapist and molester of women, a man who lied to a grand jury and was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, a man who actually stood in the Rose Garden of the
The 2012 Presidential campaign will be decided in the tree-lined cul-de-sacs that dominate the American landscape. Rural voters are reliably Republican and urban voters are reliably Democrat. But, suburban voters are the swingy-est of voters. In many states, they decide
Romney/Ryan momentum is alive and well in the state of Iowa, and it might be carrying outspoken Republican congressman Steve King along to another term fighting the good fight in Washington D.C. CBS News noticed Wednesday: The Romney campaign believes that
Over the past several days, my colleague Joel Pollak and I have noted that the ground seemed to be shifting in deep blue Minnesota. Although no Republican presidential candidate has won the state since 1972, there were signs that the
How worried is the Obama campaign about Minnesota, one of the bluest of blue states? This worried: they’re sending Bill Clinton there for a visit tomorrow. Clinton is taking his show around the country to states where Obama’s firewall is
Leading Obama campaign strategists addressed reporters gruffly on a hastily convened conference call this morning, attempting to spin drifting poll numbers into a coherent message. “We’re winning this race,” senior political strategist David Axelrod insisted, citing early voting data. He
Former President Bill Clinton went to Waterbury, Connecticut on Sunday to campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy (D-WFP), as well as Elizabeth Esty (D-WFP), who is running for the state’s 5th congressional district seat. Esty is the wife of
Based on his economic election model, Yale University economist Ray Fair predicts that GOP nominee Mitt Romney will pull out a sparse victory in November. Fair’s model accounts for the winners of every election but two since 1916. The two–the
Looks like Larry O’Connor won the office pool guessing when the CorruptMedia would manufacture a Narrative that said Romney peaked too soon in the polls. I assumed the media would wait until Monday, but already it’s bubbling up — even
Less than a week after Sec. of State Hillary Clinton fell on the sword for Obama over Benghazi, her husband Bill Clinton has sided with Mitt Romney’s charge that Obama hasn’t fixed economy. Soon after arriving in Peru earlier in
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly accepting blame for the security failures in Libya the night before a hugely important presidential debate might be nothing more than a fabricated set-up to allow President Obama to dig himself out of a
Following yesterday’s pre-debate claim of “responsibility” by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the death of four Americans during an apparent 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama campaign sent a well-timed fundraising email out
The Obama administration’s decision to block oil drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) is the latest symbol of an energy policy that could be described as “none of the above.” It is an even worse decision when
Bruce Springsteen vowed earlier this year not to sing for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. Then the Boss saw those polling trends. Now, the New Jersey rocker is hitting the road on behalf of the beleaguered president. On Thursday, Bruce
U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, lost in a primary this year, despite being endorsed by both Obama and Bill Clinton. However, the House Committee on Ethics is not through with him, opting to extend an on going investigation until
