Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

There's no point trying to sugar-coat this or get Jesuitical about it. Yes, Russia tried to manipulate our election. It's appalling. Yes, it should be investigated and taken seriously.

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.