Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.

Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?