AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

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.

If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep your health insurance plan

Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.