I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.