Steve Jobs has just stepped down as CEO of Apple, handing the reins to Tim Cook and taking a role as Chairman of the Board. His letter noted: “I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. ...

Post-Perry, the Republican 2012 field seems stuck. You could tell by the bleats at Paul Ryan’s announcement Monday that he wasn’t yet willing to run for president that everyone is not overwhelmingly enthused by the current prospects. Instead of hosting any of the candidates, “Meet the Press”...

NEW YORK — Scene: An elevator in New York Presbyterian Hospital where several others and I were temporary hostages of a filthy-mouthed woman who was profanely berating her male companion. It wasn’t possible to discern whether he was her mate or her son, but his attire (baggy drawers) and insolen...

As he golfs and bikes on Martha’s Vineyard, President Barack Obama will have plenty of time to think about how to get his presidency back on track. Some aides are calling the major speech he plans to deliver after Labor Day a “reset” of his administration. That may understate its political imp...

WASHINGTON —  Is there anyone in the White House with nerve enough to tell Barack Obama that Martha’s Vineyard is the last place on earth that the president of the United States should find himself? Don’t get me wrong. I don’t begrudge the chief executive a little time off from the Oval...

WASHINGTON — After this past weekend, perhaps Republicans will finally end the disastrous Iowa Straw Poll. In five tries, the circus in Ames has picked a future president once, which is about the same success rate you’d get by picking names from a hat. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney w...

About that bus: What could the White House have been thinking? Here the country is reeling from depression, recession and oppression, and the president decides to take a heartland tour in the visual equivalent of an armored hearse? The infamous black bus that has been toting Barack Obama around for ...

NEW YORK — Texas Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry can resist the comparison all he wants, but he’s more like George W. Bush than George W. Bush. The comparisons were unavoidable. They’ve both been Texas governors. They’re both fluent in Bubba and both unapologetically ha...

NEW YORK — The latest trend in the media world is “trending.” That is, monitoring what people are buzzing about and directing coverage accordingly.  Just as the unspoken sometimes reveals more than the spoken, what’s not trending suggests more than what’s trending. In all the many tho...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia, a Tea Party favorite and president of the House Republicans’ freshman class, got off to a slow start as a legislator but finally introduced his first bill last week.  His draftsmanship should please the people who chant “read the bill” at polit...