WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama took bipartisanship beyond civility to gosh-darn friendliness when he ambled across Lafayette Square to speak to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He rarely walks anywhere — strolling presidents drive the Secret Service crazy — but he decided strolling into enemy ...

There has been a lot of commentary in the last couple of weeks about how the Egyptian uprising may go the way of Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, or Ukraine’s Orange Revolution and Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution in 2005, or the Hamas elections in 2006, all of which began in euphoria and democrat...

NEW YORK —Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn’t leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk? The impulse t...

NEW YORK - The turmoil in Egypt has been a lesson in the fragility of a right we so often take for granted: To speak. It also has been a reminder to those who deride the lamestream media as the enemy, traitors and worse that many members of that maligned tribe are also very brave....

WASHINGTON — Having grown up in the Chicago area, rooting for years for the luckless Cubs and more recently for the hapless Washington Nationals, I feel particularly qualified to comment on the Obama administration’s struggles to find a useful role to play in the crisis wracking Egypt and the wi...

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As hundreds of thousands of Egyptians demonstrate to demand democracy, the country’s leaders are still trying to manage the process from above rather than negotiate a transition with opposition forces....

WASHINGTON — When the National Governors Association holds its winter meeting here starting on Feb. 26, I expect to see some initial steps in the 2012 presidential campaign. That three-day gathering will offer the first and best opportunity for the enlarged group of 29 Republican governors to cauc...

NEW YORK - He didn't say it. That word: exceptional. Barack Obama described an exceptional nation in his State of the Union address, but he studiously avoided using the word conservatives long to hear. It's a funny thing, this focus on a single word that isn't much heard from this president, but tha...

WASHINGTON — While I was out ill for six weeks in December and January, the world changed. Before that, the White House had badly misjudged the political climate. When I went to Ohio with Vice President Biden, he did his best to ignore the evidence of economic pain, giving a pep talk to skeptical ...