Are you running for something?” Richard Nixon asked Dan Rather at a March 1974 press conference. “No, sir, Mr. President,” the CBS newsman replied. “Are you?” Five months later, Nixon left the White House in disgrace. Three decades after that,…

THE BAD NEWS CAME in an Associated Press dispatch July 8 titled “PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama Tax Pledge Unrealistic.” Candidate Barack Obama had promised not to raise taxes “on anyone but the wealthiest Americans.” But President Obama had already violated that…

It’s too early to tell if the anti-tax-and-spend “tea party” movement will fizzle or develop into a serious opposition to President Obama’s domestic policies. But at the very least, it is newsworthy when thousands of Americans gather around the country…

It appeared in the April 1 edition, but otherwise there was no reason to think David Leonhardt’s New York Times column was a joke. It was, however, a shock: In the summer of 1933, just as they will do on…

Throughout George W. Bush’s second term, journalists puzzled over why, even after opinion polls showed Americans to have soured on the Iraq war, no serious antiwar movement emerged. More recently, journalists have puzzled over why movies about the Iraq war…

What do Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, and Muammar Qaddafi have in common? All of them write for the New York Times op-ed page. Qaddafi, who made his debut on the page in January, has been Libya’s dictator since…

Barack Obama ran for president promising to win back the respect of “the world,” which George W. Bush has alienated. So the big question is this: How long after Obama’s inauguration will it take before “the world” begins to sour…

After the 2004 election, conservatives loved blogs. “As CBS News can tell you, the rise of the Internet… is the latest and perhaps most explosive change that is shrinking liberal media dominance,” wrote Brian Anderson in his 2005 book, South…

“In Lebanon,” John McCain declared in his second debate with Barack Obama, “I stood up to President Reagan, my hero, and said, if we send Marines in there, how can we possibly beneficially affect this situation? And said we shouldn’t….

I HAD THE PRIVILEGE of living most of my life in a small town,” Sarah Palin told the Republican National Convention. “I was just your average hockey mom.” To John McCain’s supporters, his selection of Alaska’s young, reform-minded governor as…