Last, or Second from the Top
Despite the current media frenzy over both major party presidential candidates’ searches for running mates, if ever there…
Munich Still Can Drive Foreign Policy
With President Bush’s decision today to provide humanitarian aid (delivered by U.S. military aircraft and naval forces, no…
Presidential Polling an Inexact Science
In America, we don’t just want things, we want them now. Drive-thru McDonalds, Google on iPhones, overnight shipping…
Sports Lovers in the White House
Television coverage of this weekend’s first Olympic match-ups seemed at times a presidential Where’s Waldo, with President Bush…
Presidents Not Always in Olympic Spirit
With his decision to attend the opening ceremonies of the 29th Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, President Bush…
Convention Speeches: What to Expect
The National Conventions are fast approaching, and with them comes growing anticipation for their crowning moments — the presidential candidates nomination acceptance speeches.
A-Bomb Use Launched ‘New Era’
Rife with 'fateful risks' and swallowing over $2 billion, the fight was long and hard, but 63 years ago, the 'battle of the laboratories' finally drew to a close.
The Election’s Most Weighty Issue?
Presidents employ a wide range of tactics to remind us that they are, indeed, human: shopping in grocery…
When Movie Stars Meet Presidents
The BBC’s popular TV series Planet Earth may have turned polar bears and piranhas into celebrities, but eight…
D.C. Weakness for Special Weeks
They hover somewhere in the back of your good citizen mind, usually accompanied by the memory of a…