Nights in Rodanthe ** ...more

February 12, 2009

Slowly, painfully, self-awareness has come to George W. Bush. "Turns out this isn't one of these presidencies where you ride off into the sunset, you know, waving goodbye," the president told the conservative American Enterprise Institute in December. ...more

January 11, 2009

The Bush administration on Saturday blamed the more than week-old onslaught in the Gaza Strip squarely on Hamas militants, but did not mention the invasion of Israeli ground troops into Gaza and avoided any criticism of Israel despite mounting world outrage over the growing death toll. ...more

January 4, 2009

Well, we Republicans have just made history. Not the type of history we wanted to make, mind you, but history nonetheless. Not only did we lose the White House but, after losing our House and Senate majorities in 2006, we followed it up Tuesday night with even steeper losses in Congress. ...more

November 8, 2008

Behind every great man or woman in Washington there is a great painting. As the Bush presidency draws to a close, portrait artists can expect a surge in business from Cabinet secretaries and other elite political appointees who want to preserve their legacies - and their images - for posterity. ...more

October 22, 2008

The battle for the White House is now a 60-day sprint, with John McCain and Barack Obama in pursuit of an elusive political catch: undecided voters who will pick the next president. ...more

September 8, 2008

With his moves last week involving Iraq, Iran and North Korea, President Bush accelerated a shift toward centrist foreign policies, a change that has cheered Democrats, angered some Republicans and roiled the presidential campaign. ...more

July 20, 2008

Scott McClellan is having a "Matrix" moment - the moment when you wake up, with a jolt, from the reassuring fictions of the media dream world to the face-slapping reality of unspun fact. ...more

June 13, 2008

Near the end of "What Happened," Scott McClellan's tough-love critique of President Bush and his failed presidency, he recounts a bizarre and telling moment in the Oval Office. ...more

June 1, 2008

If your holiday shopping this season finds you in a bookstore, ask for the section on presidential history. You'll find literally hundreds of works of presidential history. ...more

December 19, 2007