The Washington Times

It was supposed to have been the most exciting Senate race since Lincoln met Douglas, threatening even to eclipse the presidential contest for raw political interest. As early as 18 months before the November 2000 elections, all eyes were on New York as the singular, controversial Hillary Rodham Clinton descended on the state to seek the seat of retiring Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan.

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The Washington Times

Forgive a bit of political whimsy this week. The 2004 presidential election is far enough away that one can speculate freely, without the intrusion of stubborn facts, so why not? Question: What does George W. Bush do to give himself the best chance of re-election?

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The Washington Times

The first noteworthy intraparty skirmish of the Bush administration and Republicans on Capitol Hill got under way over a subject one might have thought an easy one for the GOP: defense spending.

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The Washington Times

Shortly after Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, People magazine (in an uncharacteristic nod to highbrow culture) ran a profile of the neoconservative intellectual couple Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz. She, a former editor at Basic Books, had founded the Committee for the Free World, whose purpose was to make the intellectual case for the institutions of freedom and against communism. He was the editor of Commentary magazine and had been mentioned as a possible head of the United States Information Agency (USIA).

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