Jonathan Darman

A new book tries to make sense of the gripping, grating psychodrama that is the Clintons' marriage.

Chuck Hagel wears pain on his face. The senior senator from Nebraska earned two Purple Hearts in Vietnam, where a mine blew out his eardrums and delivered a sharp burn up the left side of his head.

In an interview with NEWSWEEK, the GOP presidential hopeful looks for some separation from the president.

Voters can't connect with a candidate they feel they don't know. Mitt Romney has to decide how much he wants to share.

If all hope is lost, Gingrich could, at the very least, articulate the GOP party platform.

In an interview with NEWSWEEK, the front runner talks about what she knows now that she didn't know then.

Hillary Clinton has been in politics long enough to know the value of the word "change." In 1992, her husband's political guru, James Carville, hung a white sign in the Clinton campaign war room that read CHANGE VS.

The Idaho Republican defiantly proclaimed his heterosexuality to the press amid a political feeding frenzy over his guilty plea to charges of disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport men's room. Will his conservative constituents buy it?

Conscious of their community's financial clout, gay activists want action on equality issues, not just talk.

Edwards's poverty campaign echoes RFK's, but times have changed (and Edwards is no RFK).

Contributed by Jonathan Darman and Arian Campo-FloresWhen Judi Giuliani referred to her "big testosterone-factor husband" in the pages of Harper's Bazaar in February, her remarks were widely ridiculed and seen as evidence that the former New York mayor's new wife might not be quite ready for prime time.

Party affiliation has always been a fleeting thing for Michael Bloomberg. When the billionaire and lifelong Democrat ran as a Republican for mayor of New York City in 2001, his conversion had nothing to do with epiphany and everything to do with expediency (as the GOP candidate, he'd face an easier primary field and could spare himself the labyrinthine nominating process he'd face on the Democratic side).

Some grudges just don't die. In the 1990s, David Bossie worked tirelessly as an investigator for Rep. Dan Burton's government-reform committee. Burton was a top-echelon antagonist to Bill and Hillary Clinton, leading wide-ranging investigations of Whitewater and campaign finance.

Supporters are breathing a sigh of relief that two new bios of Hillary Clinton don't deliver any salacious new nuggets. But they might expose something worse.

It's another first: the spouse of an ex-president running for the White House. What role is he playing, and what would he do as, yes, 'First Gentleman'?

With the vice president's health acting up again and his approval rating below even the president's, the Dick Cheney for President movement is hardly catching fire.

Lance Armstrong took your questions during a Live Talk on Wednesday, April 4, about his personal and political fight against cancer.

Rudy Giuliani had been speaking for six minutes before anyone in the audience thought to clap, which was exactly the way he wanted it. Talking to a political crowd in North Spartanburg, S.C., last month, the former New York City mayor and 2008 presidential candidate was not there to excite but to warn; he was less interested in making political promises than he was in sketching out the perils we face.

There is something a little too good to be true about Mitt Romney. The former governor of Massachusetts and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination is so buff and handsome in late middle age that when a brochure from a recent campaign showed him standing, bare-chested, on a swimming float, he was accused of sexually pandering to women voters.

In the fall of 2005, John Edwards sat down with a pad and pen and scrawled out three simple words: "I was wrong." It was nearly three years after he'd joined a Senate majority in voting to authorize war in Iraq.

Joe Biden has spent a lifetime in the shadows of Democratic presidential candidates, wondering why the spotlight wasn't on him. The Delaware senator, now the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is perhaps his party's most senior statesman on foreign policy.

In late October, departing Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney huddled with a godly group. Gathered in his kitchen were 15 of the country's leading evangelicals, including giants like Jerry Falwell, Franklin Graham and Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention.

This year, former vice presidential candidate John Edwards crisscrossed the country, speaking out against poverty and the Iraq war. Edwards said he was getting back to the working-class causes he cared about.

For a moment, at least, John McCain and Hillary Clinton shared a common cause. It was one week after the midterm elections. They were back in the Senate, back in their seats on the Armed Services Committee, back to venting about Iraq.

Like any newly elected congressman, Indiana's Brad Ellsworth has a lot to learn. Before he had even digested his victory over Republican incumbent John Hostettler last week, Ellsworth was poring over forms and factoids, shipped straight to Indiana from some new friends on Capitol Hill. "They're asking me what kind of BlackBerry I want," said a mildly exasperated Ellsworth. "I don't know what kind of BlackBerry I want.

Modern political campaigns are scripted to a tedious fault--except when they're not. Sooner or later, candidates will say or do something off the cuff that their opponents just will not let them live down.

All politics is local, except when it isn't. Next week Americans will head to the polls with national and international issues on their minds. Chief among them: Iraq, the top issue for 29 percent of voters in the NEWSWEEK Poll (the largest percentage for any issue, followed by the economy at 21 percent).

Tennessee's Harold Ford Jr. is running from his party in one of the must-win Senate races for the Democrats. His story--and the stakes on Election Day.

For more than a year, Mark Warner had some of the best buzz of the 2008 presidential sweepstakes thanks to the impressive list of "formers" on his résumé: former tech entrepreneur, former venture capitalist, former governor of Virginia.

When I designed ["The O'Reilly Factor"] in 1995, I never felt that I was going to be in the middle of a culture war. But [now], with the click of a mouse, you can get hyper-partisanship on the Internet.I don't get invited to parties.