Eleanor Clift

Why Clinton's skills might actually hurt her campaign.

Forget the Hill vote. Focus on the families.

Some think Hillary's a lock. History cautions otherwise.

What the gritty bravery of journalists from Iraq, Mexico and Zimbabwe can teach us about America and moral responsibility.

Jimmy Carter has been called a bigot, an anti-Semite, a liar, a plagiarist and a coward. By the time the former president appeared on the Jay Leno show toward the end of a grueling national tour to promote his book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," Carter was losing his voice.

Neither side fully trusts the 'Independent' senator as he straddles an awkward divide between his former party and his Republican friends.

Howard Dean has been oddly quiet lately while intraparty squabbling over the Dems' primary calendar escalates. What gives?

Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is one of the leading proponents of a Senate resolution opposing President Bush's plan to send additional combat troops into Iraq.

Molly Ivins, 62 The Austin-based reporter described her battle against breast cancer with her signature caustic wit: "First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you.

Hillary Clinton has built up a serious lead. But momentum changes; it always does in campaigns. Can she survive the shifts?

A new film by the Oscar-winning director of 'Crash' spotlights the growing ranks of U.S. combat veterans who are returning from battle scarred by PTSD.

The man they call 'Tailpipe John' on Capitol Hill for his tight ties to the auto industry has had a change of heart on global warming and carbon emissions. Or has he?

Bush's report on Iraq may have shored up his support in the Senate. But his determination to keep 130,000 U.S. troops there has left a gap for a parade of prime-time Democrats to turn Red States blue in the '08 election.

Two gatherings in the nation's capital help point up the difference between theorizing about war—and fighting one.

September marks the media rollout for the next stage of the White House campaign to keep boots on the ground in Iraq. Will General Petraeus stick to the script?

Having chronicled every stage of life, author Gail Sheehy now has insights on the final stages--from the view of a caregiver. One thing she's learned: Government doesn't always help.

Fourteen video cameras lined the ballroom of the National Press Club on a steamy August day, drawn by the back-to-the-future presence of Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker and possible presidential candidate.

Newt Gingrich carries some political baggage, but he knows how to shake up the system. It may be just what America needs for 2008.

Inside the antiwar movement's effort to embarrass the GOP into changing its position on Iraq.

A new play about the life of a young woman run down by Israeli forces in Gaza may be politically controversial, but it speaks to cross-cultural human truths that deserve an audience.

The media treated the Senate's all-night session as a comedy routine, a chance to make jokes about sleepovers and pizza delivery. Everybody knew going in that the Democrats didn't have the votes to pass an amendment calling for the draw down of troops beginning in 120 days.

George Voinovich has broken ranks with Republicans to criticize Bush's Iraq War policy. Why he thinks he's making a difference.

It was always obvious that President Bush would not let Scooter Libby go to jail. The real tragedy of the affair is that more people weren't tagged with his crime.

A longtime confidant of the Bush and Cheney families describes the dangerous influence of the vice president.

It was classic Biden. He was late for lunch and would have to leave early, but in the 20 minutes he stayed and took questions, he got more words out than most politicians do in twice the time.

The left wing of the Democratic Party is back from the wilderness. They're revved up and ready to take the best shot they've had in a long time at putting someone simpatico in the White House.

Republican Mary Matalin says she is often asked whether she's ever changed her husband's mind about anything, and the answer is yes--keeping pets and rescuing animals.

The former Arkansas governor is an ordained Baptist minister who has eloquently handled questions about evolution in the GOP debates. But he's languishing in the polls. He thinks social conservatives could become irrelevant in the Republican Party. Is he right?

Al Qaeda had a plan—and it is working. Osama bin Laden's survival may be the Bush administration's biggest political failing.

The immigration deal worked out between Senate leaders and the White House is an unwieldy compromise nobody much likes. Democrats will mostly support it because the liberal lion, Ted Kennedy, is leading the charge.