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Even a year ago, most of us would have thought that if the president was said to have paid $130,000 in hush money to a pornographic film actress known as [...]

Yes, it's true that Hillary Clinton got more votes, but he got the votes of more than 62 million people -- and I am pretty sure I don't know any [...]

They call it ''transparency,'' and it's all the rage in serious circles. Everyone wants more of it, as long as it's not their own secrets being revealed. Those are much [...]

''Whither NATO'' is probably the greatest snoozer headline of the past half-century. It has been used on editorials, op-ed articles, think-tank reports -- anyplace an editor wants to communicate, ''I've [...]

Finally some details. On Tuesday, the Trump administration released a reasonably detailed budget for the year 2018. Since no one thinks that President Trump is a conventional Republican, this is [...]

Donald Trump is a hated figure -- more hated than any political figure in America. In Washington you can just assume that any random person you talk with agrees with [...]

The White House Correspondents Dinner is one of the most repulsive social events in Washington. And you should go once, if you get the chance. You are packed like sardines [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED ''Page One: Inside The New York Times'' is a documentary about this newspaper and the people who put it out. All of these people know far more than [...]

It can't be easy to create a financial thriller. There's no blood, there are (usually) no bodies. How do you create excitement when most of the action consists of middle-aged [...]

Bill Kristol almost single-handedly defeated health care reform last time by persuading Republicans it was O.K. to say there was no serious problem. Nevertheless, there he was in the moments [...]

WHY are we reading Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights instead of taking him somewhere and forcibly finding out where he got the explosive underwear and whatever else he might [...]

SOMEWHERE at Microsoft, there is a closet packed with leftover Slate umbrellas -- a monument to the folly of asking people to pay for what they read on the Internet. […]

STROLLING through the Pentagon City Costco last week, I could feel my consumer confidence draining away. Even the bargains at Linens 'n Things around the corner, which is going out […]

We are surrounded by images of white men in suits. There might be 20 of them photographed sitting around a conference table (the board of directors in 1955) or just […]

THE purpose of a party platform is pandering, but it is pandering of a particular sort. The Democratic Party's platform committee has produced its 2008 edition, and now this draft […]

For Democrats, it's been a long time between swoons. Anyone younger than 60 was too young to vote in 1968, when Gene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy last stirred genuine excitement […]

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY Jr. famously claimed that he could -- and did -- write a column in 20 minutes. I saw him do it once. It was after one of […]

IF it's a question of 'experience' versus 'change,' change will win every time. Hillary Clinton, of all people, should have known that. Doesn't she remember 1992? That was when her […]

WHEN the Republicans in Congress impeached President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, they insisted that it wasn't about sex, it was about lying. Of course that wasn't true. […]

IN 1946, Warren E. Avis (who died last month at the age of 92) had an idea: rental cars should be available at airports. So he founded Avis Airlines Rent-a-Car. […]

President Clinton is getting a lot of free advice about how to deal with Tuesday's election disaster. Most of it is telling him to abandon his left-wing agenda and rediscover […]

It seems the self-proclaimed Christian right can dish it out, but they can't take it. They have called President Clinton every name in the book. The Rev. Jerry Falwell is […]