Terence Samuel

This fall was expected to be Moment of Truth time for Bush’s Iraq policy. But GOP defections are already happening, and the summer isn’t nearly over yet.

Claire McCaskill, who has Harry Truman’s old Senate seat, returns from Iraq with some blunt talk on the war and contracting abuse.

Last week was hardly the last we’ll hear of the immigration bill during this Congress. The Senate just works slowly — as it’s supposed to.

Two scandalous individuals reappeared in the headlines this week: Bill Jefferson and Scooter Libby. The presence of both does more to obscure than reveal important issues.

The anti-war movement’s anger is understandable — but the danger of over-reaction is serious.

If any of the political elements that led us to go into Iraq influence the fight over getting out of it, we’re in trouble.

Bill Richardson’s “job interview” ads may have been created for Iowa voters, but they’re influencing political opinion makers as they circulate on the Web.

Winning the fight at home over the war, Democrats should plan for the peace abroad — and pursue Mid-East diplomacy themselves.

The key similarity between the two wars is how they eroded the American people’s trust in their government.

In the aftermath of the 2000 election, I hung up from an interview with Harry Reid to immediately find his press spokesman — who had been on the call — calling back frantically to spin something Reid had said about Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Needless to say, what Reid had to say about […]