Terence Samuel

Democrats may find themselves going into to the next election tagged as the party that couldn’t stop Bush when given a chance, or as the party that did not try hard enough.

Going back to work on Capitol Hill was just one in a long series of poor choices made by the toe-tapping senator from Idaho.

Recent hearings on reforming drug sentencing laws show that John Edwards may be onto something with his bold declarations that we need to re-evaluate how we as a society are treating young black men.

Half a century after the Little Rock Nine, Bill O’Reilly comes to Harlem. Too bad he hasn’t visited our schools. Or our polling places.

The veteran Virginia senator was supposed to provide the exit ramp for other GOP senators seeking to abandon the president. Then why did he — and so many of his colleagues — vote against the Webb amendment?

Despite Bush’s embrace of the Petraeus report, it will be Republicans who pay the steepest price for the continuation of the war.

Legislation that forces the beginning of a withdrawal, but remains silent on a definitive end-date, could be the compromise that brings Democrats and Republicans together. It might also be the out that Bush needs.

The senator from Idaho knew all along the contradiction he was living. Walking that line for so many years must have taken a toll.

At the heart of the Michael Vick scandal is the question of whether he can remake himself from a disgraced sports superstar to a man who made a serious mistake, but faced the truth and redeemed himself.

This week Bush finally started talking about the connection between Iraq and Vietnam — but he’s missing the true lessons.