Frank James

by Frank James A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important, most interesting, or both, Washington-related stories. Israel and Palestinian leaders agreed to hold peace talks in...

by Frank James Former Clinton Administration Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a recent column in the Financial Times that has gotten much attention. The New York Times' David Brooks, for...

by Frank James A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important, most interesting, or both, Washington-related stories. President Bush was making a late-term bid for Middle East...

by Frank James A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important, most interesting, or both, Washington-related stories. Syria's decision to attend the Middle East peace conference in...

by Frank James For all the self-styled media critics who call into C-Span and other talk shows to insist the MSM don't ever tell the good news about what's happening...

President Kennedy greets Ft. Worth, Tex. crowd hours before his death in Dallas. Photo credit: REUTERS/JFK Library/The White House/Cecil Stoughton/Handout by Frank James Today is not only Thanksgiving but also...

by James Oliphant The Tribune's series of profiles of presidential candidates continues this week with a look at the campaign of Joseph Biden, the Democrat from Delaware. Biden, who has...

by Frank James Anyone who follows Congress and cares about its endangered tradition of compromise is a little more concerned after yesterday's announcement by Rep. Mike Ferguson, a Republican moderate...

by Frank James A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important, most interesting, or both, Washington-related stories. Freddie Mac, one of the major mortgage-financing companies, was hit...

by Frank James You may have heard of the E-Verify system the federal government wants employers to use to establish that workers are in the U.S. legally and thus eligible...