James Warren

One need not have lived long in this smug and small town, especially as a journalist, before feeling the need for pharmacological help. It was thus fitting that, as the...

It was around midnight Wednesday, or maybe it was late Thursday, when Sen. Robert Byrd was characteristically invoking grand personages from a past that even predates him. It was time...

When a United Nations big shot told her she was being moved from Geneva to Washington last year, Karen Koning Abuzayd said, hold on, "We don't usually send people to...

Strange things can pass before your eyes as you exit the Capital YWCA, on the bleakest of blocks in the capital. It was 1 p.m. on a Saturday and there,...

Jim Wolfensohn was in Ivory Coast the other day, "meeting with coffee planters who have been taken advantage of for years by monopolies in selling their products." The well-heeled, cultured...

It was a quarter to three. There was nobody in the place, except Bill Clinton and me. Well, not quite. It was 10:15 p.m. last Monday and I found myself...

If only life were as simple for Richard Holbrooke as it is for the Natural Law Party. On Friday morning, the capital of staged events included a bevy of gabfests...

It had been 25 years since John Dean stepped into the federal courthouse here, during historic and inauspicious days for him and the nation. It was 1974, and Dean testified...

President Lyndon Johnson had a problem in the early evening of Oct. 14, 1964. Word was circulating that a top aide, Walter Jenkins, had been arrested for an intimate encounter...

John Powers spends his days with Richard Nixon, straining to hear the man's voice so that we may ultimately understand his actions. Given Nixon's muddled legacy, perhaps it's fitting to...