James Warren

If Rep. Danny K. Davis is a man who deserved a seat near former Sen. Sam Ervin, it may be sadly fitting that last week he found himself in the...

If Ronald Reagan were in full control of his faculties, he just might gag. Next time you visit the capital, check out the corner of 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue,...

Even those at the top of their game confront demons. So it was last Thursday afternoon for German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. At the same moment Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was...

Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight and the Central Intelligence Agency have something in common. It's the jaundiced view of both of them held by Nicholas Cullather, an Indiana University...

There may be no more self-obsessed, power-conscious, back-stabbing town than Washington--with the exception, of course, of Hollywood. It's no accident that the two places have a rich, symbiotic relationship, with...

Midway through a melancholy Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing last week, spectators heard a rare declaration. "Daughter, welcome," Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) told a witness. It was 90 minutes...

When Kabanga Tshilonda faced the likelihood of deportation in January, he felt lost in a desert. "If you have no water and are thirsty, the first drop of water you...

Enough of the capital chatter about passage of the chemical weapons treaty and concessions the Republicans got from Bill Clinton in exchange for their votes. Tell me, instead, what Mike...

In the fourth or fifth hour of a congressional hearing on Thursday, Rod Blagojevich mentally threw up the white flag. "I tried to get in a word but it didn't...

President Clinton and Congress are chattering about taxes, mostly grandiose claims about cutting them and still balancing the budget. Confused, I turned to a capital ghost. The ghost knows the...