James Warren

As the huge-screen TV image of President Clinton towered over the AFL-CIO's election war room early Wednesday, the optimism of true believers was rampant. "I think we're doing it. I...

As pundits prattle over the money coming in to piggy politicians, get this: Andy Jacobs is giving funds back to his campaign contributors. It's a fitting way to punctuate the...

This much is clear about America: a floppy-eared, billionaire blowhard easily outdraws a man who changed the world. A day after Ross Perot filled a ballroom, and coyly and joyfully...

Bob Dole's attempt to persuade Ross Perot to quit the presidential race backfired Thursday, returning the gleeful Texan to center stage to ridicule a "weird and totally inconsequential" gambit he...

To Lyndon Johnson and Everett Dirksen, the secret to life apparently was a glass of Scotch, a big red steak and a woman. If there's doubt, it may be dispelled...

"Mr. Warren, you are heading for disaster!" the Washington icon thundered. Cokie Roberts? No, it was Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) assuring me Friday that Chicago will not be well-served...

With the earnest air of a new, true believer, the man told the audience about his just-adopted, 18-month-old Chinese daughter named Lilly and how she's changed his life. At age...

"What's the problem with the Bears?" asked John Kasich. "Wannstedt seems like a good coach." The Republican congressman from Ohio, an appealingly manic member of the GOP leadership, had switched...

"You know what they're saying, don't you?" Rep. Bob Dornan, the least reticent soul in the Congress, asked me rather rhetorically. "Clinton was snorting five lines of cocaine a day....

Clinton, Dole, Perot, Kemp, Gore, tax cuts, bridges to another century, Dick Morris, debates, and "the character issue." The men and matters consuming this town are numbing. Relief had to...