James Warren

Run this by us one more time. "I have never actually lived in Latvia," Ojars Kalnins, Latvia's ambassador to the U.S., said Thursday in a spare office bedecked with a...

Even Tom Edsall conceded that the evidence of Americans' political ignorance was stunning. I was chatting with Edsall, a Washington Post reporter and perhaps the most cerebral poker-playing writer on...

Jim Fallows has written a book about the Washington press corps and clearly has touched some nerves. Mild of manner and swift of pen, Fallows is Washington editor of the...

The stunning tale of White House deceit and cronyism can now be told. Your tax dollars go for feeding Scamper, the First Dog. A U.S. Park Service ranger occasionally walks...

"Thank god for Chuck Lewis. I can't stand doin' that stuff," a big-time Washington newspaper reporter said to me last week. If Lewis didn't exist, somebody would have to invent...

"I have nothing against him other than his illegal activities." -Aug. 23, 1986, e-mail message about Manuel Noriega from National Security Adviser John Poindexter to Oliver North. Tom Blanton is...

Afflicted with a terminal case of attention deficit disorder, it's no surprise that the press forgot about George Nethercutt Jr. The name should ring a bell as we prepare to...

Golden Domers, rejoice: All roads in the budget fiasco here may lead to South Bend. If your eyes glaze when you see the words "continuing resolution," or "ongoing government shutdown,"...

Yes, Charles Colson conceded, he did watch last week's cable TV movie "Nixon and Kissinger," starring Beau Bridges and Ron Silver, finding it historically accurate, "uncannily so." "I watched and...

If it was good enough for Vincent Sirabella, a man of uncommon alliances but more uncommon grace, maybe it's good enough for presidential politics and the mess in Bosnia. Sirabella...