James Warren

"I only use it in stressful moments," said the president's senior policy adviser. There in a cubbyhole just off the Oval Office, virtually hidden from view, was George Stephanopoulos' Magic...

"My mother-in-law," said the president's chief of staff. If that's a "Jeopardy" sort of answer, the question of Leon Panetta was, "Who do you talk to when you need a...

Bill Gould suffers a malady rare among high-ranking figures in the Clinton administration: the dreaded Curse of the Bambino. The chairman of the National Labor Relations Board conceded same last...

There's a wonderful Hollywood term for a financial windfall that allows an actor, writer or producer to do or say whatever he or she chooses. It's called "---- you money."...

Alone and nearly anonymous, Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary traveled Friday to the Caribbean coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Finally, for O'Leary, the time was right to return. She would, during...

If ignorance is bliss, rapture may have descended on America. To have lived in the capital in these early days of the Age of Newt, and to have watched a...

Windbag Sen. Joseph Biden was doing a slow whine Thursday afternoon. The Delaware Democrat had sat through two hours of Senate Judiciary Committee questioning of Chicago attorney John Schmidt, a...

"You know what they say: You can never go wrong underestimating the intelligence of the American public," ho-ho-hoed TV's John McLaughlin, with the aggressive bonhomie of a dime-store Santa, as...

The outwardly mild-mannered fellow, sitting in office space he shares with a capital law firm, says softly, "I practice outlaw journalism." "It's not straight, up-and-down objective," said Brock Meeks. "I'm...

"Tonight, on `PrimeTime Live, it's Ripoff-City!' " the ABC announcer might intone with basso gravity. "Sam Donaldson reveals how urban yuppies, accountants and other city slickers are really farm banditos,...