James Warren

So much for America, the melting pot. One guy named Ryan is stepping down as Illinois governor, another guy named Ryan is instantly running to succeed him and a third...

While the dysfunctional House was hyperventilating over a patients' bill of rights last week, a committee in the genteel Senate was seeking a solution for a "national problem" whose existence...

The Capital Spin Machine operates every day. But it's rare that one can peek inside a central element of American government. Spin. It's the word for crafting an issue or...

If Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley had forgotten about bypassing Charles Ramsey when he picked a new police chief in 1998, he's surely been reminded in recent weeks--assuming he reads...

You can immerse yourself in all the data produced by the Census Bureau. But if you want a handy snapshot of America, there's also the Alexandria Avalanche. The Avalanche are...

A prominent conservative journalist told me Friday about a friend trying to lure President Bush to a big banquet. Forget a letter boasting of big pols who'd be there, he...

As he began a legislative marathon testing every vestige of personal humility, Donald Rumsfeld seemed to be gazing up at a black Jesus. There he was, in the House Armed...

The witness seemed so perfectly at ease, so very much at home. You might not have known that she is an outsider now, content to have exited the capital's often...

Indiana's cantankerous Rep. Dan Burton was unavailable to chair the House Government Reform Committee for personal reasons Friday. His Republican colleague, Christopher Shays, wasn't so lucky. With Burton's beaming portrait...

Deep in the heart of Russia sits a nearly completed, $640 million concrete and steel structure designed to store plutonium from Russia's dismantled nuclear weapons. But the Russians didn't pay...