James Warren

Even savvy members of the Bush administration don't really have a clue about the breadth of the government they tend to belittle and now seek to tame. "It really is...

Richard Armitage resembled a mildly simmering, bull-necked Ray Nitschke with a bad cold as he stoically tolerated the occasional inanities of the U.S. Congress. The balding, muscle-bound No. 2 official...

The U.S. House of Representatives, some of whose leaders have openly bragged about not having passports, was huffing, puffing and stuffing the nasty United Nations for being upset that we're...

Rep. Gil Gutknecht of Minnesota assured his colleagues on the House Agriculture Committee the other day that "if you've never tasted fresh Gummi Bears while they're warm, you've never lived."...

At a Washington affair drenched in civility and high-mindedness, loyal and ever-decorous Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana came close to throwing the bird to the Bush administration. "There are...

Far from the well-mannered political fray, Dr. Sally Satel is sitting demurely in a methadone clinic with a Satanist. Her many detractors, notably public health advocates on the ideological left,...

Divorce, the death of a loved one or loss of a job are among the searing events that can inspire the deepest melancholy. But for the likes of Larry Klayman,...

Forget about Marc Rich. If you want news about a far more controversial presidential pardon or commutation, go to the National Archives and listen to Richard Nixon cutting a deal...

What passes for high drama in the U.S. Senate, a vote on a technical amendment to a campaign finance bill, had just ended. As if infused with Benzedrine, the Capitol...

In place of nations, suggests John le Carre, we now have big drug companies. In the April 9 Nation, the author of famous spy novels, offers "In Place of Nations,"...