Michael Tackett

If political conventions indeed have become a four-night series of television programs, the working title for next Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention should be "Real People." All day, Democratic...

Early in the battle over the Republican platform this week, Ralph Reed was talking to reporters about the remarkable solidarity of religious conservatives who unequivocally oppose abortion. But, someone asked,...

Bob Dole's campaign easily divined its new slogan: "A better man for a better America." In the minds of its creators and the candidate himself, it has the added benefit...

Bob Dole has always been his own most influential adviser. Throughout his Senate career, Dole was lauded as a master legislative tactician with an innate sense of what it took...

In the end, he could not bear the thought of a lengthy trial, the dwindling finances, the specter of friends and family being forced to testify, the front-page stories day...

Bob Dole played it cool Sunday while Lamar Alexander tried to turn some heat in Dole's direction and Pat Buchanan continued his torrid debate with what he likes to call...

In a 90-minute debate that sounded more like one long negative ad, Republican presidential candidates bickered bitterly Thursday over campaign tactics, economic anxiety and international trade. The tone of the...

Mickey Mantle's doctors revealed Sunday that they discovered a spreading cancer during his liver transplant operation in June, but went ahead with the procedure because otherwise he would have died...

Sen. Phil Gramm, a Republican presidential hopeful seeking to win the support of the religious Right, invested in an R-rated, soft-core movie production with his brother-in-law 20 years ago, according...

He is a serious man in a superficial age. He talks about the presidency the way children learn about it in grammar school. He writes his own books. No one...