Michael Tackett

In lofty theory, the roads of law and politics are not supposed to intersect, let alone collide. But of course they do. Politicians make laws. Politically connected people are appointed...

Despite legal setbacks and a rapidly approaching deadline, Vice President Al Gore emerged Tuesday from the White House to dismiss suggestions that he concede defeat and to deliver an upbeat,...

Defending his staunchly conservative voting record in Congress on the eve of the Republican National Convention, GOP vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney said Sunday he would be willing to reverse...

The head of a Justice Department task force has recommended appointment of a special counsel to investigate Vice President Al Gore's role in fundraising irregularities in the 1996 presidential campaign,...

Texas Gov. George W. Bush on Tuesday proposed slashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal even if Russia doesn't agree to identical cuts. His proposal came as the Joint Chiefs of Staff,...

Since Republican Sen. Barry's Goldwater's disastrous 1964 run for the presidency, no presidential nominee has proposed major changes in Social Security, which is often called the third rail of American...

Bill Bradley, the Rhodes scholar, the basketball star, the Olympian and the senator, had never really lost anything before. For once in his storybook life, Bradley's seemingly innate understanding of...

Distinctly lowering the temperature in what has become an increasingly heated contest, Republican presidential candidates put on their positive faces in a debate Thursday, hoping to attract rather than repel...

The booming American economy seems to have had at least one profound effect on the race for the Democratic presidential nomination: There's apparently not much to fight about. There are...

The modern standard for presidential candidates initially is set at perfection. But question by question, cut by cut, yesterday's can't-miss hero is whittled down. At the start, fealty in marriage...