Steve Daley

Perhaps when Jesse Jackson left Chicago for Washington last year, he thought the questions would get easier. They have not. Perhaps when he left Operation PUSH for the National Rainbow...

From the moment Virginia Democrat Douglas Wilder got himself elected as the nation`s first black governor last year, analysts and pundits began fashioning a new equation for politics in black...

Mayor Marion Barry was convicted Friday on one count of possessing cocaine, but the judge declared a mistrial on 12 other counts in a stunning end to a trial that...

Apparently, George Bush is mad enough to pave over the White House horseshoe pit. White House Chief of Staff John Sununu is mad enough to eat 1,000 calories. Those pesky...

After long months of investigation and argument, the House wrapped up its internal investigation of Rep. Barney Frank and rendered a judgment last Thursday. Many House Republicans, and a few...

Every politician accumulates troublesome baggage. For Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, it`s the Politburo. For. President Bush, it`s the 176 members of the House Republican Conference. In the Soviet bureaucracy, they`re...

Does the spotted owl have legs? Politically speaking, that is. You`ve probably never seen one around the family bird feeder, but out West the fate of the endangered species has...

Mitch Snyder was right. He believed all that weighty business we grew up with, the Sunday injunctions to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the homeless. For a...

That sound you`re hearing is the stirring of presidential ambitions among Democrats. A perceptible change in the fortunes of George Bush-the first since his inauguration-has bucked up flagging Democratic spirits...

Rep. Glenn Poshard, an Illinois Democrat, took his family to Independence Hall in Philadelphia and to the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg. Rep. Ben Jones, a Georgia Democrat, talked to...