Steve Daley

House Democrats on Thursday turned back a proposed constitutional amendment that would have prohibited flag desecration, reflecting their belief that the American people are less concerned about the issue than...

Last June, members of Congress growled and roared and postured over flag burning. The Supreme Court had thrown out a Texas statute outlawing the practice, and the House and Senate...

Apparently we will hear no more talk of Donald Trump for president. There was a time, before the bankers prepared to call in the paper on Trump`s borrowed empire, when...

There are damp palms and jittery political consultants as the midterm elections near. And, for once, it`s the folks in power who are doing the sweating. Results in a number...

When Bill Bradley looks at the future, he sees a mountain of American debt. Some Democrats wonder if he might want to jump off that mountain and run for the...

In an age of yawning deficits and tumbling barriers, of opportunities and challenges as stirring as any in American history, the 1990 political season approaches. Since the last time Americans...

Since he returned March 12 from seven weeks of addiction treatment, District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry has confounded his critics by waging an ambitious and effective public-relations campaign. Despite...

In the pictures for the front pages and the evening news, there are reasonable men perched on the White House settee, and they are smiling. George Bush has sued for...

When Willie Brown, the speaker of the California Assembly, talks about presidential politics in 1992, he sketches a future as contemporary as his adopted home state, as flashy as the...

President Bush endorsed former Federal Reserve official William E. Taylor Thursday as the likely successor to L. William Seidman as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. As the nation`s...