Steve Daley

The sign in the health food store in fashionable Georgetown read: ''Open Easter Sunday, Closed Earth Day.'' The environmental bandwagon, this season`s Hands Across America, this spring`s Live Aid, is...

With her campaign for the U.S. Senate idling, Rep. Lynn Martin has tried to accelerate events with a little political gamesmanship on the environment. Shortly after Sen. Paul Simon joined...

In the spring of 1986, 30 months before the 1988 presidential election, Gary Hart had already said yes and Mario Cuomo had already said no. George Bush had his campaign...

Wherever he looks, Rep. Gus Savage sees weakness. It keeps him strong. Alternately whining and yelling, asking for the fundamental fairness he will not give to others, the man from...

Five years ago when Ronald Reagan was at the height of his powers, a group of prominent and ambitious national Democrats stepped out on their own, forming a rump organization...

The notion came from Rep. Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat under investigation by the House ethics committee for his involvement with a gay hustler. That noted, it should be said...

Down in Texas, the white-hot, throbbing issue in the governor`s race is whether state Treasurer Ann Richards, a silver-haired grandmother with a sharp tongue, ever smoked a little reefer in...

As a public figure, Jesse Jackson provokes a storm of human emotions. Time spent in his presence can evoke awe and anger, often simultaneously. He is a political force of...

They are weary of the land-of-fruits-and-nuts jokes hereabouts, weary of cold-weather politicians using California gold to finance Washington ambitions. With some exceptions, Republicans and Democrats in California are determined to...

The savings and loan on Main Street is up on blocks. There`s poison in the Perrier. Donald and Ivana are in Splitsville. Mike Tyson lost to a guy named Buster....