Steve Daley

The current of power that for nearly 50 years ran between Pennsylvania Avenue and Red Square is sputtering in irrelevance. On the day after the leadership of the Communist Party...

Last summer in Chicago, Mario Cuomo, the sometimes enigmatic governor of New York, was leading reporters around the Hyatt Hotel with a perfect sound bite. At a conference of governors,...

In a town bereft of ideas, the reverberations from Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan`s proposal to peel back most of the recent increase in the Social Security payroll tax have rattled...

All his public life, Marion Barry has been a symbol. For the residents of this city, denied elementary political rights until the mid-1970s, he represented home rule and empowerment. By...

He is the Republican Party`s excitable boy, all twang and rough edges, a 500-watt partisan politician burning amidst the kinder, gentler light of the Kennebunkport set. Like George Bush and...

Like it or not, 1990 is an election year. Any moment now, candidates of every stripe will jump-start the political process, puffing themselves up with the aid of their speechwriters,...

Much time and energy here are devoted to proving there is a significant difference between the Republican and Democratic Parties. Pretending that difference actually exists gives aid and comfort to...

The National Press Club will draw the veil on its investigation of H.L. Mencken until the holiday season passes. From beyond the grave, that ought to give Mencken, the Sage...

Suddenly, on the cusp of a new decade, the Democratic Party finds itself with a reason to go on. Two reasons, actually. The 1980s were not kind to Democrats. National...

M. Danny Wall could be a poster boy for the Reagan years, when the Federal City was a sheep ready for the fleecing. Chances are you`ve heard little or nothing...