Steve Daley

Candidate Bill Clinton was no slave to conventional thinking. To hear him tell it, the lame strictures of liberalism and conservatism held no sway over the Arkansas governor. Back in...

If you believe the sulfurous Republican rhetoric pouring out of Congress these days, the crime bill headed for final passage this week is nothing but an entitlement program for felons....

When in doubt, Bill Clinton has a town meeting. The president's affinity for facing a room crowded with curious citizens and television cameras is well-documented. He turned to town meetings...

Little noted, the Clinton health-care plan sank beneath the Whitewater surf last week. Sure, President and Hillary Rodham Clinton will be out campaigning this week for their proposed retooling of...

The idea that a president can make or break candidates in midterm elections is a relic of the era of straight-ticket voting, when political parties controlled the nominating process and...

It's going to be like this for two full terms. President Clinton will survive the Whitewater controversy for two reasons. He has a vision of what he wants to be...

Congress stopped short of recruiting English actress Emma Thompson and the moviemaking team of Merchant-Ivory last week when it staged a made-for-cable-TV, "Oxford-style" debate over health-care reform. The two-hour event,...

Dear Sen. George Mitchell: We've never corresponded, but after you announced your retirement from the Senate about 10 days ago, I noticed you put yourself in the running to be...

There were all those presidential trips to the clinics in Rochester, N.Y., the nursing homes in Georgia and the long-term care programs in Minnesota. There was a speech to Congress...

Why is Sen. Paul Simon running with this crowd? Last week the Illinois Democrat took to the streets to gin up support for his proposed balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution....