Steve Daley

Millions of Americans woke up last week to a future that included Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the raving, rheumy-eyed Russian nationalist who triumphed in last week's parliamentary election. By all accounts, Zhirinovsky...

Around the White House, chestnuts are roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost and Bob Dole may be nipping at Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care plan, but in recent weeks the...

Last week, the Democratic Party withdrew its lawsuit against Edward Rollins, the voluble Republican political consultant who talked his way into a four-alarm scandal after he helped Christine Todd Whitman...

Members of Congress and players in the Clinton administration cleared out of town over the Thanksgiving weekend, many of them longing to spend a few days on the couch not...

The image of President Clinton as the bungee-jumping chief executive, the cheeky undergrad who snoozes through the semester and pulls an all-nighter to wrap up the term paper was enhanced...

Ed Rollins has a good memory. He is a bright and engaging man, wise in the ways of American politics, a first-generation Reagan Democrat, and a fan of the prizefights...

In the fall of 1989, Democrats Jim Florio and Douglas Wilder were elected governors of New Jersey and Virginia respectively. There wasn't much else on the political calendar in that...

Few burgs are as easily titillated as this one. Sex scandals in Washington are generally room-temperature affairs, too often filled with lumpy legislative Lotharios and superannuated exotic dancers with names...

We are informed, by analysts, columnists and professional hand-wringers, that the citizens of Los Angeles are "relieved" by the preposterous disposition of the criminal cases against Damian Williams and Henry...

The sand is shifting beneath Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, and the feeling here is that the Clinton administration may soon have to deal with a full-blown, Cabinet-level scandal. In a...