Steve Daley

President Clinton's political fate is in the hands of nearly 200 members of Congress, most of them Democrats, all of them meeting behind closed doors on Capitol Hill. Now there's...

Consider Bret Schundler, young Republican. The newly minted mayor of Jersey City was a face card at last week's Republican National Committtee meeting in Chicago. In Republican circles, Schundler, 34,...

Just a few weeks ago, an astute political observer writing in The Washington Post suggested that abortion rights was the fastest-fading issue on the political horizon. Indeed, 20 years after...

It was a Senate debate that might have been fit for a Capitol Hill novel or for impressionable youth in the nation's civics classes. This was, after all, a controversial...

Ross Perot's shelf life as a political force has been extended by President Clinton's stumbling start and the predictable naysaying of the Republican Party. As Clinton dithers and Republicans obstruct,...

President Clinton has shown a willingness, even an eagerness, to make enemies of his friends. Since taking office, Clinton has made a habit of testing those who backed him, particularly...

He should have hired Mark Shields. President Clinton's decision to hire Republican trouble-shoooter David Gergen (half of PBS' "Gergen & Shields" team) as his resident explainer is being hailed around...

Here's a good rule: If you're in a hole, stop digging. The Clinton administration hasn't learned that rule, in the same way it hasn't learned the rule about the $200...

Vietnam is never far from Bill Clinton's thoughts, and the seeming inevitability of American involvement in Bosnia must chill the heart of the new president. A child of his times,...

As a comedian, it turns out President Clinton is an exploding cigar. Last weekend, at a dinner with 2,400 of his closest friends in the Washington press corps, the new...