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I've watched plenty of political debates through the years, but never one that kept me at the edge of my seat as much as last night's Obama-Romney Round 2. If C-SPAN did the Instant Classic thing like ESPN, this one......

Was President Barack Obama really joking at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner? Or was he showing, as I suspect, early signs of the second-term blues? It's fashionable for critics — especially if they didn't get invited...

According to legend, outside of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, at the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a Mrs. Powel asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin answered, "A republic, if...

Having just observed dozens of my fellow citizens standing in line for more than an hour to vote, I started to feel good about the country again. Some 430,000 Marylanders took advantage of five days of early voting this year, so many that Sandy Rosenberg,...

It's one of Mitt Romney's favorite lines: America needs a businessman in the White House. It's "a basic qualification" for the job, he said in his speech at the Republican convention last month, "one that's essential to [the] task." But what does history...

Apparently, a lot of people consider President Obama to be bumblingly inarticulate. "The guy can't talk his way out of a paper bag!" a reader wrote to me recently. "Sarah Palin is a brilliant speaker. It's the president whose sentences are undiagrammable,...

White House Correspondents Dinner 2013 Saturday, April 27 C-SPAN, 6:30pm ET (red carpet coverage on E! Online at 6pm) It's not often you want to make sure you're watching C-SPAN on a Saturday night, eh? But that's where you'll need to tune in to see the...

Friday's print column I'm such a news geek that not only did I listen to both sets of the arguments on gay marriage this week at the U.S. Supreme Court, I was annoyed that the audio wasn't posted until several......

Updated Feb. 11, 2013, 3:45pm CT President Barack Obama will be delivering the 2013 State of the Union address — the fourth of his time in office, and the first of his second term as president — to a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, Feb....

Michelle Obama did a walkthrough Monday for her speech Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention. Photo credit: Jason Reed/Reuters THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: A few changes in coverage of the Democratic National Convention, which starts Tuesday in...

Highlights on the TV schedule today: 1. Michelle Obama headlines the Democratic National Convention from Charlotte, N.C. ABC, CBS and NBC devote the 10 p.m. hour to the conclave. You'll find more extensive coverage on cable news, PBS (which starts at 8 p....

Updated Aug. 27, 2012, 12:50pm CT Several news outlets will be broadcasting the 2012 Republican National Convention, which runs Aug. 27-30, at which Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (both pictured above, at an earlier date) are expected to receive the official...