Teresa Heinz Kerry

Arguably the most telling piece of information in the FBI files on Sen. John F. Kerry is his speech at the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Sept. 30, 1971. He was at the height of his success as a spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, a motley,...

Joe Lieberman, his presidential hopes crushed by defeats in seven states, withdrew from the race for the White House Tuesday. The decision ends an odyssey at the summit of national politics that began in August 2000, when Al Gore tapped him for vice...

Not to get spiritual on you (no danger of that in this little corner of the ether) but several Biblical stories came to mind on the final day of the convention. First: As Teresa Heinz Kerry was speaking to the tambourine caucus, I saw a woman rise out of...

This didn't take long. You don't even need to say, "Shove it," any more. You just say, "Teresa Heinz," and everyone knows what you mean. I barreled up to a former celebrity peace activist--Jane Fonda's ex-husband Tom Hayden--to ask a couple of...

A busy tattoo and piercing parlor seemed as good a place as any to listen to young voters talk about presidential politics. So, I followed the green and orange neon sign to the basement of Body Ritual here. Unfortunately, it turned out I was doing most...

Jane Byrne, the Mt. St. Helens of City Hall, is spouting off-again-on every topic imaginable, from politics to pantyhose. The tiny, blond dynamo always has an opinion. It might not be the same as yesterday's opinion, but . . . THAT'S THE GIST of the...

Democratic presidential hopeful John F. Kerry today chose John Edwards, a fellow senator who was his strongest opponent during the primaries, as his running mate. In picking the 51-year-old senator from North Carolina, Kerry chose someone whose high-...

Betty Kinder sees the world turned upside down--fear at home, morals in a downward spiral, and things she never imagined suddenly turn up in the privacy of the voting booth. "Whoever thought we'd be voting about letting two men and two women get married?...

Early one evening in the fall of 1984, John F. Kerry was flying home from a campaign stop in western Massachusetts when his helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing. An engine light signaled trouble, so the pilot touched down in an open field...

"He even looks dashing in a Santa suit." -- Elizabeth Edwards, introducing John Edwards "USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!" -- chanted by the delegates after a corps of retired generals and admirals took the stage to endorse John Kerry -- Los Angeles Times staff...

By the time the voting is over Monday night, somebody from Weight Watchers or Slim-Fast is going to have to do an intervention. The scary, gross underbelly of the Iowa caucuses is the stuff all these insanely enthusiastic campaign volunteers are eating....

For a state with the motto "Live Free or Die," there's been a shocking lack of freebies in the closing days of the nation's first presidential primaries here. Rock the Vote, the effort to get young people involved in the political process, was giving...