Meet the Press (tv program)

by Mark Silva A 100-day campaign for the White House opens today, with Election Day just 99 days away. And today, the presumptive nominees of the major political parties will appear back-to-back on the Sunday morning news-talk show circuit: Sen.......

by Mark Silva If Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have pared their short lists for running mates as much as confidants and speculators say they have, they are down to a very short list indeed: With names such as......

by Frank James The moderators for the three presidential debates and the one vice presidential debate have been named. They are, in short, the usual suspects. Moderating the presidential debates will be Jim Lehrer of Public Broadcasting's News Hour; Tom.....

by Frank James What to make of this dust-up over whether Sen. John McCain was or wasn't in the "cone of silence" before he went on stage for the civil forum on the presidency at Saddleback Church Saturday night? For......

by John Crewdson The Swamp watches the Sunday talks, so you can clean out the basement and argue with your spouse over whether to finally throw away those '60s L.P.s. Tom Brokaw shows us that, even without the departed Tim......

by Christi Parsons Barack Obama says he's happy to see recent reductions in violence in Iraq, but he's not giving sole credit to the troop surge he opposed. In fact, to "try and single out one factor in a messy......

We call it the "nerd prom," hoping that a dose of irony will inoculate us. But there's no use denying it: The White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner is a deeply narcissistic event. I realize I'm jumping on the bandwagon late here...

We in the print media, temporarily under siege — will not be castigated in this article. Lets concentrate on the medium watched by most Americans: cable and network news. Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Florida senator Marco Rubio was...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama says we will change our approach to gun violence -- some other day. Near the site of the massacre in Newtown, Conn., Obama said on Sunday night that he will take action "in the coming weeks" to prevent future carnage -- a...

Newtown, Connecticut, was full of grief, full of horror and -- despite the emergence of new details -- full of questions Sunday, two days after a school shooting massacre rocked the New England community. Here are some of the latest developments about...

When the National Rifle Association promised "meaningful contributions" to prevent another massacre like the recent horror in Newtown, Conn., I didn't expect much, but I hoped for more than what we got. After an allegedly mentally ill gunman killed 20...

If you want to understand why conservatives have lost faith in the so-called mainstream media, you need to ponder the question: Where is the Benghazi feeding frenzy? Unlike some of my colleagues on the right, I don't think there's a conspiracy at work....