FRANK P. BELCASTRO Dubuque, IA A bipartisan Senate report named former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top officials directly responsible for sanctioning torture. Rumors in...

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD This writer finds himself regretfully drawn into this thing we have going again about “Christmas.” Unfortunately, for too many this has...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH   Energy czar-designate Carol Browner’s husband does it. So does Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Tom Daschle’s wife. Congressman John Dingell’s wife has been doing it for years.   Should they all be forced to stop and go home and bake some of those chocolate-chip cookies, the very mention of which got […]

BY JOE CONASON   Caroline Kennedy made her political debut in Manhattan almost exactly 10 years ago, when she showed up as the surprise speaker at a “teach-in” against the impeachment of Bill Clinton at New York University Law School. Her speech on that occasion was not memorable, nor did she display great passion as […]

BY ARNOLD HAMILTON The numbers are worse than we thought: State lawmakers will have $309.6 million less to spend next year than they had last...