BY NATHANIEL BATCHELDER The irreplaceable rail hub at Oklahoma City’s Union Station can still be saved by relocating one section of the new Interstate 40...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to be re-elected after coming out, is right in telling gays not to abandon the president. As Frank put it, “The notion that if someone doesn’t agree with you 100%, then you shouldn’t be supportive of him – versus someone who disagrees with you […]

BY DANNY M. ADKISON Two former legal combatants announced recently that they would be putting aside their differences and uniting for a greater cause. A...

BY JOE CONASON Campaigning to build the widest possible consensus for reform of the nation’s health care system, Barack Obama told the delegates of the American Medical Association [AMA] that he wants their support, too. Persuasive and always polite, the president did not mention the embarrassing truth about his hosts – namely, that the AMA […]

BY FROMA HARROP This has been a tough week for the hopeful ones who believed President Obama’s vow to break with the old politics. Every day, it seems, the president caved in to another Democratic interest group working against the public weal. Let’s start with the mayors’ conference just ended in Providence, RI. One hundred […]